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Shopify delivers the scoop on early Docker adoption | #DockerCon
“Docker solves real problems in development and CI environments,” said Simon Hørup Eskildsen, software developer at Shopify, Inc.. During a sit-down with theCUBE’s John Furrier and Jeff Frick at DockerCon 2015, Eskildsen explained that Shopify had been running its main application in Docker for about a year. Unlike many other early adopters that have been ...
Heating the Netherlands from data centers | #DockerCon
Nerdalize’s two main products, The CloudHeater and Nerdalize Kompute, provide free heating for home owners and computing power for homeowners in the Netherlands that is reportedly 30-55% cheaper per job than the next best alternative. By placing servers in residential homes and then selling the computing power to researchers and businesses (users of Infrastructure as ...
WANdisco focuses on cross data center replication | #Hadoopsummit
“We gave [businesses] the ability to have strongly consistent, replicated versions of their data,” said Jagane Sundar, WANdisco plc chief technical officer, concerning his company’s role within in the industry. During an interview at Hadoop Summit 2015, theCUBE’s John Furrier and George Gilbert joked with Sundar about the bet he won regarding whether the Big Data ...
Syncsort and Dell announce joint data solution | #HadoopSummit
Josh Rogers, president of Syncsort, Inc., announced “a joint solution for data offloading, data warehousing and ETL” during an interview with theCUBE alongside Dell Inc.’s Mike Fountaine, national sales director at Disruptive Solutions, Cloud and Big Data. The solution is a great use case that frees up budget, funds their Hadoop cluster and populates with ...
One scientist’s perspective on Spark | #SparkInsight
Fernando Perez is a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a founding investigator of Berkeley Institute for Data Science. In addition, Perez is a particle physicist who worked with the Python Project that led to the Jupyter Project, which is part of the Spark ecosystem. “The Jupyter environment is precisely about building an environment ...
Filling the industry’s educational needs for data scientists | #SparkInsight
Galvanize is part of what John Furrier calls IBM’s “Million Developer March.” Mike Tamir, chief science officer at Galvanize, describes his institution as a “teaching hospital for data scientists and web developers of the future.” Tamir told theCUBE’s John Furrier and George Gilbert during IBM Spark 2015 that he “sees all kinds of articles out ...
Data is the next natural research | #SparkInsight
“The decade and maybe even the century is defined by the data and analytics. It’s why we call it the insight economy. Spark is the analytics operating system for that to just unlock that value,” Beth Smith, general manager of Analytics Platform at IBM, told theCUBE’s John Furrier and George Gilbert at IBM Spark Summit ...
Swedbank grows infrastructure ‘organically’ while eliminating silos | #NEXTConf
When it comes to being an Infrastructure Architect, “the roles are definitely converging now,” explained David Quinney, infrastructure architect at Swedbank. “You need to know network … storage … compute” and have a “design methodology that is going to go toward goals that you have for your infrastructure,” Quinney told theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Stu ...
Invisible data management from CommVault | #NEXTConf
“We know that the industry is changing,” Don Foster, senior director of Product Management at CommVault Systems, Inc. told theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman at the Nutanix’s .NEXT Conference 2015 CommVault. “Customers are looking at information as an asset rather than a liability,” Vellante observed, which has led to CommVault’s recent re-branding as not ...
Wahl Network debuts on theCUBE | #NEXTConf
Chris Wahl, founder and president of Wahl Network, LLC — a technology blog — joined theCUBE’s Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman for first time at the Nutanix .NEXT Conference. Wahl remarked on the difference between Nutanix and traditional converged infrastructure. “You’re able to wipe the slate clean from that legacy architecture,” and it’s “all about ...