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The chief data officer: How is this role evolving? | #MITCDOIQ
As the Chief Data Officer (CDO) role becomes more and more of central importance to how companies understand and extract value from data and its growth, there are many questions still to be answered about how these businesses are defining and implementing this increasingly essential function. Dr. Jim Short, research director for the Global Information ...
Infor CEO Phillips talks expansion, diversifying within enterprise | #Inforum16
As a $3 billion-dollar company, Infor, Inc. is certainly an up-and-comer in the enterprise world these days. With strong growth and a respectable balance sheet, what makes it different, where is the company going, and what can we look for from it in the future? Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor, sat down with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and George Gilbert ...
How one company migrated its IT system based on user feedback | #Inforum16
Zahid Tractor & Heavy Machinery Co., Ltd., the flagship company of the larger Saudi Arabia-based Zahid Group, went to an internally developed IT system 30 years ago. With most of those original developers retiring, Zahid Tractor was faced with the question of whether to continue to maintain its existing system or change course and go with something ...
How Red Hat is tailoring OpenStack to fit … everyone | #RHSummit
Even though there have been no major changes announced to the OpenStack platform of late, it was still one of the most talked about subjects at this year’s Red Hat Summit. Red Hat plays a significant role in the development of the platform and is very proud of its contribution to the community. Radhesh Balakrishnan, GM of OpenStack at ...
Red Hat showing solid growth; poised for more, analysts say | #RHSummit
As the three days of the 2016 Red Hat Summit drew to a close, theCUBE analysts pointed out that this year’s show brought out a very interesting mix of people as well as ideas. “Going to space,” “helping to cure cancer” and “communication with doctors” were just a few the diverse topics discussed in the various keynotes. Stu Miniman ...
Innovative ‘Women in Open Source’ recognized at Red Hat Summit | #RHSummit
2016 marked the second year that Red Hat, Inc. has selected two women to receive the Women in Open Source award, which honors women from anywhere in the world who have made significant contributions to an open-source project or community — or to the open-source philosophy in general. Nominations are open, and after narrowing the ...
OpenShift diversified: How Red Hat has tailored its platform for everyone | #RHSummit
Red Hat’s OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) has been around for a number of years, but due to some recent rebranding, some may think the product has changed in some way. Has it? While OpenShift is still the same product based around Kubernetes and Docker container technology, it continues to be refined as cloud technology and customer needs evolve. ...
Containers and open source: How Red Hat is winning the market over | #RHSummit
As Red Hat, Inc. is a strictly open-source software company, a lot of talk has been centered around how the company will convince customers that a completely open-source container solution is better than a proprietary one. Paul Cormier, EVP of Engineering and president of Products and Technologies at Red Hat, joined Stu Miniman (@stu) and Brian Gracely ...
How one company is using open source to double its customers’ mobile business | RHSummit
Most retailers today stay a step or two behind when it comes to modern technology, especially on the mobile side. Sawyer Effect, LLC, a consultant for J.Crew Group, Inc., has been using Red Hat, Inc.’s open-source product Ansible, an IT automation engine, to get its customer’s mobile business up to speed and greatly improve its business. Oscar Gonzalez, principal ...
The darling of the open-source movement | #RHSummit
As theCUBE wrapped up day one of three days of wall-to-wall coverage at Red Hat Summit, being held at the Moscone N & W in San Francisco, Stu Miniman (@stu) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, discussed the takeaways from today’s events, how Red Hat, Inc. was positioned in the industry, and what they were expecting to ...