During today’s Oracle Cloud Launch, held at the Oracle Convention Center in Redwood Shores, California, the company will announce new Oracle Cloud Platform services. The expansion of its PaaS was a logical step, according to Carl Olofson, Oracle’s Research VP, Data Management Software, IDC. “People with complex applications want a platform that will support what ...

IBM’s support for Apache Spark “throws a huge endorsement to the community and to customers as a way to telegraph what’s next,” said theCUBE cohost John Furrier. At IBM Spark, held in conjunction with Spark Summit, thought leaders got a sense of why a powerhouse such as IBM supports the platform. “Spark is a game ...

IBM Commerce goes under the covers of marketing, merchandising and B2B commerce, and it adds analytics to improve user interaction and the decisions that get made inside those applications. IBM Commerce’s principal scientist Robert Parkin told theCUBE during IBM Spark 2015 that Spark allows the department to cut down run times for the mathematical modeling ...

IBM’s collaboration with Spark will fuel innovation in three ways, according to Harriet Fryman, VP of portfolio marketing for IBM Analytics. Use cases will involve “highly interactive analysis; compute-intensive algorithms; and getting insight to drive applications and processes,” she shared with SiliconANGLE’s media hub theCUBE, broadcasting live from IBM’s Spark event today. Fryman notes that with ...

IBM is showing its support for Apache Spark in a big way at Spark Summit, a three-day event packed with lectures from leading production users of Spark, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming and related projects. Attendees will learn where project development is going and how to use the Spark stack in a variety of applications. theCUBE ...

According to Joel Horwitz, worldwide director of portfolio marketing, Big Data & Analytics for IBM, the energy in the office is infectious. After years of planning, IBM’s collaboration with Apache Spark has come to fruition. “This is a new way of thinking about data,” said Horwitz during a visit to SiliconANGLE’s media hub, theCUBE, broadcasting ...

Rob Bearden, CEO of Hortonworks, Inc., which develops and supports Apache Hadoop, sees the hard work of the past few years coming into fruition. The market is on the brink of a positive explosion, theCUBE cohost John Furrier believes, which explains Bearden’s excitement. “Hadoop has crossed over to become an enterprise-viable data platform,” he said ...

Now that Hadoop has become something of a buzz word, more businesses want to use Hadoop to get value out of their data. Recognizing this need, IBM recently announced that it will make Hadoop available as a service on Cloud, particularly with IBM Bluemix, according to Joel Horwitz, director of product marketing, Big Data Analytics ...

Two heads are better than one, the common saying goes, especially when those heads belong to a federation comprised of EMC, Pivotal Software, Inc., VMware, Inc. and RSA Security, Inc. On theCUBE during the Hadoop Summit 2015, Michael Cucchi, Pivotal’s senior director of outbound product, discussed the company’s recent collaborations. “The federation provides the guidance and ...

Nutanix, Inc. President and CEO Dheeraj Pandey follow a “three H” philosophy: remain hungry, honest and humble. “Within our family of employees, customers and partners, we’re extremely subservient,” said Pandey. “With the competition we’re different, because we don’t have an overlap of interests.” Honesty and hunger are ingrained in Nutanix’s DNA, according to Pandey. “Everyone ...