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The business of equality: how one company helps others implement diversity goals
While the movement to support women in tech continues to grow, more needs to be done to change the attitudes of organizations in supporting women, according to Lisa Skeete Tatum (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer at Landit Inc. The business of equality was the primary topic at today’s Professional BusinessWomen of California Conference in San Francisco, California. ...
Data automation and scheduling becoming mission critical to big data
Over the years companies have explored many avenues to handling and manipulating large amounts of data. However, with the advent and growth of the cloud and big data, the resulting explosion in the quantity of data being analyzed and the seemingly endless number of data sources, the need for fast, flexible and smart automation of the data workflow ...
Draining the swamp: how seamless data management is becoming mission-critical
A few years ago, Dave Vellante, co-host of theCUBE, made the suggestion that “data lakes” — the vast amount of data that companies store while not currently in use — are turning into “data swamps” because the technology used to manage them is not being leveraged properly. And according to Tendü Yogurtçu, general manager of big data ...
How one engineer is fighting workplace bias against women, and everyone else
Diversity and inclusion in the workplace are initiatives many modern companies are committed to, and VMware Inc. is no exception, according to Yanbing Li, senior vice president and general manager of storage and availability. The company has expanded its program in the past year from simply a focus on women to broader diversity efforts. “Being a part of ...
Telcos’ reluctance to harness new technology causing problems, says security VP
With the 5G network being put into place and the software application market really taking off, there is a general feeling in the telco industry that service providers are not acting fast enough to be able to take advantage of the new broadband capability in the short term. This is cause for some concern, as the average customer ...
Team science: Helping students and scientists make sense of data with new tools | #WiDS
Computer and data science in the past has been largely dominated by men, but as time goes on more and more women are becoming part of the industry, according to Miriah Meyer (pictured), assistant professor at the University of Utah. The entire field is changing as a whole, but to keep this trend going, it is ...
What is the ‘humanized internet’ and freedom-as-a-service? | #theCUBE
Monique Morrow has had a diverse career. She has undergraduate degrees in French and geography, but her parents encouraged her to embrace technology, so she later got a master’s degree in IT and telecommunications management. Morrow and her team are working on the idea of building a “humanized internet,” which will tackle one of the ...
The Collaborative Cancer Cloud: Intel and OHSU team up for cancer research | #theCUBE
In the fight to cure cancer, increased diversity between the clinicians and academic researchers and engineers and computer scientists is the key to finding the breakthrough that cancer researchers have sought for many years, according to Mary Stenzel-Poore, senior associate dean for research at Oregon Health and Sciences University. Stenzel-Poore recently discussed the collaboration in cancer research between ...