How is a major provider of broadband internet handling the digital transformation and big data? Hughes Network Systems LLC provides broadband internet to people in the countryside — both in the U.S. and in other countries, including South America, Brazil, Ecuador and Colombia. They have over 7 million satellite terminals, and they claim to have systems that are the most advanced and widely deployed around the world. Needless to say, they are dealing with a lot of data. How is Hughes contextualizing their data surge in a business environment that considers ?

“Data’s everything today,” said Karl Fosberg (pictured), senior director of systems integration at Hughes. “We’re really, really focused on trying to get good quality data by focusing on the source of the data as opposed to fixing it after it’s been moved into whatever platform it ends up.”

Fosburg spoke with Stu Miniman (@stu), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, during the ScienceLogic Symposium in Washington, D.C. They discussed how they’re managing they’re data as they look into the future of their business (see the full interview with transcript here). (* Disclosure below.)

Quality data, AIOps solutions

Because the main emphasis for Hughes is quality data, how are they doing this? It’s about trying to build data governance into the actual engineered products from the ground up, for starters. As an engineering company, this is key, according to Fosberg.

“If it’s not governed data, then you don’t get to look at it, and that’s really our focus,” Fosberg said. “We’re kind of in control of our own destiny there, and we’re really focused on pushing that back, because we think the benefits in the long run are going to be worth that investment to get clean data all the way back to the source.”

Hughes also has a hybrid strategy that involves the cloud using Google Cloud Platform, on-prem solutions, and the ScienceLogic AIOps platform to help make sense of all of the data. But the data sources live in their data center, not GCP.

“We’re working with our Google partners in this particular case to integrate the data that they can collect natively in their systems, bring it back in as actionable events into ScienceLogic platform, while keeping the vast majority of the data native to their platform,” Fosberg concluded. “No need to bring back application specific data unless we’re actually going to do something with it or if we need to cross correlated with other information.”

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the ScienceLogic Symposium. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the ScienceLogic Symposium event. Neither ScienceLogic Inc., the sponsor for theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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