Sungard customers struggle with how to leverage Big Data and how to get the most of the agility and scalability of such tools, according to Wade Alt, senior VP of Global Channels, Marketing Strategy and Solutions for Sungard Availability Services. Sungard partners with EMC to deliver “secure, scalable, resilient IT infrastructure platforms that can grow as customers’ businesses grow,” Alt said during an interview with theCUBE during EMC World 2015.

How to gain insight from data

John Cardente, engineer and CTO for EMC, also spoke to theCUBE and explained how EMC’s Business Data Lake can help customers gain insight from data.

“The concept combines applications, analytic, and data,” he said. “Our philosophy is that if you attack just one of those, you’re not solving the problem and enabling customers to get insight from their data. We take our existing technologies, which are capable of plugging into the Big Data environment, and enhance them with various technologies to build a platform and an infrastructure. Customers can then integrate these technologies together to build an environment quickly with reliability and security.”

The benefits of working with the Federation

Sungard, which partnered with EMC before its Business Data Lake concept arose, has benefited many-fold from working with the EMC Federation.

“Working with the Federation gives us speed by having an integrated platform ready to go,” he said. “This allows us to work with customers on what their outcomes are. We get it to market faster and get business results faster.”

Visit emc.com/bigdata for more information on Business Data Lake.

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