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Cost + Cloud are Splunk’s Challenges as Rivals Emerge, Analyst Says | #splunkconf
Dennis Callaghan, Senior Analyst of Enterprise Software, 451 Research, analyzed Splunk’s development, the broader IT management market, and the .conf event with theCUBE co-hosts Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante, live from Splunk .conf 2013. Commenting on the fourth annual .conf event, Callaghan said he was “getting a lot of good feedback, people love Splunk 6,” ...
Learn from Application Environment, Make Better Infrastructure Choices | #splunkconf
Karl May, Co-Founder and CEO of Vello Systems, discussed the company’s unique take on networking, converged infrastructures, DevOps, and other major trends with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at Splunk .conf 2013. “What Vello Systems does is provide the software platform to abstract all of the hardware underlay,” May explained. “We see the ...
The Next Billion-Dollar Software Company Will Come from Big Data World | #splunkconf
Matt Pfiel, Co-Founder and VP of Customer Solutions at Datastax, discussed the company’s partnership with Splunk, their recent progress, and his take on Big Data trends with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelley, live from Splunk .conf 2013 Pfiel explained that Datastax had a formal partnership with Splunk. “We’ve got a number of customers that ...
Cloudera Wants to Build the “iPhone of Big Data” | #splunkconf
Amr Awadallah, the CTO at Cloudera, discussed Big Data trends, the industry’s maturity level in this sector, and the company’s partnership with Splunk with theCUBE co-hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at Splunk .conf 2013. Commenting on the current state of the Big Data industry, Awadallah said “maturity and enterprise readiness are very important.” ...
3 Ingredients To Make a Happy Splunk User : Real Time Search, Usability + BI | #splunkconf
Matt van Deventer, Head of Development at Trade Me, discussed his business, considered the “eBay of New Zealand”, and its use of Splunk, with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at Splunk .conf 2013. Trade Me was founded in 1999 by Sam Morgan, a former consultant with Deloitte. It was sold it in 2006 ...
Without Data Analytics, Security Experts Can’t Do Their Job | #splunkconf
Jesse Trucks, a Cyber Security Engineer with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, discussed ORNL’s experience with Splunk and the latest security trends with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at the Splunk .conf2013. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, a multiprogram science and technology laboratory, is part of the U.S. Department of Energy that conducts basic and applied research and ...
DBAs Must Virtualize the Databases They Manage, Says EMC | #oow13
Anne McClure, CTO of Global Database Technologies at EMC, discussed database virtualization with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at the 2013 edition of Oracle OpenWorld this week. “We’ve been focused on the Vblock,” McClure said, the specialized system for high performance database workloads. Mentioning she has been in the database world for over ...
Demo: Adding QLogic FabricCache to Oracle RAC | #oow13
David Ard, OEM Marketing at QLogic, demoed a new collaborative solution with Oracle, FabricCache and Oracle RAC, discussing its performance benefits with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at Oracle OpenWorld 2013. (Full video of demo to follow – see our entire event playlist here.) The FabricCache solution is designed to “meet the ...
The EMC-Oracle Story : Open Infrastructure Strategy, In-Storage Flash + Enabling DBAs | #oow13
Sam Lucido, Technical Marketing Lead For Oracle, EMC, discussed the Oracle-EMC partnership and the day’s keynote with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live from Oracle OpenWorld 2013. Regarding the Day 2 OpenWorld keynote, “EMC recognizes that we need to enable DBAs and app owners,” Lucido said. There is an open infrastructure strategy where EMC ...
Automation Drives Data Protection-as-a-Service, Says EMC | #oow13
Darryl Smith, Chief Database Architect for EMC IT, discussed Data Protection-as-a-Service as part of the IT-as-a-Service trend with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live from Oracle OpenWorld 2013. Describing his OpenWorld experience, Smith shared he had “met with several customers, primarily I am here to get to learn,” going to sessions, talking to ...