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Is EMC’s merger with Dell changing the shape of its converged infrastructure?
EMC Corp. was known for sandwiching technologies into converged infrastructure before merging with Dell to form Dell Technologies Inc. Will it go on creating those systems independently or bring in new ingredients and influences through the merger? The company’s VxRack System with FLEX, a converged infrastructure product, provides a hint. “It’s leveraging, really, the best of our software-defined, ...
Will Wasabi’s cheap, fast commodity storage disrupt Amazon S3?
After starting six companies with fellow tech veteran Jeff Flowers since 1980, Wasabi Technologies Inc. co-founder David Friend (@Wasabi_Dave) (pictured, left) has clearly learned to name names when it comes to competition. “If you know what Amazon S3 cloud storage is, you pretty much know what Wasabi is — except we’re one fifth the price and ...
Qubole vies to ‘out-cloud’ competition and win enterprise DataOps
DataOps — or the mashing of data, analytics and operations — is tricky business doable with (but not without) cloud software as a service, according to Ashish Thusoo (pictured, left), co-founder and chief executive officer of Qubole Inc. “The systems that do real-time are different from the systems that do analytics are different from the systems that ...
Real-time data is as good as its analytics, says Twitter alumnus
To get their real-time data acts together, companies might take a tip from a guy who helped build Twitter, a site synonymous with always-on streams. First off, Apache Hadoop’s big data framework doesn’t have the brains for real-time, according to Karthik Ramaswamy (pictured), formerly engineering manager at Twitter and now co-founder of Streamlio, an enterprise real-time data ...
Imagine there’s no data — with virtualized DataOps
Can computing bottlenecks and storage costs be slashed in one throw with data operations using read/write capable virtual data? The database — and physical data in general — often chokes infrastructure agility with its manual procedures and costly space requirements, according to Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman (pictured), technical intelligence manager for the office of the chief technology officer at ...
How this company got cautious staffers to upgrade its big data analytics
It’s tough for businesses to choose analytics tools to last when the only constant in big data technology is change. Finally installing it and getting back to work often presents the opposite problem. “One thing that seems to be constant is resistance to change in a lot of places,” said Colin Riddell (pictured), big data platform architect ...
Beginner’s luck: Can Qubole steal big data game from Hortonworks, Cloudera?
Building big data platforms on-premises looks like a fool’s errand as expanding data spills out the windows and customers opt for knob-less service models. This became clear one year ago at HortonWorks’ DataWorks Summit in San Jose, California, for George Gilbert (@ggilbert41) (pictured, right), co-host of of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio. “That was ...
With machine learning, data-rich Oracle spreads the love to smaller businesses
Could inroads to outside data and machine learning computing capabilities let modest-sized companies market to customers like an eBay Inc. or Amazon.com? They can, according to Alex Sadovsky (pictured), director of data science at Oracle Data Cloud. ODC is combining data from Oracle Corp. and other sources with Apache Spark’s machine learning data analytics engine to ...
Is there a cloud storage P&L report on-prem legacies don’t want you to see?
On-premise infrastructure proponents are quick to point out the cost-wall enterprises hit in cloud storage, but their arguments don’t fairly weigh the pros and cons, according to Mick Bass (pictured), chief executive officer of 47Lining LLC. “Your data lake has a profit and loss statement,” Bass told George Gilbert (@ggilbert41) and Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s ...
Why DIY? Should analytics be outsourced to cloud services?
Many are realizing there is little to fear and much to gain from outsourcing data to cloud service providers, according to Tripp Smith (pictured), chief technical officer at Clarity Solution Group LLC (Clarity Insights). “If you had money, you wouldn’t put it in your safe at home; you would put it in a bank,” Smith said, ...