Brittany Greaner
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Enabling discovery with the next-gen platforms | #HS16SJ
When looking at next-generation platforms, it’s clear that the key is collaboration. It’s important not to silo the data. The traditional structures “didn’t enable discoveries, didn’t enable personalization that a role might need,” said Nancy Hensley, director of offering management at IBM. And, according to Dinesh Nirmal, VP of development for next-gen analytics, Spark and ...
How data analysis opened up new possibilities for Yahoo Mail | #HS16SJ
There are some who say e-mail is dying, but is it true? Certainly, as technology advances, there are more ways than ever to connect and send messages that don’t rely on traditional e-mail servers. However, Peter Monaco, VP of Engineering for Communications Products at Yahoo, Inc., argued that instead of dying out, e-mail is transforming. ...
What 3 things do customers looks for in a product? | #RHSummit
“The customer is always right.” This is a common mantra for anyone who’s worked in customer service. And Alessandro Perilli, general manager of management strategy at Red Hat, Inc., makes a point of studying what it is customers want and what they like. He sees three critical trends of what customers look for in a product. The ...
How Kafka is helping to improve visibility for data analytics | #HS16SJ
Customers are excited about the opportunities that come from data analytics. As the Hadoop Summit is making clear this week, there is a lot of exploration going on right now, and a lot that can be achieved. Apache Kafka is one system helping to do just that. “The demand for Kafka is for the ability to ...
OpenNotes impacts quality of healthcare through data access | #RHSummit
Even the most routine visit to the doctor’s office can cause many people to worry, much less managing a serious chronic health condition. Oftentimes this nervousness combined with complicated instructions can cause patients leaving their appointments feeling overwhelmed and underprepared. A national initiative called OpenNotes is working to change that by allowing patients access to ...
Driving behavior with enhanced collaboration and data-driven decision-making | #HS16SJ
When wondering if data has value, one doesn’t have to look further than Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn. The value of data was the theme of the entire transaction, according to Merv Adrian, VP of Gartner, Inc. While he acknowledged that, by this point, it was a story that had been covered many times before, he noticed a ...
Data revolution will cure cancer, says Rob Bearden: Hadoop Summit keynote | #HS16SJ
When asked what you would wish for the world, besides “world peace,” most people would probably say curing cancer. Most people know someone whose life has been touched by cancer, and just like world peace, curing cancer might seem like a far-flung goal that won’t be realized until we live in a world akin to The ...
Microsoft’s insights into hyper-convergence and scalability in the cloud | #NEXTConf
Drama may make for good television, but it certainly doesn’t make for good business. Microsoft is working to eliminate drama out of its customers’ lives as much as possible, according to Jeffrey Snover, technical fellow at Microsoft. Hyper-convergence is one way it is accomplishing that. “It allows you have a uniform substrate where you can scale up and down ...
Harvard Business School professor reveals the secrets of successful negotiation | #NEXTConf
What lessons can we learn from the world’s oldest-known peace treaty? Deepak Malhotra, a Harvard Business School professor and member of Nutanix Inc.’s board of advisors, would argue there are plenty of lessons to be found in such an ancient document. 3,000 years old, the Treaty of Kadesh was between the Egyptians and the Hittites. ...
Top 1% of IT architects wanted: Top-tier certification with NPX | #NEXTConf
A new certification is in the works with Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX). The objective of the certification is to show that you have the “ability to deliver complete solutions to customers that relate directly back to business requirements,” according to Rene Van Den Bedem, chief architect at RoundTower Technologies, Inc. Without a skilled enterprise architect, you ...
