The going joke in big data is that ROI means “Reduction on Investment.” So far, real profits are missing in action. But a conspiracy of silence at enterprises may be hiding a very different reality, according to Mike Merrit-Holmes (pictured), senior vice president of global services strategy at Think Big, A Teradata Company. “There’s more ROI out ...

Some analysts speculate that Cloudera Inc.’s initial public offering will see the company’s valuation severely lowered. Does this reflect reality, or is it an illusion created by a market that can’t yet measure the value of open-source communities? “The ecosystems of open source are now going through a dimension where they’re not yet valued in ...

The alphabet soup of network standards bodies, like the Internet Engineering Task Force, Broadband Forum and Metro Ethernet Forum are transforming, according to Dave Ward (pictured), chief technical officer of engineering and chief architect at Cisco Systems Inc. “Each one of those standards bodies is redefining themselves to be SDN [Software-Defined Network]-capable,” Ward said. “All these organizations have now ...

Last February AT&T Inc. announced the Open Network Automation Platform (also known as ONAP), on which they and other carriers will share their technologies with the Linux open-source community. Why would a proprietary giant suddenly make its wares free to the public? It can no longer afford not to, said Lisa Caywood (pictured), director of ecosystem development, OpenDaylight ...

Startups with grand plans to build massive platforms may want to heed the advice of Martin Casado (pictured), general partner at Andreessen Horowitz: “Customers don’t buy platforms; customers buy products.” This rings doubly true for companies working on Software-Defined Networking solutions, Casado told host Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick) and guest host Scott Raynovich (@rayno) of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, ...

East Coast startups may lack the funding of their Silicon Valley brethren. But that hasn’t been a problem for NYC-based DigitalOcean Inc., a cloud infrastructure provider founded in 2011. Its fiercely loyal following of individual developers is taking them to the Fortune 500, according to Julia Austin, the company’s chief technical officer. A VMware Inc. alumna, Austin arrived ...

As millennials enter the workplace in growing numbers, an unflattering stereotype persists in the minds of incumbents: Generation Zuckerberg are selfie-snappers that value re-tweets and Instagram fame over the greater good. “I actually think that couldn’t be further from the truth,” said Adam Smiley Poswolsky, author of “The Quarter-Life Breakthrough.” According to research from IBM Corp. and others, ...

While there may be plenty for women in tech to gripe about, the Professional BusinessWomen of California Conference 2017 in San Francisco was no pity party. Organizers and speakers encouraged attendees to roll up their sleeves and be the change they wished to see in the industry. “We need to have the rubber hit the road; we ...

Data can only go so far in an enterprise without human experts who know how to wield it. Even rare and coveted data scientists may provide only half of the needed skillset, according to Ken Jacquier (pictured), Information Governance Practice, North America sales leader at IBM Corp. A new role that goes beyond algorithms and whips together ...

As if technical hurdles to making data fit for use weren’t challenging enough, line of business people within enterprises are often clueless about mapping a big data strategy. Is there a single word that can make all the pieces fall into place? Caitlin Lepech (pictured, right), communications and client engagement executive, Global Chief Data Office at ...