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Data is the new middle manager | #MITCDOIQ
“Don’t be a curator; be an innovator … a disrupter,” advised Bob Picciano during his keynote address at MIT CDOIQ Symposium. Fresh from his delivery, Picciano, senior VP at IBM Analytics, recapped his speech for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s Media team. Picciano encouraged CDOs to “think deeply” about the changing face of customer engagement. He conveyed the ...
The data integration debacle; beyond ‘nirvana’ solutions | #MITCDOIQ
“Data integration is the 800-pound gorilla in the corner, and everyone’s got it in spades,” according to Mike Stonebraker, MIT professor and data scientist. The recent recipient of the Turing Award, which is presented for major contributions of lasting importance to computing, Stonebraker sat down with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s Media team, during MIT CDOIQ Symposium. Stonebraker concluded ...
Low-hanging fruit in healthcare data leverages predictions, prioritizes patients| #MITCDOQ
Nicholas Marko “occupies the space between compute and clinical” in the field of health service Big Data. As both a clinical brain surgeon and the Chief Data Officer for Geisinger Health System Foundation, Dr. Marko is uniquely qualified to evaluate how data science advances improve the patient experience. During an interview with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s Media ...
Complexity the enemy to mainstream OpenStack adoption | #RHSummit
“Complexity has been the enemy to mainstream OpenStack adoption,” Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager of OpenStack at Red Hat, Inc., told theCUBE’s Stu Miniman during an interview at Red Hat Summit 2015. “I view OpenStack as an ingredient to the end destination the customer wants to get to.” OpenStack is part of an open hybrid Cloud, ...
‘Developers are new kingmakers’ | #RHSummit
NGINX, Inc. started more than 10 years ago as open-source project. The company’s misson was “trying to solve the simple problem of putting 10k web connections on 2002 hardware,” Sarah Novotny, technical evangelist for NGINX, informed theCUBE‘s Stu Miniman during an interview at Red Hat Summit 2015. In the last 10 years, NGINX “has grown ...
JReport reveals its ‘secret sauce’ | #RHSummit
Jinfonet Software, Inc., which provides the JReport product suite, a Java reporting solution that delivers customizable business intelligence, started in 1998 by working in embeddable reporting. And that’s still the company’s focus today, according to Dean Yao, director of marketing at JReport. During Red Hat Summit 2015, Yao told theCUBE that the company’s services include ...
OpenPower, IBM and community-driven innovation | #RHSummit
IBM and Red Hat, Inc. share a view that openness drives innovation in the marketplace, and that approach has led to an 11-year partnership. “No one company owns the innovation model,” Doug Balog, vice president and general manager at IBM Power Systems, said during an interview with theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman at Red ...
Oracle simplifies Cloud integration at JDSU | #datacenter
JDS Uniphase Corp. (JDSU) is currently undergoing work to separate the company into two strategic entities called Lumentum and Viavi Solutions. As part of the separation process, the company needed to consolidate, simplify, modernize and migrate all of its applications onto a new environment, according to Rajeev Sethi, senior director of IT applications at JDSU. ...
IT: The new utility | #RHSummit
Red Hat Summit partner 6fusion wants to “create a way to meter consumption for IT.” As Delano Seymour, chief technical officer at 6fusion, explained the concept to theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman, his company “meters IT like you would electricity.” Toward that goal, 6fusion “created a standard unit of measure for consumption,” which can ...
Being Cloud native; being Cloud first | #datacenter
When Fari Ebrahimi joined Avaya, Inc., he was “asked to transform how the business gets transacted.” The senior VP and Chief Information Officer runs a “20k partner community” and seeks a “seamless experience” for his customers. Ebrahimi explained to theCUBE’s John Furrier and Dave Vellante that Oracle helps Avaya “deliver the solutions that customers are ...