Alan McStravick


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MySQL is “still in the running, and very vibrant” | #PerconaLive

At this week’s #PerconaLive event, SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE welcomed Robert Hodges for his first appearance to discuss how the company he helms as CEO, Continuent, has been working with the MySQL community to affect better and more effective clustering and replication solutions for larger companies that employ the open source database. Principal research coordinator at Wikibon, ...

Big Data is coming alive, sports leading the way | #SportsDataSV

Big Data is coming alive in a very real way in Northern California. SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier and Wikibon’s Jeff Kelly sat down with top figures of the professional sports teams that call the Silicon Valley area home and discussed how their teams have embraced emerging technologies aimed at achieving successful front office operations, providing enhanced ...

Amazon Web Services : A culture of innovation | #AWSSummit wrap up

There was a palpable energy at this week’s Amazon Web Services Summit in San Francisco and SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE was there. Wrapping our day’s coverage were co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Frick, who kept the information flowing over interviews and conversations with 14 guests throughout the broadcast day. A certainty confirmed by today’s summit, according to ...

The cloud war is a battle for hearts and minds | #AWSSummit

Cloudnexa, a Philadelphia-based company that provides cloud management strategies and services for their clients, learned just shy of their first birthday they had been selected as a premier consulting partner with AWS. They share this distinction with only 22 other companies globally. It’s safe to say the “Cloud War” is well underway. So when Cloudnexa ...

A tip of the hat to Capgemini |#AWSSummit

At this week’s Amazon Web Services Summit in San Francisco, the one concept that most everyone is walking away with is the fundamental paradigm shift resulting from the severe disruption of cloud computing, and more specifically AWS, has brought to the industry. SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier welcomed George Steele and James S. Kocsi to theCUBE to ...

AWS good for startups, but Flipboard sees many “staying in the cloud” | #AWSSummit

In July of 2010, a new application for the iPad was created with the intention of easily delivering user-friendly and artfully presented content and providing a seamless integration across social media platforms, allowing the user to discover and share content from a single application-based location. Today, we are all aware of Flipboard and the success ...

The future of Big Data : Open source v. proprietary |#BigDataSV

In last week’s companion to SiliconANGLE’s #BigDataNYC, theCUBE broadcast live from Silicon Valley, highlighting the ongoing maturity of Big Data for 2014 and beyond. John Furrier welcomed theCUBE alumni Bruno Aziza and Rishi Yadev for one of the more interesting conversations centering on the method and business model that will further advance the adoption of ...

Get ready for application defined networking | #BigDataSV

In the fast moving world of Big Data, a new idea has been born. Application Defined Networking is being pioneered by the company formerly known as Lyatiss. Cloud Weaver CEO and founder Pascale Vicat-Blanc joined theCUBE GM Jeff Frick at SiliconANGLE’s BigDataSV to talk about the new paradigm being explored by her company. Kicking off ...

Attunity: opening the valve on real-time data | #BigDataSV

In one of the later interviews on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE on day 2 of #BigDataSV, Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante welcomed Lawrence Schwartz. Schwartz is the VP of Marketing for Boston-based Attunity. In his interview, Schwartz detailed Attunity’s position in the market and shared information on their recent acquisition and where they see themselves going as ...

InfoObject: helping enterprise to navigate the unknown | #BigDataSV

Joining Dave Vellante and John Furrier on theCube at #BigDataSV this afternoon was Rishi Yadav, CEO of InfoObjects. InfoObjects serves their clients as an independent consultancy with no intellectual property. “We are in the business of building clients IP,” stated Yadav. “We use Hadoop to build customer applications for them.” InfoObjects works with specifically with ...