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Treasure Data : focus on the fun part | #BigDataSV

Hannah Smalltree, Director of Treasure Data, joined John Furrier and Jeff Kelly in theCUBE at BigDataSV 2014 to discuss the tremendous growth of Treasure Data and the current trends in the industry. Furrier noted the tremendous traction that Treasure Data enjoyed and wanted Smalltree to elaborate on that, explaining where it originated from. “TreasureData has a really unique ...

Solving hypercloud for enterprise IT | #IBMpulse

John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, traveled to IBM Pulse 2014 in Las Vegas to talk to the brightest minds in the industry about the optimization of the world’s business infrastructure and about asset management that could drive innovation and increase profitability. Chris O’Connor, VP of Strategy & Engineering for the Cloud & Smarter ...

BlueMix : the platform for unleashing innovation | #IBMpulse

Jerry Cuomo, VP & WebSphere CTO with IBM, joined John Furrier and Dave Vellante in theCUBE at IBM Pulse Conference in Las Vegas, to talk about Big Data, cloud and the focus on big applications. The interview kicked off with a couple of references on the live coding demo, which took place that same day. For ...

Data people : Transforming computation, technology + society

Held under the “Making Data Work” motto, this year’s edition of Strata Conf. in Santa Clara, California, brought together the leading minds in Big Data who are using it to drive business strategies, as well as the practitioners who collect, analyze and manipulate it. Joe Hellerstein, Founder & CEO with Trifacta and a Professor at ...

Cloud is not the silver bullet of data back-up | #IBMpulse

Jason Buffington, Senior Analyst with ESG, agreed to talk to Dave Vellante and John Furrier in theCUBE, covering a wide range of topics, from the new IBM Pulse event. They all noticed that “these tech shows have become more and more like Vegas shows,” resembling true Broadway productions. As an analyst focusing on data back-up, ...

Developers are where innovation happens | #IBMpulse

Adam Gunther, Program Director of Cloud Offerings with IBM, accepted John Furrier and Dave Vellante’s invitation to appear in theCUBE, where they shared with the viewers the origin of BlueMix, the big news at the IBM Pulse 2014 Conference and the business side of cloud. Furrier began by reiterating that ”Cloud equals growth” and noted ...

Predictions on the future data center : Limitless + contextual| #OCPSummit

The Open Compute Summit, now in its fifth edition, reunited in San Jose the tech professionals interested in hacking the conventional computer infrastructure and conversing over Open Compute. Greg Huff, CTO of LSI, one of the newest memebers of OCP, was a featured speaker on Day one, and his presentation delivered the LSI future vision ...

IBM BlueMix reveals new focus : Turn existing technologies into services | #IBMpulse

Steve Robinson, General Manager of Cloud Platform Services with IBM, joined John Furrier and Dave Vellante in theCUBE, during the last day of IBM Pulse 2014 Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The interview began with Furrier noting the modern era of enterprise, the importance of blending services and the relevance of agility, speed and cloud ...

The modern data center : integrated design, mass production + experience | #OCPSummit

During the fifth edition of Open Compute Summit, Jon Koomey (Research Fellow, Stanford University) moderated a Keynote Panel titled “Bringing Integrated Design, Mass Production, and Learning by Doing to the Datacenter Industry” where he invited on stage three illustrious speakers: Sherman Ikemoto (Director, Future Facilities), Kushagra Vaid (General Manager, Cloud Server Engineering, Microsoft) and Jim ...

IBM on retail market chasing Amazon, Role of cloud | #IBMpulse

Broadcasting live from IBM Pulse in Las Vegas, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante took the opportunity to talk to the thought leaders, the executives, analysts and the customers at the event, shedding light on the current issues in the tech industry. Furrier confessed he loved having analysts in theCUBE, because of their often ...