In recent years, the co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s live roving news desk, interviewed many of the most insightful and knowledgeable tech industry luminaries on-sight at various conferences and events—executives from Andre M. Boisvert of Actian Corp. to Bill Inmon of Forest Rim Technology, Inc. to Christine Birtel of Wells Fargo & Co..

Some of the most memorable interviews happened at events such as BigDataSV, Hadoop Summit, MIT CDOIQ Symposium, Tableau Conference and AWS Re:Invent.

For this series of 2014 Reflections, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier, Dave Vellante, David Floyer, Jeff Kelly and Stu Miniman take a look back to remember their favorite theCUBE segments from the past year or so.

Kelly‘s favorite interviews included ones with Andre M. Boisvert, John Halamka, Bill Inmon, Kabir Shahani, David Saul, Oliver Ratzesberger, Abhishek Mehta, John Williams, Bryson Koehler and Christine Birtel. Check out the interviews in their entirety below (listed in no particular order).

 

1. Andre M. Boisvert, Board Member at Actian, at BigDataSV 2014

 

Andre M. Boisvert, Board Member at Actian, spoke to Vellante and Furrier at BigDataSV 2014. Here, Boisvert discusses the innovations that are springing up in the Big Data industry including the culture, technology and leadership as seen surrounding Big Data on a high level but he also touches upon how the innovation has affected DevOps as well.

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2. John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, at MIT CDOIQ Symposium 2014

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John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), spoke to Vellante and SiliconANGLE editor Paul Gillin at MIT CDOIQ Symposium 2014. Here, Halamka discusses multiple topics including the private and public cloud, healthcare and the ways in which SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) enable better patient care, the changing role of the CIO, and cloud services provisioning.

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3. Bill Inmon, President and CTO of Forest Rim Technology, at MIT CDOIQ Symposium 2014

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Bill Inmon, the “Father of Data Warehousing” and President and CTO of Forest Rim Technology, spoke to Vellante and SiliconANGLE editor Paul Gillin at MIT CDOIQ Symposium 2014. Here, Inmon (who is credited with writing the first book about data warehousing as well as coining the term) discusses how his company has set out to make unstructured corporate data easily available for analysis. He explains how his company discerns the meaning of raw text by its context (using contextual analysis) rather than just its content.

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4. Kabir Shahani, VP of Tech & Applications at IMS Health, Inc. at AWS Re:Invent 2014

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Kabir Shahani, VP of Tech & Applications at IMS Health, spoke to Kelly at AWS Re:Invent 2014. Here, Shahani discusses where his company’s 10+ terabyte proprietary database gets its health data, what IMS Health’s four business apps allow their customers to do, what drove the company’s decision to get into the application business, what Amazon, Inc.’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) allows his company to do, and how his company deals with compliance issues when using a third-party cloud like AWS.

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5. David Saul, Senior VP and Chief Scientist at State Street Corp., at MIT CDOIQ Symposium 2014

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David Saul, Senior VP and Chief Scientist at State Street, spoke to Vellante and SiliconANGLE editor Paul Gillin at MIT CDOIQ Symposium 2014. Here, Saul discusses how the financial services sector is seeing a sharp increase in the number of chief data officers (CDOs) at the top of the business, but also how some companies, including State Street, are still going against the flow—and succeeding. He explains how it’s his task—not a CDO’s—to address the rapid growth in unstructured information throughout his organization.

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6. Oliver Ratzesberger, Senior VP of Software at Teradata Corp., at Hadoop Summit 2014

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Oliver Ratzesberger, Senior VP of Software at Teradata, spoke to Furrier and Wikibon‘s Jeff Frick at Hadoop Summit 2014. Here, Ratzesberger discusses why the Hadoop world should focus on business outcomes (as cool visualizations and queries are nothing if the data does not generate value for the organization). He continues that the new conversation on Hadoop’s business outcome should be the new focus of the industry.

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7. Abhishek Mehta, CEO of Tresata, Inc., at BigDataSV 2014

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Abhishek Mehta, founder and CEO of Tresata, spoke to Furrier and Kelly at BigDataSV 2014. Here, Mehta discusses the challenges involved with being an entrepreneur. He also pinpoints Big Data trends and the blind spots of the industry.

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8. John Williams, Senior VP of Technology at TrueCar, Inc., at Hadoop Summit 2014

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John Williams, Senior VP of Technology at TrueCar, spoke to Furrier and Kelly at Hadoop Summit 2014. Here, he discusses how Big Data, machine learning and data analytics have transformed TrueCar’s business model. He explains how the economics of data storage have changed and how the opportunities to monetize data over an infinite timeline are, well, infinite. He also discusses how his company uses mobile and gamification to improve the customer experience, as well as what his company’s database infrastructure looks like.

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9. Bryson Koehler, EVP, CTO and CIO at The Weather Channel, at AWS Re:Invent 2014

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Bryson Koehler, EVP, CTO and CIO at The Weather Channel, spoke to Furrier and Kelly at AWS Re:Invent 2014. Here, Koehler discusses how The Weather Company (which owns The Weather Channel) uses Big Data, data analytics and data visualization in its business. He points out how weather impacts over a third of the gross domestic product (GDP) around the world every day and there is nothing that isn’t impacted by it at some point. He discusses how the weather business has evolved into a Big Data technology business that helps people understand consumer behavior. He then describes the infrastructure that his company uses in its business.

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10. Christine Birtel, Senior VP of Wholesale Internet Solutions, Customer Insights & Analytics at Wells Fargo at Tableau Conference 2014

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Christine Birtel, Senior VP of Wholesale Internet Solutions, Customer Insights & Analytics at Wells Fargo, spoke to Furrier and Kelly at Tableau Conference 2014. Here, Birtel discusses how Wells Fargo, with the help of Tableau Software, Inc., is moving beyond financial services and provides data services to its clients. After collecting and making sense of data, she said the company found several opportunities for sharing that data with the clients that generated it to begin with, helping them better understand their organizations and improve their business. Here, she explains this new line of business.

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Photo of Christine Birtel courtesy of theCUBE

All of the videos courtesy of SiliconANGLE