Kathryn Buford
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Digital Renaissance changes billion dollar art industry: Sedition director explains why you should care [IMAGES]
Last year, the Economist reported, “Few cultural mediums have defied the digital revolution quite like the art market…[it] seems impervious to the ascent of e-commerce…traditions die hard.” As with other industries, the digital wave is making the art world more social, less hierarchical and increasingly diverse. When a slow moving giant like the art industry ...
Hadoop mythbusting and other things MapR gets right #BigDataNYC
Continuing their ongoing coverage of SiliconANGLE’s own Big Data NYC Conference, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Jack Norris, MapR CMO in theCUBE. The three discuss three myths associated with Hadoop and how MapR innovates. Myth 1 – Norris challenges the idea that there is a vicious competition across Hadoop distributions. “In reality,” he ...
How Cloudera keeps bringing the future back | #BigDataNYC
In their ongoing coverage of SiliconANGLE’s own Big Data NYC conference, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Amr Adwallah, Cloudera CTO in theCUBE. Adwallah reflects on how his past experience shaped his current role at Cloudera saying, “At companies like Yahoo! and Facebook and Google, we saw the future, we came back with the ...
Hadoop is ready for enterprise and MetaScale is ready to lead | #BigDataNYC
In their ongoing coverage of SiliconANGLE’s own Big Data NYC conference, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Ankur Gupta, MetaScale Lead of Sales and Marketing, in theCUBE. The three discuss MetaScale’s origin and what distinguishes their enterprise position and current offerings, especially with Hadoop. MetaScale was born out of Sears. At a challenging time ...
WANdisco fights data failures like no one else | #BigDataNYC
In their ongoing coverage of SiliconANGLE’s own Big Data NYC conference, Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly speak with Brett Rudenstein, Senior Product Manager of Big Data for WANdisco. The three discuss WANdisco’s unique patented technology that allows Hadoop to run across a wide area network despite severe network failures. Rudenstein performs a demonstration of an ...
Even when the government doesn’t work, Artists do: Why Better Mus’ Come stays current
The wake of the United States government shut-down, is just one instance reminding us that movies about government failings, past and present, remain “current.” Many filmmakers of political cinema have a bigger vision for their art than criticizing a broken system. These artists help audiences connect dots they didn’t recognize before and show the first-hand ...
Splunk: Where ROI Pays for Itself on Day One #splunkconf
In their ongoing coverage of Splunk Conference 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Bill Gaylord, Senior Vice President of Business Development for Splunk. In this short chat the three discuss the new benefits of search options and Splunk’s emphasis on user experience. Gaylord explains that Splunk is not constrained by data storage. While ...
Why Customers Say “Splunk Allows Me to Dream” #splunkconf
In their ongoing coverage of Splunk Conference 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Clint Sharp, Director of Product Management, Big Data and Operational Intelligence at Splunk business analytics, in theCUBE. The three discuss the secret to Splunk’s success despite increased competition, benefits of search and the future of analytics offerings. Vellante has observed ...
How Cloud and SaaS Power Ping Identity’s Growth #splunkconf
In their ongoing coverage of Splunk 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Beau Christensen, Manager, Infrastructure Operations. The three discuss security, Ping Identity’s growth and it’s recent Boundary app. Vellante asks Christensen what powers Ping Identity’s growth. Christensen says the big driver is cloud and SaaS applications. Customer security concerns have also been ...
Oxygen Cloud Breathes Through Nirvanix Challenges #OOW13
In their ongoing coverage of Oracle Open world 2013, John Furrier spoke with Leo Leung, VP of Product Marketing for Oxygen Cloud in theCUBE. Oxygen Cloud had several joint customers using the now defunct Nirvanix as the storage underneath Oxygen. The three discuss Oxygen Cloud’s developments over the year and responses to joint customers affected ...