Cloudera has been at the forefront of the open source development of Hadoop. In an interview conducted by John Furrier and Dave Vellante, Cloudera’s VP of Marketing, Alan Saldich, lauded his company’s technical foundation while discussing their current shift toward making the Hadoop platform more palatable for the Enterprise. To that aim, specifically, Cloudera recently ...

It seems in the past couple of years it has been chic to pronounce the demise of the mainframe as greatly exaggerated. And while previous reports cite a percentage representative of a commanding majority of IT executives favoring mainframes for their long-term objectives, the truth is that the developer corps familiar and comfortable with working ...

Wrapping up day 1 of SiliconANGLE’s coverage of #BigDataSV, Jeff Kelly joined theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante for a spirited conversation on where the industry is today and where it is headed in the not-too-distant future. Furrier kicked it off by commenting on how much of the talk on theCUBE today alluded to ...

John Furrier and Dave Vellante welcomed Prakash Nanduri back to theCUBE this evening. Only 90 days ago, Nanduri announced live on theCUBE at #BigDataNYC the launch of Paxata, a company he co-founded and currently helms as CEO. In the short time since, Paxata has seen broad adoption across their three business models: Pax Personal Subscription, ...

A hopeful sign for large-scale adoption of Big Data technologies, this year’s #strataconf has attracted a number of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and executives, as well as the expected cadre of developers, interested in the new technologies that will facilitate Enterprise’s embrace of Big Data strategies. Joining Dave Vellante and John Furrier on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE was ...

Over the past several years Big Data has been bandied about in boardrooms and tech blogs. Despite the conversations taking place, there has remained an operational ignorance for how the Enterprise can implement effective strategies around how best to capitalize on this new business paradigm. As SiliconANGLE has been reporting over the past several weeks, ...

Earlier this week at the OpenStack Enterprise Forum, Dave Wright, CEO and founder of SolidFire, shared his vision for the open source cloud platform for the very near future. In the keynote panel discussion that was moderated by Gartner’s Lydia Leong, Wright detailed SolidFire’s commitment to improving both private and public cloud storage solutions. “We ...

On Wednesday of this week, the OpenStack foundation invited tech professionals from start-up organizations and legacy Enterprise institutions to share their experiences with the open source cloud platform. The goal of the conference was to impart to those Enterprises yet to adopt a cloud strategy the ease with which they could deploy an OpenStack architecture ...

Held yesterday, the ‘OpenStack: Breaking into the Enterprise’ conference was clearly intended as a breakwater against the massive intended disruption to the cloud market brought about by Amazon Web Services and their pay-to-play model of public and private cloud and compute offerings. Devotees of OpenStack feel the onus is on them to convince the Enterprise ...

Five years ago, the buzzword emerging from the tech world was “cloud.” The somewhat ethereal concept promised to revolutionize how business gets done. And in an era when an idea or trend travels from conception to widespread accepted reality in seeming hyper drive, the working understanding and adoption of cloud strategies for the Enterprise has ...