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Dedalus Prime: We’re moving into the golden age of cloud computing | #reinvent
Mauricio Fernandes, President of Dedalus Prime, discussed Brazil’s cloud market and his company’s partnership with Amazon with theCUBE host Dave Vellante, live at the AWS re:Invent conference. Dedalus is “very well-known in Brazil,” Fernandes started, explaining the company used to have a local data center with 2000 servers. Later they realized “cloud computing is the future, ...
What AWS Kinesis launch means for Cloudera + rivals | #reinvent
Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly and theCUBE hosts John Furrier explored the shifts in the Big Data industry that Amazon is now creating with it’s existing and new cloud services and tools, live at the AWS re:Invent conference. “AWS pretty much has the entire Big Data workload taken care of,” Kelly said, explaining that Redshift successfully ...
Kinesis shows potential for Industrial Internet + automation, says analyst | #reinvent
Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly discussed the Big Data related announcements and trends highlighted during the AWS re:Invent conference, with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier. Kelly stated most Big Data announcements were either on the analytics side, or Big Data management in the context of reaching enterprise grade level, focusing on reliability, backup, and ...
AWS keynote : Powering up Dropcam cloud, metadata + more | #reinvent
Wi-fi video monitoring and cloud recording company Dropcam showcased their use of AWS during the keynote of this year’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. Dropcam CEO Greg Duffy explained that the idea for the company started with his father’s attempt to capture video footage of a dog on his lawn. The company aims to ...
The data center is the foundation of any cloud |O #reinvent
Brian Fanzo, the Technology Evangelist at IO, discussed the data center supporting everyone’s cloud and the company’s views of software controlled data centers with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at the AWS re:Invent conference. “From IO’s perspective, the data center is the foundation of any cloud, the cloud has to live somewhere,” ...
AWS + Attunity offer near real-time, flexibility + scalability | #reinvent
Daniel Heacock, Senior Business Systems Analyst at Etix and Adam Haines, Data Architect for Federated Sample, discussed their experience as Attunity customers with theCUBE host Jeff Kelly, live at AWS re:Invent 2013. Etix provides “a software solution that enables venue owners to engage customers and sell tickets’ Heacock explained. Federated Sample is a technology company in ...
AWS helped create the world’s most cost-effective supercomputer | #reinvent
Jason Stowe, CEO, Cycle Computing, explained the company’s latest AWS use case which leveraged “Amazon Spot instances to create the most cost effective supercomputer in the world.” Stowe discussed this impressive results with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at the AWS re:Invent conference. The use case in question, explains Stowe, ran 2.3 ...
De-risk data driven decisions : Start with critical thinking | #IBMIoD
Michael Kowelenko, an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University, discussed decision making in the age of Big Data with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at the IBM Information on Demand 2013 event in Las Vegas. Kowelenko explained that while the focus was once on how data came together, and how we looked for aggregation of information through ...
Skip the manuals : Social biz data should be easy | #IBMIoD
Jeff Schick, Vice President of Social Software at IBM, explored the opportunities that organizations now have to expand their business through social software and social media strategies, with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at the IBM Information on Demand 2013 event in Las Vegas. IBM approached the social software market back in 2007 with ...
Big Data + Analytics : A $200 billion market | #IBMIoD
Dave Laverty, Vice President, Big Data & Analytics at IBM, explored the company’s Big Data go to market strategy with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at the IBM Information on Demand 2013 event in Las Vegas. IBM’s strategy, Laverty explained, “connects back to what we’re trying to do as an organization.” The company has major initiatives around cloud, ...