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Servergy : Enabling the pace of information | #OCPSummit
“The data deluge needs to be addressed,”began his presentation William Mapp, the Executive VP of Servergy. Present on the Open Compute Project Summit stage in San Jose to speak about “Enabling the pace of information,” Mapp couldn’t help but quote Louis L’Amour: “Over time information will grow in volume and variety – and hopefully value.” ...
Connecting data sources : Focus on the business outcome | #BigDataSV
John Furrier and Jeff Frick, theCUBE co-hosts, broadcasted live from Day Three of #BigDataSV in Santa Clara, California, catching up with the thought leaders in the industry and the “tech athletes”, debating the news from Strata and trends and speculating on the future. Everybody seems to agree that this year’s Strata conference, an event that used ...
What’s missing from the enterprise cloud | #OCPSummit
The second day of the Open Compute Project Summit V was graced by the presence of Peter Krey, President and Founder of Krey Associates, an independent consultant for about 11 years, with a previous 25-year experience in core infrastructure engineering and application infrastructure inside financial services. As he disclosed, his clients consist of enterprise CIOs ...
HP Vertica + MapR : Analytics should be embedded in everything | #BigDataSV
John Furrier, SiliconAngle Founder and CEO, was joined in theCUBE at #BigDataSV by Colin Mahony (VP & GM of HP Vertica) and John Schroeder (CEO of MapR), to talk about their recent partnership, the state of the market and the challenges of the developers. Already a regular of the show, Mahony broke the ice: “We are really ...
Rackspace : Using OCP for better designs, faster | #OCPSummit
At the fifth edition of Open Compute Project Summit in San Jose, California, a very powerful example of the success of Open Compute was the use-case presented by the Rackspace team. Wesley Jess, VP of Supply Chain, and Aaron Sullivan, Director and Principal Engineer of Supply Chain, walked the audience through Rackspace’s experience as a ...
Perks of Open Bridge Rack : Customization + agnosticism | #OCPSummit
Joining the already impressive bill of speakers at the Open Compute Project Summit in San Jose, California, Brian Obernesser (Director of Data Center Architecture with Fidelity Investments) gave a short and powerful presentation simply titled the “Open Bridge Rack” – walking the audience through the process of designing this device, from inception through manufacturing. Fidelity ...
The best-of-breed makes a comeback to database architecture : “Big Data” is going away | #BigDataSV
For the first interview of Day Three of BigDataSV Conference in Santa Clara, California, John Furrier and Jeff Frick welcomed John Schweitzer to theCUBE. John is the EVP of Field Operations with DataStax, and he talked about the updates on his company, the in-memory movement, and the launch of the DataStax partner network. “What exactly is EVP?” asked Furrier. ...
Andreesen on: Predicting the unification of smartphone + datacenter supply chains | #OCPSummit
The first Fireside chat of Day Two at the recently concluded Open Compute Project Summit V was hosted by Cade Metz, Senior Editor of Business and Enterprise with Wired Magazine. He was joined on stage by two prominent guests: Marc Andreessen (Co-founder and General Partner with Andreessen Horowitz) and Andy Bectholsheim (Founder, Chief Development Officer ...
HBase + Active/Active replication technology = consistency and continuous availability | #BigDataSV
Wikibon’s CEO Dave Vellante and Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly co-hosted theCUBE segment dedicated to WANdisco technologies. Brett Rudenstein, Senior Product Manager of Big Data for WANdisco, was interviewed during Day Two of the Strata Conf. 2014 in Santa Clara, California, when he talked about the traction their product has had, and delivered a live ...
WANdisco defends HBase as complaints, standards emerge | #BigDataSV
Webcasting from #BigDataSV in Santa Clara, California, theCUBE veterans John Furrier and Dave Vellante welcomed Konstantin Boudnik for a quick interview regarding the big data trends and the involvement of big companies in the open source process. The former Yahoo and Cloudera architect and current Director of Advanced Technologies at WANdisco was asked for his view on Silicon Valley, Big ...