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The growing necessity of adopting deep analytics | #BigDataNYC
As customers become more Big Data savvy, conversations around it are becoming less of a “techie” topic and more of a business topic. Customers are beginning to realize that Big Data and deep analytics is not some sort of new toy or concept for their organizations to play around with, but rather it is something that ...
Hadoop, Big Data ecosystem shifting, analysts say | #BigDataNYC
Hadoop has always been seen the “poster child” for Big Data, and indeed the vast majority of Big Data customers use it in at least some variation. But, recently, there have been some changes within the Hadoop ecosystem, as well as some outside competition, and it is creating permanent changes to the Big Data landscape. ...
Entertainment company uses Big Data to enhance marketing | #BigDataNYC
As the playing field for cable and broadcast media evolves, companies that deliver the content available through them have been forced to adapt. Not only is the medium that is used to offer that content itself changing, but so are the ways in which it is being delivered. Shiv Sehgal, product manager of the Media Mantra ...
Deep analytics: Machine learning new trend in Big Data, say analysts | #BigDataNYC
As the BigDataNYC 2016 event kicked off at the Mercantile Annex in New York, NY, Dave Vellante (@dvellante), Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), Peter Burris (@plburris) and George Gilbert (@ggilbert41), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, sat down to discuss what could be expected from this year’s event coverage. In particular, the analysts discussed the recent ...
The synergy of VMware and hyper-converged platforms | #VMworld
The ability to easily create virtualized resources is a fast-growing customer market. And Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) is partnering with VMware, Inc. on its hyper-converged platforms in order to quickly create state-of-the-art composable infrastructure. Cullen Ruegemer, senior director of Product Management at HPE, sat down with John Furrier (@furrier) and John Walls (@johnwalls21), co-hosts of theCUBE, from the ...
HPE embraces machine learning, key alliances | #SeizeTheData
The HPE Big Data Conference day two keynote opened with Jeff Veis, VP, HP Big Data Platform Solutions, HP Software, noting that some big announcements would be made during the presentation. Veis quickly moved on to introducing Robert Youngjohns, EVP and GM, Software at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE). And he immediately set the tone for the keynote, which was “where ...
Art meets Big Data: How DreamWorks is utilizing analytics in modern animation | #SeizeTheData
Over the years, animation has gone from traditional, 2D, hand-drawn artwork to software-designed, 3D projects utilizing full-scale computer rendering. DreamWorks Animation is at the top of the pack in this arena, and it is using Big Data analytics to help it produce the animation the public loves in the most efficient manner. Jeff Wike, head of Research and Development ...
How one sports retailer improved backup and recovery efficiency | #VMworld
PGA TOUR Superstore already has several high-tech customer tools and applications, but now it is also planning a major e-commerce expansion. Their IT partner, CompliancePoint, Inc., has been helping them accomplish all of this through enterprise using VMware and HPE storage solutions. Michael Anderson, director of IT at the PGA TOUR Superstore, and Michael Boone, VP of ...
How one company is bringing Storage-as-a-Service to enterprise | #VMworld
Many of the VMware, Inc. customers present at this year’s conference are using a fairly new offering in enterprise storage: Storage-as-a-Service. VMware itself has been attempting to get its own version of this type of service off the ground, but for now it is being handled through third-party providers, such as Zadara Storage, Inc. Nelson Nahum, cofounder and ...
How one institution adopted converged infrastructure to better serve an entire medical community | #theCUBE
A few years ago, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center (WFBMC) faced a problem fairly typical of older, very large healthcare organizations: modernization of aging IT infrastructure. As a large research institute and teaching hospital incorporating 125 medical facilities, 11,000 employees and nearly 1,000 physicians, it was especially sensitive to the the need to bring its IT capabilities up to speed and ...