Brittany Greaner
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Evolving infrastructures and operations: A story of hyper-convergence | #NEXTConf
Like so many aspects of the digital world, infrastructure is advancing rapidly. Fitness First Ltd.’s Jon Forster, transitional services program manager, reminisced about how when he first started. He said IT infrastructure was a classic three-tier system and you just ran what was there. Now he sees big changes with everything being virtualized. Forster spoke to Stu Miniman ...
Inside a developer-centered app world | #DockerCon
Ultimately, the most important aspect of a product is the user experience. Without a good first impression, you aren’t likely to advance very far no matter what your product can accomplish. Alexis Richardson, founder and CEO of Weaveworks, Inc., underlined the point that developers need to build applications, not worry about the infrastructure. “We need ...
Scalability and access control in the cloud | #DockerCon
Scalability is a concern of many companies as their business grows. While it can be argued that it’s a good problem to have, it can cause headaches and cost both time and money. It can take weeks to make transitions, requiring a change at each level of the system. Aviatrix Systems, Inc. is a startup that ...
Marrying DevOps to existing commodity infrastructure | #DockerCon
When starting up a new company, it’s good to ask what customer needs are not being met. That’s just what Gou Rao, cofounder and CTO of Portworx, Inc., and his partners did when they saw customers looking for a way to move data to commodity infrastructure. The fundamental problem his company, Portworx, solves is allowing people ...
Pioneers on the digital frontier | #DockerCon
The digital frontier is one that keeps moving, making those who work to advance the frontier pioneers. With such a constantly evolving playing field, it takes a certain kind of person to keep up with all the changes. It may be harsh, but it essentially has become “evolve or die,” according to Amy Lewis, director of Field, Channel, ...
Lenovo World: Connected computing to rise as PC popularity declines | #LenovoTechWorld
During every conference visitors will always get to see the “bells and whistles,” the eye-catching, breath-stopping displays of things like virtual reality and augmented reality. But underneath it all – no matter how colorful or show-stopping – is data. At this week’s Lenovo World event, it was an exciting time rich with innovations behind the scenes. Stu Miniman (@stu) ...
The hyper-convergence blueprint in the enterprise | #LenovoTechWorld
In Silicon Valley much of the focus is on software, with hardware only coming into focus when something goes wrong. When Sudheesh Nair, president of Nutanix, Inc., and his team encountered a hardware program, it took two months and professionals from five different fields to finally fix it. “Imagine if customers were getting software from one vendor and ...
Connectivity is king: The democratization of data | #SparkSummit
Connectivity is the theme of this interview, as Sumit Sarkar, chief data evangelist at Progress Software Corp., works to enable connectivity in any direction, making it open in what he calls a “democratization of data.” Part of this digital transformation is giving the data maximum flexibility, and Apache Spark achieves that by helping users access the ...
The fast lane toward customer loyalty | #SparkSummit
Technology is a great tool, but what does it mean if you have no customers? Rajesh Krishnan, senior product manager of personalization at AIMIA, Inc., is working with companies to improve customer loyalty. And the company has found ways to use Spark to help them do so. During Spark Summit 2016 in San Francico, Krishnan ...
Don’t leave data behind: Spark as a translator for data | #SparkSummit
What makes Apache Spark so unique? There are many reasons it is seen as such an innovative platform, according to Joel Horwitz, director of Corporate and Business Development at IBM Analytics. Instead of trying to be “the one notebook to rule them all,” IBM focused on figuring out what makes data scientists tick and what they’re specifically looking for, ...
