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Is a MegaCloud on the way? | #OpenStackSV
Predictably, most speakers at the OpenStack Days 2016 event talked about the open source cloud platform’s strengths and showcased its success. Not so with Christian Carrasco, cloud advisor at CloudGuy.io. Instead, Carrasco’s keynote address at the event focused on the widely publicized issues that OpenStack has faced to date. When asked why OpenStack fails, Carrasco replied, ...
How one city’s CDO leverages data | #MITCDOIQ
Being Chief Data Officer (CDO) for a large city is decidedly different from the typical CDO position. Sam Edelstein, CDO for the City of Syracuse, New York, proves to be atypical not just in his current position, but also in the career path he took to get there. Before earning a master’s degree in information management, Edelstein worked as a ...
The challenge of moving historical data to the cloud | #AWSSummit
Talend, Inc. has been named as an Advanced Big Data Partner within AWS. It is an open-source Big Data integration company that has recently gotten into cloud integration. Ashwin Viswanath, director of Product Marketing at Talend, tied these two aspects together by looking at the impact cloud is having on Big Data. The company was founded ...
Do companies really need a hybrid cloud? | #AWSSummit
New Relic, Inc. is known for its horizontal integration business model. Lee Atchison, principal cloud architect and advocate at New Relic, stated the company’s movement is “up the value stack.” Atchison and John Gray, SVP of Business Development at New Relic, joined John Furrier (@furrier) and Lisa Martin (@luccazara), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media ...
The true magic of data and analytics | #MITCDOIQ
When it comes to data and analytics, it’s hard to draw a line between them. While both have their individual value, “The magic comes when you fuse the two,” explained George Gilbert (@ggilbert41), Big Data and analytics analyst for Wikibon. Gilbert explained that the greater value is drawn from two elements that you have to work ...
Data-driven decision making increases demand for analytics and governance services | #MITCDOIQ
SAP SE has been on a journey that required quite a lot of information sharing with its customers. Justin Litz, global VP of Enterprise Data Management at SAP SE, said that conversations with customers generally revolve around the customer’s journey, but also comparing best practices. The goal is simple: to have “no breakage” in data. Litz ...
Filling the gaps in operating ecosystems with ‘connective tissue’ | #Inforum16
During the last four years, Infor, Inc. has been undergoing a transformation. Marc Scibelli, chief creative officer head of Digital Transformation Strategies at Infor, described the process as an internal “pivot.” Scibelli remarked that the company is currently focused on taking that successful transformation and delivering it to customers, which he deemed as a “transformational ...
Merging the ‘right stuff’ in IoT software | #RHSummit
The time for maintaining the status quo has fallen away. That is the message from Randy Meyer, VP and GM of Mission Critical Systems at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE). Whether the topic is Big Data processing, business transactions driven by IoT or building clouds, Meyer demands higher goals. “A box doesn’t solve anything,” remarked ...
Hadoop and Docker: ‘The shift from scale up to scale out’ | #HS16SJ
Big data is faced with jumping the gap between infrastructure teams and the line of business, according to Jonathan Gray, founder and CEO of Cask Data, Inc. “It’s taken a bit longer for [Hadoop] to mature and grow up in the ecosystem,” determined Gray. One of the most dramatic shifts in Big Data is “seeing ...
Red Hat in container lead; making money, analysts say | #RHSummit
Perhaps the most surprising event of Day Two at Red Hat Summit 2016 was a live wedding, which was hosted during one of the conference keynotes. Stu Miniman (@stu) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, said neither had seen such an event at a tech conference. Miniman thought it spoke ...