Kicking off theCUBE’s coverage of Spark Summit East 2016, Dave Vellante and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, discussed a recent study performed by Gilbert, who is also a Wikibon analyst, to discover the key takeaways of where the enterprise stands with Big Data and storage (full video below). The study — comprised of ...

Regardless of the size of a business, most have one thing in common: using data science to improve business outcomes. Organizations want data to be user-friendly, intuitive, instantaneous, scalable and, most importantly, affordable. According to Gartner, Inc.’s 2016 Magic Quadrant for Advanced Analytics, “by 2018, more than half of large organizations globally will compete using advanced ...

What’s it take to run stadium Wi-Fi for nearly 80,000 fans, keep them fed and highly entertained? We hear from the tech experts who know a thing or two about scaling IT for today’s modern, connected stadiums like Levi’s in Santa Clara, CA, host of this year’s Super Bowl event. Built in 2014, with a ...

Partner collaboration continues to give businesses a leg up on the competition in a competitive economy. And, today, Visa, Inc. held its “Design. Build. Deliver.” event in San Francisco to announce a new way of collaborating with its partners to push further into the Internet of Things market. Building an open platform Recognizing that commerce ...

Fans are gearing up for the big game between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers. However, there is a great deal of technology behind the scenes at Super Bowl 50 to keep the fans engaged and safe. Super Bowl 50 will be taking place in the heart of Silicon Valley this Sunday at state-of-the-art ...

Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, wrapped up the day at RapidMiner Wisdom 2016 in New York City and analyzed the Big Data and analytics ecosystems and where they are headed. A question of profitability Noting that we are out of the “tire-kicking phase” of Big Data, predictive analytics and machine ...

Back when Ingo Mierswa, founder and chief technology officer of RapidMiner (Rapid-I, Inc.), was a data scientist consulting with telco companies, he was tasked with solving data science problems around churn. While delivering his results, he had difficulties communicating his findings to business people who did not get value out of  lines of code. Mierswa ...

Hortonworks, Inc., one of the leading providers of open-source solutions, is partnering with banks to help improve the Apache Hadoop open-source software framework and ecosystem. These partnerships are driving Hadoop to be a true application-level ecosystem that enables growth in areas such as data management, aggregation and governance capabilities. Riding the wave of Big Data ...

Zefflin Systems is a consulting practice that focuses on data center automation and cloud management solutions. Currently, Chet Golding, principal cloud architect for Zefflin Systems, is honing in on the telco industry as a new opportunity to learn from its community about best practices in the cloud. Golding spoke with Jeff Frick, cohost of theCUBE, from ...

Sean Roberts, former VP of development for Akanda, Inc., spoke with Jeff Frick, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, about the newly formed company and its mission to make OpenStack Neutron work. Neutron is an OpenStack project to provide “networking as a service” between interface devices managed by other OpenStack services. Assisting open-source networking Akanda provides ...