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Marketing excellence: How to capture a Markie | #MME16
The Markies, awards that honor excellence in marketing and are issued by Oracle, started modestly in 2007. The awards featured six categories back then. Today, the Markies are quite the production, honoring excellence in 19 categories. This year, the awards added a People’s Choice Award: Best Video Submission after receiving more than 60 videos. The Markies are a ...
The modern marketer: Analysts assess industry’s expanding landscape | #MME16
Marketing is changing just as quickly as is the world surrounding it. With game-changing elements like social media and globalization, old-hat marketing no longer hits the mark. The Oracle Cloud World: Modern Marketing Experience (MME), held this week in Las Vegas, is focusing on the industry’s expanding landscape. Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts ...
Fighting monocultures with OpenStack | #OpenStack
Many businesses find themselves on the brink of being monocultural. Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) is fighting that trend with several diversity initiatives. The company is working on acknowledging team members who do not have a digital footprint, like project organizers. Allison Randal, distinguished technologist at HPE and board member of the OpenStack Foundation, talked with John ...
Transparency in open-source world becoming the norm | #OpenStack
When it comes to modernizing IT, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) wants to be the front runner. Its plan: working past the current issue to include the problems that lie in wait. HPE’s Helion Group is helping the company work toward this goal, and an announcement concerning HPE Helion OpenStack 3.0 is expected shortly. Mark Interrante, SVP of cloud engineering ...
In the open-source age, ‘no excuse to dictate tech’ | #OpenStack
2016 marks the largest OpenStack Summit yet. With more than 7,600 attendees in Austin, Texas, and numerous partnerships, it is safe to say OpenStack has arrived. Back at home in Texas, OpenStack is flourishing amid its native state’s southern hospitality. “I never thought I’d become an open licensing geek in my life,” said Mark Collier, founder ...
As OpenStack matures, HPE makes ‘deep investment’ in private clouds | #OpenStack
“OpenStack is ready,” according to Omri Gazitt, VP of products and services at Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE’s) Helion Group. Gazitt sat down with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during OpenStack Summit 2016 in Austin, Texas. The topics of conversation included his past experience at Microsoft, Helion Group’s trajectory, ...
Snowden’s legacy: International data sovereignty’s effect on economics | #OpenStack
As more applications move to open source and cloud continues to rise, data professionals find themselves faced with more complex security issues than ever. While it is simple to make the decision to move data out of data silos and into the cloud, many businesses find themselves constrained by international data sovereignty laws. Navigating these ...
Hortonworks changes the Hadoop conversation with new innovations | #HS16Dublin
As IBM continues to challenge Hortonworks, Inc. for the honors of being the top Hadoop distribution vendor, Hortonworks is expanding the “platform narrative” and attempting to pay off “data at rest” with three announcements this week. Matt Morgan, VP of product and alliance marketing at Hortonworks, and Wei Wang, senior director of global marketing at ...
Machine learning on machine learning software: It’s closer than you think | #BigDataSV
As the tech world pivots on game-changing applications, data scientists rise to the occasion. Such is the case with Holden Karau, principal software engineer of Big Data at IBM and coauthor of Learning Spark. When asked about the current renovations within Spark, Karau said she sees this time as an “opportunity to get rid of ...
WANdisco and IBM access the power of ‘all data’ | #BigDataSV
When it comes to handling all data, the partnership between WANdisco, PLC and IBM is uniquely qualified to facilitate the “active replication of data.” David Richards, CEO of WANdisco, said his company is moving past just “replicating Hadoop.” Richards talked with John Furrier (@furrier) and Peter Burris (@plburris), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team ...