For-profit companies aren’t the only organizations taking advantage of data visualization. United Way of the Bay Area, the poverty-combating non-profit, has its sights set on becoming innovative and data-driven to better provide services. United Way’s India Swearingen, Director of Evaluation and Insight, stopped by theCUBE at Tableau Software, Inc.’s annual customer conference to discuss how her ...

For the enterprise security must come first, said Dave Tishgart, Director of Alliances at Cloudera. When data is secure, it opens new avenues for analysis and visualization. Tishgart joined the CUBE’s Jeff Kelly at the Tableau Data 14 conference this week to discuss Hadoop security and how Cloudera customers use Tableau products to advance their ...

Whether data is big, small, or in the middle, the most important trend right now is making it accessible, said Chris Selland, VP of Marketing and Business Development at HP Vertica. Tableau, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard’s big data platform HP Vertica have a number of joint customers and, according to Selland, go together like “chocolate and ...

Data management tools from Tableau, Inc. are essential to the way the Texas Institute for Robotic Surgery (TIRS) collects data. And they collect a lot of it — sensitive data too, since the TRIS manages data for the Hospital Corporation of America. Dr. Randy Fagin, Chief Administrative Officer of the TRIS, says they amass data on patient ...

Data visualization and user experience will be the dominating themes of the 2014 Tableau Big Data Conference, predicted theCUBE’s John Furrier and Jeff Kelly. In their coverage kickoff, the hosts swapped predictions for Tableau’s success and shared their thoughts on trends that will emerge from the upcoming conference. Tableau emerged from the growth in data ...

Microsoft, Corp. describes its new Lumia 830 as “the affordable flagship” of its smartphones selection. Much of the buzz has been about the smartphone’s PureView camera, which offers a new set of capabilities, but the Lumia 830 comes equipped with features that suggest Microsoft seeks to craft an ideal mid-range business device. Thinking of buying? ...

VMworld 2014 had three overarching themes: the software-defined data center (SDDC), end-user computing, and the cloud. Flowing beneath them were the sub-themes of hyperconvergence, “co-opetition,” integration and the adoption of enterprise mobile. Reflecting on a whirlwind three-day event, theCUBE’s Stu Miniman, Dave Vellante, and John Furrier shared their observations on what they learned as VMworld ...

Capgemini S.A. is focused on helping customers transition into a new age of technology tools. In combination with VMware, Inc., Capgemini is seeking to help customers enhance their businesses through social, mobile, analytics, or the cloud. These services, and implementing them with customers, is Capgemini’s “sweet spot.” Sheryl Chamberlain, Capgemini VP and Global Partner Executive, ...

Customers want mobile of all sorts, according to Sanjay Poonen, EVP and GM of End-User Computing at VMware, Inc. The virtualization service provider is constantly seeking out the tools to meet mobile demand. Whether it’s integrating with other technologies, building its own, or purchasing key assets, VMware has its eye trained on enterprise mobile. Poonen ...

The enterprise will undergo a fundamental shift towards hyper-convergence, said Vickram Bhambri, VP of Product Management for EMC Corp.’s Advanced Software Division (ASD). In conversation with Dave Vellante and John Furrier on theCUBE, Bhambri addressed the use of ViPR in vCloud Air, the promise of Docker, why resilience is central to the datacenter, and how ...