Pay a visit to HGST, Inc.’s San Francisco Bay Area campus, and you may find a group of employees doing squats in the parking lot or bolting out for a run on their lunch break. The storage company believes in health and fitness so strongly that it formed a business partnership with CrossFit, Inc., the popular ...

Silicon Valley hockey team San Jose Sharks’ partnership with SAP SE goes way beyond the 17,000-seat SAP Center. Internally, the team uses SAP-affiliated accounting software, the SuccessFactors employee measurement tool, and Intranet site Jam, all SAP products. When it comes to data, the team can also integrate with SAP to adapt its infrastructure to meet its needs. ...

As video content grows in popularity, companies put even greater demands on data storage and management. This creates another level of complexity: managing the data about the data. “Video is easy to consume and is becoming easier to create,” said Dave Tang, SVP of corporate development and strategy and general manager of the cloud infrastructure business ...

IBM’s analytics offerings, along with its mission to show companies what they can learn from data, put Big Blue ahead of the curve in the insight economy. “The insight economy is about how to derive value, actionable insights, in a fast and timely way from disparate data,” said Bob Picciano, senior VP of analytics for IBM. “More ...

Are you looking for Twitter data? Visit IBM’s Information and Insights as a Service department, which analyzes data from Twitter Inc., The Weather Company and other sources to deliver insights for customers. The new cloud-based services use analytic models to simplify the process of combining internal and external data, and then find and connect important signals ...

In an IT environment that has shifted from relatively simple to diverse, vast and complex, IBM Analytics works to unravel this complexity for its customers. Paul Gillin, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, spoke with Sean Poulley, VP of product and offering management for IBM Analytics, during IBM Insight 2015 and asked if he ...

Compared to the Oracle of five years ago, we may not have a new Oracle, but we definitely have a different Oracle, says Ray Wang, principal analyst and CEO of Constellation Research, Inc., a Silicon Valley-based research firm. Wang sat down with John Furrier and Stu Miniman, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, ...

After some hiccups, Oracle is working toward a platform of openness, according to James Governor, analyst and cofounder of RedMonk, LLC, a developer-focused industry analyst firm. “They have to be more developer friendly,” Governor told John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Oracle OpenWorld 2015. “If they want to get into platform ...

The tech industry won’t let Dot Graham retire any time soon. The software test consultant, speaker and author spoke at this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Houston, Texas, on the role of testing in software development. “It’s critically important that testing is done along with development,” Graham told Jeff Frick, cohost ...

The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2015 kicked off in grand fashion, and John Furrier and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, had a front row seat. Produced by the Anita Borg Institute and presented in partnership with Association of Computing Machinery, the three-day event celebrates the growing number of women in the ...