Doug Foster, Executive Director, Research Computing and Enterprise Applications at Purdue University discussed the many applications of the just announced HP Moonshot technology with the Cube’s hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante at the New York launch event, exploring the impact on both the academic and business environments. From a researcher’s point of view, infrastructure ...

Bradford Stephens, CEO and Founder of Drawn to Scale, discussed database trends in Big Data and the concept of real-time and how it varies from one provider to another, with theCube hosts Dave Vellante and David Floyer of Wikibon, live from the Strata 2013 conference. Talking about the evolution of the field, Stephens mentioned that ...

“I am Forrest Gump, I have a toothbrush, I have a lot of data and I scrub,” Josh Wills, Data Scientist Cloudera, whimsically described his profession to John Furrier and Dave Vellante inside theCube, live from Strata 2013. He also added that while he thinks of himself mostly as a mathematician, a data scientist is a ...

theCube show hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante bring you the break down of top news and issues monopolizing Big Data conversations in day 3 of at Strata 2013. The story of the day is the Iranian hacker threatening to commandeer US drones, a development broken this morning by SiliconAngle’s John Casaretto. A relatively new Iranian hacker ...

“I am a big fan of data as a living, breathing thing,” said Michael Manoochehri, Developer Programs Engineer at Google, talking about the concept of data as code with theCube show hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante at Strata 2013. Google uses protocol buffers to move data back and forth, as people are currently starting to realize ...

The new twist of in-memory data grids is adding a ScaleOut Analytics software that allows for "parallel data computation into the data grid", which allows to "update fast-changing data and analyze it" within milliseconds, William Blain, Founder and CEO of ScaleOut Software explained in theCube, live from Strata 2013.

Strata 2013 Chair Alistair Croll discussed the day’s highlights in theCube, focusing on trends, interesting facts and issues involving Big Data, and a roundup of what has been going on at the conference (full video below). While using data is not a new concept, Big Data is actually new. Croll explained that what seemed utterly impossible ...

“We are here to solve customers Big Data problems with an integrated solution,” Chris Selland, VP of Marketing, HP Vertica, shared in theCube, live at Strata 2013. The conference marks Hewlett-Packard’s biggest presence in the space thus far, as the company has strongly focused on Big Data since the summer of 2012, integrating Vertica with Hardoop ...

The Cube hosted a live conversation at Strata 2013 on the HP – Cloudera partnership to provide a common Big Data solution with Sanjai Marimadaiah, HP Strategy & Product Development – Big Data Solutions, and Tim Stevens, VP of Business and Corporate Development Cloudera. The main reason for the partnership was customer driven, as both companies ...

Storage alchemist Steve Kenniston discussed Big Data trends, announcements and issues in theCube, live from Strata 2013. He explained that "data management of big data will be crucial to IT," as well extracting value from the data collected.