In commerce, in 2016, we have the sharing economy. In IT, we have what Bob Lord, chief digital officer at IBM’s Digital Business Group, calls the “builder society.” And of course IBM Corp. wants to be part of it. Lord discussed the builder society and the evolution of IBM with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and John Furrier ...

In this “Age of the Consumer,” financial services and insurance providers have had to learn to pick up the pace from a shuffle to a sprint. They have to provide the tools that allow customer to make their own decisions — now — rather than rely on salespeople to pitch information. That’s a radical turn ...

Chadd Kenney, CTO of the Americas at Pure Storage, Inc., said the all-flash solutions provider wants to go back to its original recipe: “Make storage simple, economical and super fast so you can harness the overall data.” Kenney and Sara Stuart, global sales lead for Oracle at Cisco Systems, Inc., sat down with John Furrier (@furrier) and ...

“The Amazon lead is over,” said Oracle CTO Larry Ellison during his keynote speech at Oracle Open World in San Francisco. Oracle has moved to the cloud and is aggressively competing with Amazon AWS in the market. Ashish Mohindroo, VP of the Oracle Cloud, gave John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts of theCUBE, from ...

The financial sector has embraced data in a big way. A new company, LogitBot, Inc., takes advantage of this convergence by providing a platform for financial insights. They call it an AI research assistant. At its core, LogitBot resembles many others platforms in that it ingests enormous amounts of data and distills it into insights ...

An operation with 115 production facilities that serves more than 150,000 customers every week generates a lot of data. AmeriPride Services, Inc., one of the largest uniform rental and linen supply companies in North America, aims to set itself apart from the competition by focusing on analytics and data. Steven John, CIO at AmeriPride Services, ...

A business may have the tools to access its data and even analyze that data, but making that information available and accessible to non-data scientists remains the challenge. Looker Data Sciences, Inc. aims to solve this dilemma with a data platform that lets data analysts have their way with data, and then easily exposes this data ...

We know data lurks in every nook of our increasingly mobile, “smart” lifestyles. Brendan Stennett and Bryan Smith, cofounders of ThinkData Works, Inc., saw a common access problem in getting to that data. Hence, the impetus for founding their company, which aims to put open data in the hands of people that can use it. ...

Auto manufacturer Toyota Motor Corp. didn’t start out as the leader in economy cars. But by the 1970s, the public recognized Toyota as the premier manufacturer of quality cars at a low cost. Steve Spear, author of The High-Velocity Edge, sat down with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Paul Gillin (@pgillin), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE ...

Among the many announcements at the 2016 HPE Big Data Conference, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) introduced Vertica 8, which offers a unified architecture and advanced in-database analytics capabilities that allow users to conduct sophisticated analysis at “industry-leading” scale and speed, regardless of where their data lives. Misha Davidson, director of Engineering, Vertica Systems, at ...