Companies today receive and store more data in a day than they can typically process. The real key for businesses is in using data as a means to improve upon their business strategy. And according to Shaun Connolly, VP of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks, Inc., his company can help businesses better manage and make use of their existing data.

Connolly talked with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the BigDataNYC 2016 conference about Hortonworks and how it utilizes data to strategize.

Testing the limits

Hortonworks is currently the only publicly traded company in its industry and has turned that unique factor into an advantage, Connolly said. Its outlook on strategy allows it to “push to the edge” of innovation, he added.

Along with constantly being on the lookout for new means of innovation, Hortonworks also wants to increase its cybersecurity and provide the most “secure site-to-site transmissions,” said Connolly.

Connected data architecture

Hortonworks allows customers to access data in the cloud and combine it with their on-premise data-center workloads. Most customers are looking for hybrid infrastructures, according to Connolly, and want as much optionality as possible.

A connected data architecture allows customers to access and migrate data across multiple platforms, without issue. It can help solve a multitude of use cases and “operations issues,” said Connolly.

The digital business

Companies today have to be well equipped to be a digital business. Customers want new ways of doing things as well as “software that’s easy to use,” said Connolly. Luckily, Hortonworks can provide an easy-to-use experience as advanced analytics and machine learning come more into play, Connolly stated.

Hortonworks can redistribute assets elsewhere as they continue to “automate the process as much as possible,” said Connolly. So, as businesses are increasingly pressured to use their data as an asset, Connolly said that Hortonworks delivers a means to do just that.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of BigDataNYC 2016.

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