Harriet Fryman, Director of Big Data & Analytics at IBM, discussed the company’s Big Data Analytics strategy and approach with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at the IBM Information on Demand 2013 event in Las Vegas.   Explaining IBM’s Big Data & Analytics, Fryman explained, “we’ve really looked at the four technology disruptors,” the social ...

Bill Schmarzo, the CTO, EIM Service Line for EMC, discussed the release of his book, Big Data – Understanding How Data Powers Big Business with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at #BigDataNYC 2013 in New York.   “The inspiration for the book really started three years ago,” Schmarzo said, with a conference session on Big ...

David Parker, Vice President at SAP, discussed his company’s Big Data strategy, the evolution of HANA, and enterprise data applications, with theCUBE co-hosts Jeff Kelly and John Furrier, live at #BigDataNYC 2013 in New York.   “First and foremost, we’re an application company,” Parker stated. SAP’s Big Data approach was powered by its customers who need ...

Hilary Mason, the famed Data Scientist in Residence with Accel Partners, discussed the evolution of data science in the past four years with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at #BigDataNYC 2013 in New York.   Asked what has changed in the past four years in data, Mason said “it is no longer a surprising ...

Sharmila Shahani-Mulligan, CEO and founder of ClearStory Data, discussed the company’s mission to turn data from disparate sources into insights available to all end users across corporations, with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at #BigDataNYC 2013 in New York.   “It has to get easier to consume data from many dissipate sources,” Shahani-Mulligan ...

Shaun Connolly, VP Corporate Strategy for Hortonworks, discussed the latest Hadoop and Big Data trends, as well as the company’s business model, with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at #BigDataNYC 2013 in New York.   “There’s been a first generation particularly in the Hadoop workloads,” Connolly explained. “We’re now in the next step of ...

Quentin Clark, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, discussed the company’s Big Data strategy, as well as their partnership with Hortonworks with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at #BigDataNYC 2013 in New York.   “We’re here here because we’re super committed to Hadoop,” Clark said, explaining that Microsoft is dedicated to help its ...

The world of gaming is still a tough place when it comes to women receiving the recognition they deserve. Although 49 percent of players are now women, they still are told that they are not “real” gamers, their geekiness being thoroughly questioned, as shown in this video (embedded below). Yet women have always played a ...

Nathaniel Collinsworth, Media Operations, Neustar, talked about the company’s experience building the UltraViolet platform around Splunk with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live from Splunk .conf. UltraViolet is described by Neustar as a cloud-based “digital rights locker” system for consumers, or as Collinsworth explains, “a centralized library platform.The idea is that we can disconnect your assets ...

Demetrios Lazarikos, IT Security Strategist & Thought Leader, discussed the evolution of security and the latest trends with theCUBE co-hosts Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante, live from this year’s Slunk .conf. “I grew up on the computer,” Lazarikos, who had his first computer at age 12, said. He has worked in the US Air Force and then the ...