Content delivery company Fastly Inc. is one of the first users of the Google Cloud Interconnect platform, announced Lee Chen, head of Product at Fastly. He said his company is “aimed at delivering the content fast and all the way to the edge.” Chen explained at the Google Cloud Platform Live event that Fastly was ...

Google has learned to “meet developers where they are,” with the end goal of making it easier for developers to build high-quality, high-performance cloud applications, said Greg DeMichillie, director of Product Management at Google Cloud Platform, at the Google Cloud Platform Live event. With both App Engine and Kubernetes, Google has placed a high premium ...

Google aims to capture both developers and big businesses with its new cloud strategy, observed theCUBE hosts Jeff Frick and John Furrier during SiliconANGLE’s live coverage of the Google Platform Live event. In the keynote, Google execs highlighted both tooling and the potential for massive scale inherent in its new services. This “book-end” strategy, which ...

Watson Analytics is designed to discover “what’s actually interesting” in a customer’s data, according to Marc Altshuller, vice president of Product Management and Business Analytics at IBM. Using predictive technology and cognitive discovery, Watson Analytics makes data-driven insights even more meaningful to clients. It’s an amalgamation of older IBM technologies that occupies a space Altshuller ...

Some companies don’t even share customer data with the VP of sales, according to Miles Austin, the “Web Tools Guy” and Sales and Marketing Technologist at Fill the Funnel, Inc. Austin helps companies look at data they collect with a different perspective. Looking at frequency, for example, instead of forcing site visitors to pony up ...

It’s very early for data science programs, according to Dr. Ahmet Bulut, director of the Masters in data science program at the Istanbul Sehir University. In fact, his graduate program admitted its first batch of students this semester. Bulut visited theCUBE at the IBM Insight conference and chatted with hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier ...

Cloudant has flourished under IBM ownership, said Cloudant CEO Derek Schoettle. From within IBM, Cloudant has been able to deliver on its yearned-for goal of becoming a standard data layer. The capability is called Cloudant Local, and it enables users to move data freely between public and private cloud. This capability goes hand-in-hand with IBM’s focus on ...

Two of IBM’s major announcements at IBM Insight 2014 have their roots in Watson’s cognitive computing capabilities. Starting with the Data Works product, IBM provides a “cloud-based, data refinement capability” that uses Watson to find and shape information, said Inhi Cho Suh, VP and GM of Big Data, Integration, and Governance at IBM. The new ...

Media is data-driven in every way, according to Tim Moran, director of Interactive Sales at WNEP-TV / WNEP.com. His company leverages data to “tailor customer experiences” to drive views and advertising campaigns. Right now WNEP-TV / WNEP.com uses Google Analytics and a variety of tracking methodologies to figure out the intricate details of customer engagement with ...

What will the next wave of enterprise storage look like? Catalogic Software offers a peek into the future with its recently launched Copy Data Management Software Platform (CDMSP). The update represents the future because it allows companies to leverage copies to drive business value, according to Ed Walsh, CEO of Catalogic Software. By providing visibility ...