By announcing a commitment to contribute to Presto’s open-source development, Teradata Corp. created new opportunities for the next-generation, open-source SQL query engine developed and used by Facebook, Inc. “We saw this as an exciting opportunity for Teradata to put its weight behind this project and become a stronger member of the open-source community,” Teradata Center ...

Scott Gnau, CTO of Hortonworks, Inc., believes open computing initiative Hadoop has prompted some of the changes in the current IT landscape, and many of those changes will stick. Cloud storage gives users ease of deployment and flexibility, while open source offers agility and affordability. “When you look at the Hadoop landscape as open source, ...

A Gartner, Inc. survey reports that of the companies surveyed, 54 percent reported no plans to invest in Hadoop-based Big Data technologies. When looked at another way, almost half plan to invest within the next two years, which shows promise for Hadoop. At this year’s Hadoop Summit, Hortonworks, Inc. President Herb Cunitz noted that end ...

After interviewing a top-notch lineup of Apache Hadoop, Hortonworks, Inc. and other tech industry leaders, theCUBE cohosts John Furrier and George Gilbert analyzed key issues from Hadoop Summit’s first day. “In his keynote, [Tresata Inc. CEO] Abhi Mehta said that where we want to go is to turn analytics into a set of building blocks ...

Paul Cormier, president of Product and Technologies for Red Hat, Inc., told theCUBE during Red Hat Summit 2015 that everything the company creates goes back to the open-source community. A newly acquired company may present the one exception. “If we acquire a company that doesn’t have open-source technology, it may take us 60 to 90 ...

Intel strives to meet the needs of all levels of workloads, from the low end to the highest end data center. Doug Fisher, senior VP and general manager of Intel’s Software and Services Group, lines up software for data center platforms and ensures that the platforms are optimized to “take advantage of any unique capabilities,” ...

Red Hat, Inc. CEO Jim Whitehurst didn’t always think out of the box or encourage debate among staff. As a former COO of Delta Air Lines, Inc., Whitehurst came from a traditional management background. When he joined Red Hat, his approach to management shifted quickly to focus on agility and innovation: both necessary components to ...

theCUBE cohost Stu Miniman says that there is “no doubt” that open source is an important piece of the IT puzzle. As Miniman and cohost Sam Kahane reviewed the second day of Red Hat Summit, Miniman concluded that Red Hat, Inc. now “has a seat at the table” for top-level discussions. Understanding how technology works ...

For a relatively small company, Red Hat, inc. has become a major player in open source technology. “It is definitely more than a Linux company,” said theCUBE cohost Dave Vellante, summarizing day one of Red Hat Summit 2015. “This conference is ground zero for an open-source revolution.” Guaranteeing innovation With its partner ecosystem and continued ...

theCUBE cohosts Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman got Day One of Red Hat Summit underway with a discussion of Red Hat, Inc.’s role in the PaaS layer. Vellante asked Miniman if Docker could deliver such end-to-end integration. “Docker is a tool, but building up the stacks and having knowledge to build those applications is a ...