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Real-time analytics just ‘hype technology’? | #BigDataNYC
“People reach for real-time and streaming engines where it’s not really important for the use case,” according to Ron Bodkin, founder and president of Think Big, A Teradata Corp. company. Referring to the current trend toward real-time, Bodkin called it “hype technology” and says that many times companies think they need true real-time analytics when ...
How to get twice the performance in half the datacenter space | #BigDataNYC
“It’s about matching the different dynamic workloads and taking full advantage of the platform,” said Scott Gnau, CTO, Hortonworks, Inc., describing how Hortonworks and HP are partnering to solve Big Data problems for the community. In an interview at BigDataNYC 2015 in New York City with George Gilbert, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, Gnau ...
HP uses Vertica’s winning formula: The Baskin-Robbins approach to analytics | #BigDataNYC
“If I had to give you one word, it’s about choice,” said Jeff Veis, VP of marketing for Big Data platform solutions at HP Software. Building on the winning formula of the company’s flagship Vertica Big Data SQL Analytics Platform, Hewlett-Packard is focusing on offering variety to enterprises looking to move into the cloud. No compromise computing ...
Exclusive: Zaloni launches Mica to automate “data wrangling” process | #BigDataNYC
Keeping data accessible is the goal of Mica, a new product from enterprise data management solution company Zaloni. Hadoop may make Big Data storage easy, but a growing issue is how to stop your data lake from becoming a stagnant data swamp. Mica addresses this by simplifying access to stored data. In an exclusive interview ...
Reimagining what it means to be in the cloud | #BigDataNYC
What if companies could break out functionality to scale at different levels, asked Dan Baskette, director of technical marketing for Pivotal Software, Inc.. Baskette joined Dave Vellante and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, in a sit-down interview at BigDataNYC 2015 during Strata + Hadoop World. “We’re starting with 10-plus years of Greenplum engineering and coming at ...
Big Data ecosystem undergoing a slow and steady pricing collapse | #BigDataNYC
Big Data is not a product; it’s an ecosystem, and “the ecosystem is really just one big mess,” announced Dave Vellante, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team. With Big Data infrastructure software under going a “slow and steady collapse,” Vellante said that there is an “interesting rift going on, lots of jockeying for position.” “The ...
Why Splunk is a product company at heart | #splunkconf
“The one thing that a product organization is about is delivering product. Delivery, delivery, delivery … that’s what our shop is about. And it should be.” Splunk, Inc. SVP of Products Guido Schroeder has an end game goal of continuous delivery in the cloud, but for now he is happy that the new Splunk Enterprise ...
Telecoms face increased security risks | #splunkconf
“If you want to buy a phone that is safe, buy a 10-year old Nokia!” is the advice given by Christof Jungo, head of security architecture for telecoms provider Swisscom AG. Speaking with John Furrier of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, at Splunk .conf 2015 in Las Vegas, Jungo talked about the increased security ...
Verizon takes risk-based approach to security | #splunkconf
In charge of managing a complex data environment with rapidly evolving internal and external threats, Mike Denning, VP of global security for Verizon Enterprise Solutions, revealed that the Verizon security team needed to “capture all that data, aggregate it in real time and take action … that’s what lead us to Splunk.” Knowing where your ...
Splunk catches data in-flight | #splunkconf
“Driving a new generation of data and delivering value out of it,” is how Chairman and CEO Godfrey Sullivan describes Splunk, Inc.’s mission. Welcoming attendees to Splunk.conf 2015, the “Superbowl for Splunk customers” at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Sullivan marks Mile 8 on the Splunk marathon, saying that the company is “still early ...