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Big Data Can Drive Your Business
Big data is about driving your business, providing an optimized experience to each customer, and eliminating the impediments that create customer dissatisfaction, says ClickFox CEO Marco G. Pacelli. “We talk to business owners, senior VPs of retail or customer service…people who own the client” not IT people, he told SiliconAngle.TV from the recent EMC Analyst ...
Open Source is the Future of Software Says MIT Prof. Mike Stonebraker
Open Source is the future of the software industry for one overwhelming reason that few people really understand – its vastly more efficient marketing strategy, MIT Prof. Mike Stonebraker told Wikibon.org co-founder and CEO David Vellante in an interview on SiliconAngle.TV from the Mass Technology Leadership Council event Feb. 17. “Standard enterprise software is sold ...
Bit.ly Data Scientist Hilary Mason Spills the Beans at Strata
“I think we need to change the way we think of the word ‘search’,” bit.ly Data Scientist and self-defined “data geek” Hilary Mason told David Vellante and John Furrier on SiliconAngle.TV at the Strata Conference in early February (see here for the full video of the interview). “So we have this idea that search is you ...
The Enterprise Cloud is About Infrastructure Provisioning, says Cisco Evangelist James Urquhart
What cloud computing means for a business depends in large part on economics, C-Net blogger and Cloud Computing Evangelist James Urquhart told SiliconAngle.tv at the Strata Putting Data to Work Conference February 1-3 in Santa Clara. See the full interview below, or at SiliconANGLE.tv. For small businesses and start-ups in particular, Software-as-a-Service is a no-brainer. ...
Big Data Excites Marco Pacelli Because All the Answers are There
Big data excites Clickfox Founder and CEO Marco Pacelli. “All the answers are in the data,” he said over SiliconAngle.tv from the 2011 Strata Making Data Work Conference, and that will revolutionize the products and services businesses deliver and how they deliver them. The volume of data on user preferences, on what customers like and ...
Greenplum’s Yara Tells Strata Conference “We Need More Startups”
In his keynote speech Thursday, Greenplum Co-Founder Scott Yara told a packed house at the first ever Strata “Making Data Work” conference, “We need more startups!” Afterwards, in an interview on SiliconAngle.tv, he expanded on that theme. “Back when the Web was new, everyone was excited about going out and creating new Websites. I want ...
SiliconANGLE Exclusive: Abhi Metha Announces Big Data Analysis “Factory” Builder Tresata
Former Bank of America executive, MIT Media Lab Executive in Residence, and big data pioneer Abhi Metha announced the launch of Tresata, his latest venture, on SiliconAngle.TV Tuesday, February 2. Metha cofounded Tresata to develop a tool set and framework for building “data factories” to extract the business value from big data databases. “We see ...
Data: the Next State of Computer Economy Evolution, says Tim O’Reilly
Data, and specifically very large databases, are the new sources of competitive advantage, says Tim O’Reilly, founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, and one proof of that is the sold-out initial Strata, Making Data Work Conference that his organization has created. “If you look back 30 years, hardware was the source of lock-in,” he said ...
Big Data Can Drive Your Business
Big data is about driving your business, providing an optimized experience to each customer, and eliminating the impediments that create customer dissatisfaction, says ClickFox CEO Marco G. Pacelli. “We talk to business owners, senior VPs of retail or customer service…people who own the client” not IT people, he told SiliconAngle.TV from the recent EMC Analyst ...
EMC Focused on Building Private, Public, and Hybrid Clouds over a Virtualized Environment
EMC is sending a hybrid cloud message to the industry with its mid-January announcements, says company President and COO Pat Gelsinger. “What we’re trying to do is help IT build clouds. We call those private clouds. We are also trying to take the same technologies to enable service providers. We call those public clouds. And ...