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The new conversation on Hadoop’s business outcome|#HadoopSummit
The Hadoop world should focus on business outcomes, as cool visualizations and queries are nothing if the data does not generate value for the organization. Oliver Ratzesberger, the SVP of Software at Teradata, explained that the new conversation on Hadoop’s business outcome should indeed be the new focus of the industry in a live interview ...
How can Hadoop go mainstream? Microsoft + Hortonworks share their master plan | #HadoopSummit
Making Hadoop mainstream, and enabling customers to pull Hadoop data to use with familiar tools — these are the main goals of the Microsoft-Hortonworks partnership. Eron Kelly, General Manager of SQL Server Marketing at Microsoft, and John Kreisa, VP of strategic Marketing for Hortonworks, explained this successful collaboration to theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Kelly, ...
What comes after non-stop Hadoop? | #HadoopSummit
Providing continuous availability to its customers is WANdisco’s principle concern, according to the company’s CTO, Jagane Sundar. In a live interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante from this year’s Hadoop Summit, he explained that these concerns have led to what the company now calls non-stop HBase, the next step after non-stop Hadoop. Talking ...
Red Hat responds to WSJ: Support is a technical activity, not marketing | #openstacksummit
Day three of the OpenStack Summit brought an interesting conversation on open source cloud management to theCUBE. Joe Fitzgerald, the General Manager for Cloud Management at Red Hat, and the show’s co-hosts, John Furrier and Stu Miniman, discussed the company’s open source cloud management platform, ManageIQ. Red Hat had earlier announced the formation of the ...
OpenStack is about agility. Saving money is a side effect| #openstacksummit
Randy Bias, CEO of Cloudscaling, discussed OpenStack’s evolution and the future of cloud with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Stu Miniman live at the Open Stack Summit 2014. “We look at OpenStack as having evolved from a science project to a mature project.” Bias said. “We’ve seen… a lot of failures. Unless you’re prepared to ...
OpenStack claims the right to compete for the future of cloud | #openstacksummit
Troy Toman, a Cloud Architect at Rackspace, discussed the current state of the OpenStack project and the way collaboration works within it with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Stu Miniman, in a live interview from OpenStack Summit 2014. Commenting on OpenStack’s evolution, Toman said “we’re going through a maturation process as a community and as ...
Hybrid cloud is the answer, but needs unified management models | #EMCWorld
Howard Elias, President and Chief Operating Officer, of Global Enterprise Services at EMC, discussed the company’s overall strategy with theCUBE co-hosts Jeff Frick and Dave Vellante in a live interview from EMC World 2014. “There’s a lot of talk about third platform,” Elias said, and EMC is “really informed about what customers are looking for.” Trends like ...
Data is constant, but consumption models are changing | #EMCWorld
Guy Churchward, EMC DPAD President, explained the scope of his division within the storage vendor’s ecosystem, sitting down with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, for a live interview at EMC World 2014. The name for the DPAD division was given by bringing together the data protection side and the availability piece, Churchward explained. The goal ...
EMC, VMWare, Pivotal innovating individually while coming together | #EMCWorld
David Goulden, the CEO for EMC Information Infrastructure, provided an update on the company’s evolution and shared his thoughts on EMC’s federation of companies in a live interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante at the EMC World 2014 conference. Those attending the conference were able to see the federation in action, Goulden explained. ...