Youth has its advantages. At less than four years old, Zoomdata, Inc., a visual analytics tool for Big Data, didn’t have to rebuild to accommodate cloud platforms and other newer technology. Its modern architecture, combined with the overall growth of the Big Data analytics industry, convinced Goldman Sachs’ Principal Strategic Investments Group to lead a $25 ...

The common question among businesses with access to vast amounts of data is: “What do I do with it?” Qubole, Inc. aims to simplify, speed and scale Big Data analytics workloads against data stored on AWS, Google or Azure clouds. The data processor provides self-service analytics using SQL queries that run in analytic engines such ...

After a dedicated focus on mobile applications in our smartphone-obsessed society, technology leaders are working to enhance the web experience. Facebook product manager Jonathan McKay, who works on a team dedicated to improving that web experience for applications, said that Facebook has a couple of web-focused projects in the works. For one, it’s focusing on ...

Analyst George Gilbert, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, caught up with Nathan Schloss, software engineer at Facebook, during the @Scale conference to discuss some of the company’s pioneering practices that will ultimately migrate down to other mobile web companies. Schloss, who works on the notifications team, discussed a new paradigm called JavaScript service workers. “These ...

Some of the industry’s top engineers and programmers convened at the @Scale conference in San Jose to discuss new innovations that will become mainstream in five to 10 years. Analysts George Gilbert and John Furrier, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, discussed Facebook’s forward moves in Big Data and machine learning. Although U.S. social media users ...

The Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) lets customers provision a section of the AWS Cloud to launch AWS resources in a virtual network. ReactiveOps, Inc. helps customers make the transition from colocation data center to AWS. “VPC is the building block in AWS,” said Sarah Zelechoski, lead site reliability engineer for ReactiveOps. “We want people ...

With companies such as FICO, Wal-Mart and eBay using OpenStack, the open-source cloud computing platform is poised for national and international growth. OpenStack Foundation VP of Marketing and Community Services Lauren Sell told John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, that she’s seeing a lot of public clouds popping up in Asia. ...

Sumeet Singh, CEO of AppFormix, Inc., a cloud monitoring and control solutions company based in San Jose, California, spoke with John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during OpenStack Seattle 2015 to discuss cloud evolution. Cloud monitoring is key to bringing the cloud to the enterprise, Furrier noted. And, according to Singh, “The ...

The number of OpenStack companies continues to grow, but software still has some operational challenges to work through. Aaron Delp, director of technology solutions for SolidFire, Inc., a storage company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, said that companies are still figuring out how to operate and upgrade the software easily. “We’ve got some interesting startups coming ...

Jeff Frick, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, forecasts huge changes in Big Data. He sat down with Gartner Managing Vice President Joe Bugajski during MIT CDO Forum West, sponsored by SAP and Intel, to discuss what’s revolutionizing the IT industry and society as a whole. The industry conference kicked off with a film and panel ...