Cynthia Kuzela
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Dell is riding the wave of digital disruption| #DellWorld
The radically changing needs of Dell Inc.’s customer base is making major players in the company stand up and take notice. Matt Baker, Director of Enterprise Strategy at Dell said, “There is a digital wave of disruption, which is driving businesses to react.” In a live interview with theCUBE, at Dell World 2014, Baker talked ...
Analysts dissect Dell’s reinvention |#DellWorld
With the start of Dell World 2014, theCUBE hosts Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman discuss where Dell Inc. have come from and what they have achieved since becoming a private company. Since 2008, Dell’s been transforming their company, including setting out on a $13 billion buying spree. Their purchases include Perot Systems for $4 billion, as ...
MapR makes it “so much easier” to use Hadoop | #HadoopHudson
What is the current state of the Big Data market? That’s a question that will garner a range of answers depending on who you ask, as many industry players tackle the biggest of Big Data’s remaining obstacles to the enterprise. For MapR Technologies, Big Data is an opportunity to demonstrate the perks of its Hadoop ...
Keeping confidential information from the wrong hands with Hadoop | #HadoopHudson
Hadoop has been something of a saving grace for companies looking to aggregate large amounts of data, but controlling access to that data has been a prominent security concern for the Big Data industry. Discussing his company’s role in encrypting data for Hadoop systems is George Billman, Senior Director of Business Development and Technical Alliances for ...
Data is the lifeblood of applications | #HadoopHudson
Cisco really wants people to understand the value of the infrastructure, and where Big Data fits into modern IT. That means Cisco also needs customers to understand the entire Hadoop platform, including the analytics and software that goes on top of the open source data management tool. “We’re demonstrating how we bring value there,” explained ...
Syncsort’s big move to native Hadoop | #HadoopHudson
How Syncsort Inc. is bringing the two worlds of mainframe and unstructured data from mobile and social together has a great deal to do with Hadoop, explained Bryan Ashley, the VP of WW Business Development – Data Integration for Syncsort. During a live interview with theCUBE at the recently concluded Hadoop on the Hudson event, Ashley discussed how ...
MapR customers see growing ROI on Hadoop deployments | #HadoopHudson
Revealing its plans for Hadoop, MapR Technologies Inc. CMO Jack Norris detailed his company’s Big Data goals for its developer community and the numbers behind recent customer growth. First up, MapR is incorporating MapR-DB into its community edition, Norris stated during a live interview with theCUBE during the Hadoop on the Hudson Party. The integration speaks ...
How Cisco exploits Big Data: From the early years to present day | #HadoopHudson
Hadoop was like a honeypot in the early days, attracting plenty of great brains. It was virtually impossible to predict just how far it has come. In a live interview on theCUBE at the Hadoop on the Hudson Party, Robert Novak, a Consulting Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems Inc. recalled the early days of Hadoop. “Generally [Hadoop] was ...
Big data could unleash $12 trillion in market value | #HadoopHudson
It’s not about the speeds and feeds anymore, said Chris Selland, VP of Business Development for HP Vertica, talking about adding business value up the stack. In a live interview with theCUBE at the recently concluded Hadoop on the Hudson Party, Selland explained that businesses should “Get past the technology” as his team looks to show ...