There are only two Internet of Things (IoT) markets: the personal and the industrial, said Jim Green, CTO for the Data and Analytics Business Group at Cisco Systems, Inc. While products like wearables and home monitoring are taking off now, the industrial IoT market is expected to surpass the personal market by 2017, reported Green. ...

Although IBM took earnings misses “on the chin” recently, analysts say that the company should continue to embrace its transition to cloud, Big Data, and analytics products. In their kickoff segment at this year’s IBM Insight 2014 event, theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier discussed the action IBM should take and the challenges the tech ...

Conversations at the recently concluded Hadoop World conference have changed drastically in the past two years, according to Abhi Mehta, CEO of Tresata. Among the biggest changes is the increase potential customers looking to get started with Big Data solutions right away. “We’re witnessing something that’s going to be very dramatic.” Mehta said calling the ...

Moving from proof-of-concept to deployment, Hadoop is ready for business according to Lawrence Schwartz, VP of marketing at Attunity Ltd. His company works with customers from a range of verticals, including energy, healthcare, and finance, to lower barriers to cloud and Hadoop adoption. One of the biggest challenges in adopting new technologies is figuring out the return on ...

Wrapping up their coverage of the Big Data NYC conference, Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante discussed some noteworthy patterns emerging in the Big Data enterprise landscape. As storage costs increase and budgets remain flat, enterprises are baselining data warehouse spending in favor of Hadoop experimentation. In fact, theCUBE hosts explained how practitioners are only spending 30 ...

Breaking rules laid down by legacy enterprise platforms, Tableau Software and Alteryx Inc. encourage sharing and self-reliance, emphasizing the user experience above all. Alteryx COO George Mathew spoke with theCUBE’s Jeff Kelly and John Furrier at the Tableau Data 14 conference about the profound changes occurring in the business intelligence and analytics space and why Tableau ...

To protect patient’s personal medical information, the Group Health Cooperative built a privacy monitoring application on top of Splunk Inc. Chris Grant, CISO of Enterprise Security, Enterprise Risk and Governance at the Group Health Cooperative, said that this application “offers a better way to see potential privacy issues and track access to records,” so that the ...

On a full Splunk Inc. network, the Corporation Service Company was able to diagnose and resolve a security incident in under three hours. On a network without Splunk, the same process took three days. When relaying this anecdote in a live interview with theCUBE at this year’s Splunk conference, Scott Plichta, CISO of the Corporation Service Company, ...

  Security is becoming “a harder and harder battle to fight,” said Mark Debney, Principal Engineer, DevOps, at British Sky Broadcasting group plc. bSkyb uses Splunk Inc. products to scale their security tools and improve their chances of fending off a security breach. Splunk is particularly useful when searching for what Debney described as “slow-burn attacks” ...

Since Polycom Inc. first started using Splunk Inc. products, it has been able to drastically improve its proactive detection services, expanding from a “40 percent proactive detection rate to a 67 percent detection rate,” said Garrett Zorigian, SVP of Products at Polycom. Spunk has enabled Polycom to “see what’s happening” across 40 different customer environments and provide ...