You may have received coupons for restaurants or retailers through your credit card or mobile device. edo Interactive analyzes the data to find the offer you’re most likely to use. “We work with merchant partners to provide offers to customers,” said Tim Garnto, senior VP of infrastructure and information systems for edo Interactive. “We identify within our ...

Snowflake Computing Inc.’s cloud data warehouse differentiates itself in two ways: elasticity and simplicity. “We’re a SaaS,” says CEO Bob Muglia. “We’re fully turnkey. You load data, you run queries. There’s no administration, no keys that need to be built to do distribution across different nodes. We handle all of that. That’s different than other ...

Nasdaq, Inc. has a history of staying on top of its data. As it should, considering the volume of data the stock exchange sees on a daily basis. After moving to Amazon Web Services, Inc. and Redshift, the company cut costs and improved efficiency. “AWS makes it easier to manage provisions, scale-up, scale-down and really use ...

For BlackArrow, Inc., which provides cross-platform products and services including multiscreen solutions, for TV industry providers, the ability to extend real-time data is crucial. With Pentaho, Black Arrow can provide that data in a way that’s easy to assess and use. “With Pentaho, we get an ad hoc reporting tool,” Chris Jannsen, director of user experience ...

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (aka FINRA), analyzes up to 75 billion events daily. It analyzes so much data that its data center has nearly reached capacity. To continue to respond to the market and provide the investor protection its known for, FINRA plans to migrate to the cloud. “We want to have the ...

When it comes to delivering open and accessible information, SaaS offers an efficient solution. That’s why Mo’mix Solutions, which works with state and local governments and higher education, designed one of the only cloud-based SaaS performance data management solutions. “Government agencies and higher education would spend millions on legacy systems, but felt like their data ...

Chris Drake, founder and CEO of Armor Defense Inc. (formerly FireHost), aimed to build “the world’s most secure cloud.” When customers repeatedly asked FireHost to secure their own cloud platforms, FireHost launched Armor. Drake liked the name so much, he rebranded his company. Armor offers virtual private cloud, on- and off-premises private cloud and managed security, ...

Network virtualization and security have become more important over the past couple years. With this in mind, VMware, Inc. prioritized its NSX network virtualization platform with the release of Version 6.2. Dom Delfino, senior vice president of worldwide systems engineering for VMware’s Network and Security Business Unit, told Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely, cohosts of ...

At Amazon re:Invent 2015, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) and Accenture announced the new Accenture AWS Business Group, which will help clients move data to the cloud more quickly. The new business plans to invest significant resources to develop solutions for application migration and development, cloud-based enterprise applications, and analytics and Big Data solutions. Terry ...

Remind101, Inc. was one of the select AWS customers to take the stage during Amazon re:Invent 2015. Remind isn’t the largest technology company, but it does have an important mission: to improve how teachers communicate with parents. “If you can get the parents engaged in the students’ education, they’re going to be able to help their ...