Despite recent moves to shift gears, Hewlett-Packard Co. still has a long way to go in its turnaround. In their intro segment for HP’s annual Discover event in Barcelona this week, theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier discussed the technology stalwart’s recent decisions, from splitting their enterprise business from the PC and printer consumer business, ...

  “Twitter is misunderstood on Wall Street and in the mainstream,” said John Furrier, SiliconANGLE cofounder, commenting on the recent results released by the social network. “What they have is an amazing real-time notification network,” Furrier explained. But, he added, the metrics used to evaluate it are not the right ones for Twitter Inc., but ...

  Data is at the center of all security advancements. It fuels better data protection strategies, helps determine where the threats are coming from, and is the new perimeter that needs to be secured, according to Chris Poulin, the Research Strategist for IBM’s X-Force Research & Development team. Poulin revealed that his organization tries to ...

  Every 20 years IBM goes through a transition, according to Ray Wang, the  principal analyst, founder and chairman of Constellation Research. The company’s current transition revolves around shutting down hardware and focusing on software, as well as shedding old businesses and building new ones. In his live interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and ...

A new way to acquire Big Data services has caused a bit of tension, according to James Kobielus, Big Data Evangelist at IBM. Previously, employees had to go through corporate IT to secure data services, but today, “cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) options give business people the means to acquire the capabilities on ...

  Enterprises should become data driven even though they are still in the infancy of adopting data within IT, according to CIO Strategic Advisor Tim Crawford. The AVOA executive expects that IT departments will become more involved with their respective organizations holistically, cautioning that a lot of work still needs to be done around cloud and infrastructure. In ...

  The Big Data transformation headed for the enterprise will be driven by the nature of applications and the new data repository. That means agile applications scaling horizontally will challenge the vertically-scaled notions of infrastructure, said former EMC President and theCUBE alumnus Rich Napolitano in a live interview with Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly at ...

Big Data market is a trillion-dollar market, and that value will be realized not because of the data scientists, but because they have rendered their skills to applications and software that regular people can use, according to Mike Olson, chief strategy officer, Cloudera Inc. At the Big Data NYC event hosted by theCUBE this week, Olson ...

  Hortonworks Inc. has a big chance of winning the race to an initial public offering (IPO) amongst top players in world of Hadoop and Big Data. Jeff Kelly, Principal Research Analyst at Wikibon predicted the company will go public in early 2015. “My gut tells me that we’re looking at the first half of ...

  Adopting new technologies has been difficult for many organizations because it requires changes in thinking. With Big Data and new ways of doing analytics, many traditional assumptions have been challenged in the enterprise, explained Ron Bodkin, President of Think Big, an advanced analytics company recently acquired by Teradata. One of these ways of thinking was the cost-centric ...