Artificial intelligence workloads are set to increase 12-fold by 2020, according to Michael Greene (pictured), vice president, Software and Service Group, and general manager of system technologies and optimization at Intel Corp. Scalable hardware-software integrations better get cracking to accommodate them, Greene said today during Spark Summit in San Francisco, California. “We need to make sure ...

Apache has announced that its Spark 2.2 release will finally break from near real-time data streaming into true real-time, event-by-event streaming. How is this difference of milliseconds relevant, anyway? “Your streaming capabilities dictate the class of apps that you’re appropriate for,” George Gilbert (@ggilbert41) (pictured, right) told David Goad (pictured, left), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s poor second-quarter earnings report and dwindling stock prices might frustrate the company’s execs, but they ought not surprise them. “Essentially, it’s facing what most legacy hardware companies are facing,” Dave Vellante (@dvellante) (pictured, left) told John Furrier (@furrier) (pictured, right), as the co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, examined HPE’s market struggles ...

Comparing storage types, one quickly gets tangled in terms like spinning disks, solid state drives and non-volatile memory express methods. There is one simple test for all, according to Itzik Reich (pictured), chief technical officer, XtremIO, at Dell EMC, Dell Technologies Inc.’s infrastructure group. “How quick can you make the query, whether it’s a database application or a ...

With XtremIO X2, Dell EMC, Dell Technologies Inc.’s infrastructure group, aims to alter customers’ expectations of what an all-flash storage array can do with its enhanced Integrated Copy Data Management, said Arindam Paul, senior consultant of product marketing at Dell EMC, Dell Technologies Inc.’s infrastructure group. “Copy data management, when done right like we do on ...

Awaiting a verdict on the on-prem versus all-cloud debate, most enterprises will employ both. This presents tricky data protection and recovery problems, according to Beth Phalen (pictured, right), president of the Data Protection Division at Dell EMC, Dell Technologies Inc.’s infrastructure group. “One of the things we talk about is people moving a way from data centers to centers of ...

Cloud infrastructure and virtualization have steadily abstracted complexities away, giving rise to low-code and no-code platforms that aim to make app creators out of regular business people. “The infrastructure is slave to the app; the app is no longer slave to the infrastructure,” said Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick) (pictured, left), hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live ...

Daily sales reports may be convenient, but they can’t keep the pace with real-time data streaming between organizations, according to Saket Saurabh (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of Nexla Inc. “You cannot really take a daily sales report and feed that into your algorithm,” he said during Data Platforms 2017 in Litchfield Park, Arizona. An algorithm is only as ...

Some argue that technology geared for agility depends on an agile business culture of employees ready to use it. Does this mean a company must make its secretaries into data analysts and coders or else get left behind in the new digital world? It doesn’t, as long as companies democratize easy-to-use software across their organizations, according ...

Enterprises answering complex big data problems with similarly complex software “solutions” are burying themselves deeper in the weeds, according to David Hseih (pictured), senior vice president of marketing at Qubole Inc. “We really believe that complexity is just killing big data,” Hseih told Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick) and George Gilbert (@ggilbert41), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, ...