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All-cloud enterprise? Not with hybrid data, says Informatica board member
If the foundation of digital business is data, then to predict whether enterprises can go all-cloud, simply ask: Is all of their data going to the cloud? advises Jerry Held (pictured), board member of Informatica LLC and mentor at incubator Studio 9+. “Maybe if you’re a little company, you can run it all in the cloud. But ...
Can metadata and AI write a company’s disruptive business plan?
Many companies are clueless about where to begin monetizing data and digitally transforming their business models. And how do metadata and artificial intelligence technologies fit in? Deloitte Consulting LLP offers special education and coaching to help businesses suss these questions out, according to Tracy Ring (pictured), global alliance leader, analytics technologies, at Deloitte Consulting LLP. “There’s less ...
Will the real digital transformer please stand up? Informatica CEO tested on big data
Marketing 101 for today’s tech company: Tell customers it’s number one for digital transformation without telling them what that transformation is or what’s on the other side of it, because, frankly, very few know. Tuning out the bluster, John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, asked Anil Chakravarthy (pictured), chief executive officer of ...
60-second countdown: Stopping a cyber breach within 1 minute
Once cyber attackers breach an enterprise, they will likely be able to compromise it in as little as 60 seconds, according the 2016 Verizon Data Breach Report. With a single minute to stop an attack, a string of point-solutions sluggishly pinging each other is not an ideal defense for businesses, according to John Maddison, senior vice ...
Is big data 3.0 really here, or is it just another hodgepodge of software?
The trouble facing Informatica Corp. — the trouble with big data software generally — is that query tools and integration databases don’t come with manuals on how to live day-to-day as a data-driven enterprise. “It’s more than just a combination of tools; it’s more than just getting data out of applications and getting data out of ...
Customers want Veeam backup for VMware, but will partner politics trump them?
The story of data backup and recovery provider Veeam Software Inc. is about to get much more interesting thanks to two industry game-changers that took place in past months: Dell’s EMC acquisition that included VMware Inc. and VMware’s partnering with Amazon Web Services Inc. “The ascendancy of Veeam came about as a focus company on VMware ...
Data swamps can be redeemed with smart querying, says Informatica
Despite dampened hopes for data lakes, AKA “data swamps,” businesses — especially in healthcare — can’t return to locking carefully curated data under governance by a select few, according to Richard Cramer (pictured), chief healthcare strategist at Informatica LLC. “Little secret is that it takes too long, costs too much and it’s not agile,” Cramer said of that ...
Can historic Wrigley Field score tech-savvy fans by using big data?
The Chicago Cubs franchise broke the Curse of the Billy Goat at the 2016 World Series, winning for the first time in 108 years. Now can it bring century-old Wrigley Field into the Digital Age with Informatica Corp.’s big data management? “When I joined back in June of 2012, we recognized that there was really ...
Can XtremIO’s writable ‘smart’ copies clean up data copy sprawl?
Sixty percent of data that exists are actually copies, which explains why copy sprawl management is now a $40-billion business, according to research from International Data Corp.. Flash storage that allows multiple users to work on a single copy might reduce the glut, but by itself is not a perfect solution, according to Chhandomay Mandal (pictured), director ...
Informatica throws hat in AI ring with data management tool CLAIRE
In addition to brand-refresh hurrah, Informatica LLC popped the cork on Informatica World 2017 in San Francisco, California, with the announcement of CLAIRE, its new data management tool. This marks Informatica’s entrance into what Kim Salem-Jackson (pictured), senior vice president of global marketing and business development at Informatica, calls “data 3.0.” “It’s all about using intelligence of the data to innovate ...