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HPE Ezmeral drives enterprise data transformation efforts, says CTO

The phrase “data is the new oil” seems to ring truer for companies and businesses worldwide these days. Enterprise data resources are immensely crucial to the profitability of the modern-day company — as such, it is rightfully protected at any cost.

Data transformation is the new wave of collection, processing and insight generation that forward-thinking companies are surfing currently.

“I spend about half of my time talking to customers and partners about where they are on their digital transformation journeys and where they struggle with this last phase where we start talking about bringing those cloud principles and practices into the data world,” said Matt Maccaux (pictured), global field chief technology officer, Ezmeral software, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. “How do I take those data warehouses, those data lakes, those distributed data systems into the enterprise and deploy them in a cloud-like manner?”

Maccaux spoke with Dave Vellante, host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio, during the HPE Discover event. They discussed Ezmeral, HPE’s latest data analysis tool for the enterprise. (* Disclosure below.)

The Ezmeral offering

Introduced in mid-2020, Ezmeral is a software portfolio designed to help organizations make the most of their computing with an edge-to-cloud strategy. As field CTO, Maccaux broke down the product’s definition, as well as its constituent parts.

“Ezmeral is a software platform for modern data and analytics workloads using open-source software components. And we came from some inorganic growth,” Maccaux explained.

He also delineated the component software parts that have been brought into the fold through mergers and acquisitions.

“We acquired a company called Scytale that brought us a zero-trust approach to doing security with containers. We bought BlueData who came with an orchestrator even before Kubernetes. They were orchestrating workloads using containers for some of these more difficult workloads, clustered applications, distributed applications like Hadoop,” Maccaux stated. “Finally, we acquired MapR, which gave us this scale-out, distributed file system, and additional analytical capabilities.”

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

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