Brittany Greaner
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How ‘talent science’ increased one company’s retention | #Inforum16
The enterprise may feel reassured in their IT investments once they have collected data, a step many companies consider the most important, and most complicated. In fact, amassing data is just the beginning, according to Ben Eubanks, principal analyst at Lighthouse Research & Advisory, HR blogger, and cofounder of HRevolution, a US conference for the human resource industry. Once you ...
How does OPDi compliance affect upstream projects? | #HS16SJ
What if you could open your market up with considerably little engineering effort? It’s happening with ODPi (Open Data Platform initiative) compliance, according to John Mertic, director of Program Management for ODPi and Open Mainframe Project at The Linux Foundation. ODPi is a nonprofit organization accelerating the open ecosystem of Big Data solutions, and this is the ...
New technologies foster an open-source environment | #RHSummit
In 2007, when 3scale, Inc. was founded, some people thought it was crazy to be investing so much time and energy into API. But Steven Willmott, CEO of 3scale, Inc., said that even at that time his team knew that the future was API-driven, and they wanted to help that happen. “Now every customer we talk to ...
Is a secondary system for analytics necessary? | #HS16SJ
The database market has been rapidly changing, so much so that it’s hard to make declarative statements about any part of the process. Still, Oracle makes the claim that it takes decades to build a high-performance and stable database and that has been, for the most part, true. So what has changed to support the creation ...
New search engine makes data instantly searchable, increases data retention | #HS16SJ
Fortune 400 and Fortune 500 companies are competing with smaller enterprises. In order to stay competitive, these smaller businesses need to change how they’re doing business, explained Joey Echeverria, platform technical lead at Rocana, Inc. Rocana is helping businesses make that change by focusing on scalability and security. The company recognizes that companies care most about ...
3 ways Yahoo employed Hadoop to optimize utilization | #HS16SJ
In the last three years, the demands from customers have grown exponentially. Like many companies, Yahoo, Inc. is adapting to better serve its customers and provide a better user experience. In his talk as keynote speaker today during Hadoop Summit 2016 in San Jose, CA, Mark Holderbaugh, senior director of Hadoop Engineering at Yahoo, discussed the three major ...
How flexible is the hybrid cloud? | #RHSummit
You may not realize when you’re traveling that every time you book a flight, board a plane, or look for your luggage, you’re probably using Amadeus Data Processing. It’s really at the heart of travel and facilitates the entire travel process, from initial search to making a booking, from pricing to ticketing, from managing reservations to ...
Container networking closing the gap on virtualization | #RHSummit
In order to be a great application developer, do you need to understand the stacks and orchestration? David Ward, CTO of Engineering and chief architect at Cisco Systems, Inc., argued that is not the goal. The underlying infrastructure is very complex, and if exposed to too much of it, an application developer may not write ...
BMC evolving with Hadoop to launch new data solutions | #HS16SJ
BMC Software, Inc. is an established company that is revitalizing itself. “The new BMC is all about digital,” according to Robin Purohit, president of the Digital Service Management Business Unit at BMC Software. Big Data has now become essential, and BMC is working to not only add new services, but make services it has offered for ...
The rapid rise of digital culture … and the fallout | #HS16SJ
Digital culture has had its share of criticisms, and it’s so ubiquitous now that people forget it’s a relatively new phenomenon. It’s a phenomenon that Virginia Heffernan, author of Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, is perpetually excited by. She can even remember a time before the World Wide Web, when she would eagerly ...
