A smartly selected stream of structured data and a seamless rewards system comprise Cardlytics Inc.’s recipe for success. The financial data processor’s commercial Big Data stream consists of payment and  purchase data, translated from the “simple act of swiping your [credit] card,” which generates an immense amount of information. Cardlytics’ Chief Strategy Officer Craig Snodgrass ...

Buy into the Big Data hype, or risk being left out of a major cultural shift happening in today’s enterprise, said Wikibon.org analyst Jeff Kelly. Sharing his thoughts with theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante during SiliconANGLE’s day two coverage of Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s HP Vertica conference, Kelly framed today’s Big Data market in terms ...

After launching Digg, Inc. and Equinix, Inc., serial entrepreneur Jay Adelson is targeting DevOps with his latest startup, Opsmatic. He’s also planning to start a venture capital firm, although he’s revealing few details. Adleson says the experience he’s amassed from helping transform the Internet from clubby to commercial, as well as his own string of successes, gives ...

The conversations around the emerging Chief Data Officer (CDO) role, what it should entail, and the subsequent interest shown by enterprise organizations led to a pivotal decision by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to modify its annual symposium’s original focus from information quality to now include the CDO. “There’s a lot of talk about what ...

Over the last few years, the emergence of the Chief Data Officer (CDO) has become more clear. Initially, this new C-level role was more prevalent in healthcare, finance, government organizations. More recently, it has been bleeding into more commercial companies. In a live segment introducing Day Two of the MIT CDOIQ conference, theCUBE hosts Dave ...

The US Navy has been undergoing a long process of IT infrastructure and resource centralization, an initiative started over 12 years ago. Detailing their progress along this journey to add efficiency and effectiveness is James Meng, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Architectures, Standards and Integration for the Navy, participating in a live interview with theCUBE ...

Data is a key enabler in enterprise IT, but there are more aspects to consider before deciding what solutions or systems to implement. Deborah Nightingale, Professor of the Practice of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems and Co-Director, MIT Lean Advancement Initiative, recommends an approach that is “looking at the whole enterprise in a more ...

A strong focus on interoperability, data standardization and sharing, disciplines around IT architecture and frameworks pave the way to a portfolio of common good for government organizations. Pamela Wise-Martinez, Senior Strategic Enterprise Architect, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said her organization’s main concern is determining, at the highest level, what frameworks work best. ...

Converged systems have moved from a conversation of potential to real market opportunities. Currently, “20 percent of IT are demanding that they buy converged systems,” said Tom Joyce, SVP & General Manager of HP Converged Systems. In a live interview from this week’s HP Discover event, Joyce stated that customers wanting to make a decision ...

Another revolution in storage — that is how David Scott see’s Hewlett-Packard’s recently announced all-flash 7450 array. The SVP & General Manager of HP Storage met in a live interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante at HP Discover this week. Regarding flash in the storage market, Scott explained “the question on everybody’s ...