UPDATED 11:00 EDT / MAY 25 2017

NEWS

Exploring Big Data as a Service at Qubole’s inaugural event

How are companies building out their big data platforms for current self-service trends and automated offerings? What industry lessons have been learned and what challenges remain?

Looking to answer these questions and others, SiliconANGLE is at the Data Platforms Conference 2017, which is currently underway in Phoenix, Arizona, with exclusive commentary and interviews from our roving news desk, theCUBE.

The Data Platforms Conference, presented by Big Data as a Service company Qubole Inc., claims to be the first industry conference focused exclusively on helping data teams build modern, self-service big data platforms.

With an additional $30 million in funding and what it’s called “exponential growth” last year, Qubole’s riding the momentum of high-profile clients and notable use cases, including Lyft Inc. and Scripps Health. With 50 percent growth to its team and a big boost to its sales and marketing departments, Qubole’s inaugural event comes at a time when the company faces the challenges of global expansion in Europe and Asia, where data management regulations can vary vastly across regions.

Enabling big data build-outs is a trying task for many platform providers, as current trends for the Internet of Things and applied cognitive computing force modernization methods for enterprise infrastructure. Recent months have seen numerous players unveiling updates to their data platforms, including Hortonworks Inc., MapR Technologies Inc., Zensar Technologies Ltd. and others.  

About Data Platforms

Keynote speakers at Data Platforms 2017 include Ashish Thusoo, co-founder and chief executive officer of Qubole; Dr. Karthik Ramasamy, co-founder of Streamlio; Shrikanth Shankar, director of engineering, data analytics infrastructure at LinkedIn Corp.; Tripp Smith, chief technology officer at Clarity Insights; Andy Sautins, technical manager at Google Inc.; Joydeep Sen Sarma, co-founder and head of Qubole India; and Oskar Austegard, director of data solutions at Gannett Company Inc.

Other keynote presenters include Karthik Subramaniam, manager of data engineering and science at Under Armour Inc.; Rakesh Soni, director of data analytics practice at Intersys Consulting Inc.; Colin Riddell, big data platform architect and engineer at Epic Games Inc.; Wade Warren, senior vice president of engineering and technical operations at Wikia Inc.; Jeff Barr, chief evangelist at Amazon Web Services Inc.; and Vinay Kumar, senior director of product management at Oracle Corp.

How to watch theCUBE interviews

There are various ways to watch all of theCUBE interviews that will be taking place at the Data Platforms Conference 2017, including SiliconANGLE TV and YouTube. You can also get all the coverage from the event on SiliconANGLE.

SiliconANGLE TV

You can watch all of theCUBE’s exclusive interviews and commentary from Data Platforms on the dedicated SiliconANGLE TV page.

Watch on the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel

All of theCUBE interviews from Data Platforms 2017, which runs until May 26, will also be loaded onto SiliconANGLE’s dedicated YouTube channel.

Cubecasts

SiliconANGLE also has podcasts available of archived interview sessions, available on both SoundCloud and iTunes, which you can enjoy while on the go.

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE

Guests who will be interviewed on theCUBE at Data Platforms 2017 include keynote presenters Ashish Thusoo, Dr. Karthik Ramasamy, Tripp Smith, Joydeep Sen Sarma, Colin Riddell and Vinay Kumar.

Other guests include David Hseih, senior vice president of marketing at Qubole; Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman, technical intelligence manager for the office of the chief technology officer at Delphix Corp.; Arpit Gupta, vice president of analytics at PayU Group; Mick Bass, chief executive officer of 47Lining; and Saket Saurabh, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nexla Inc.

(* Disclosure: Some segments on SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE are sponsored. Sponsors have no editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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