Ryan Cox
Latest from Ryan Cox
Flash Doesn’t Have to Mean Slower Anymore : Price + Software Mature the Cloud
One of the more interesting interviews from last month’s Strata event, for me personally, was when Brian Bulkowski, CTO of Aerospike joined theCube hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante to talk Flash. In-Memory databases are here to stay, even filling into its own market. In the interview, Bulkowski discusses how software-led is the next maturation ...
Quancast’s Gift to Open Source: Room to Grow Big Data
Quantcast, by its own admission, has been dealing in Big Data since 2006 — before it was cool. Jim Kelly, VP Research and Development at Quantcast stopped by theCube during Strata last month to give some background on the Quantcast File System (QFS). As an alternative to HTFS and free to the open source community, ...
Microsoft + Hortonworks: Hadoop Besties
Hadoop has become the defacto platform for open source data storage. Microsoft, known for its proprietary software, is making a splash in the open source community with its partnership with Hortonworks. Herain Oberoi, Director of Product Marketing for Server & Tools Business (STB) at Microsoft, and John Kreisa, VP of Marketing at Hortonworks, popped into ...
“There is No Such Thing as Raw Data”
The days where you can view data as a static thing are over. Kaput. No mas. Peter Wang, Co-Founder & President of Continuum Analytics, was kind enough to join John Furrier and Dave Vellante on theCube last week at Strata to discuss predictive analytics, Big Data, scientific computing, and the moving of more and more ...
Former Netflix Data Scientist Finds Smaller Data Sets “Less Daunting” for Fashion Algorithms
Eric Colson, Chief Analytics Officer of StitchFix, stopped by theCube to talk with hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante about their recommendation engine. Often referred to as Pandora meets Zappos, StitchFix is powered by a recommendation engine for purchasing clothes (full interview below). But wait, hold your horses. How’s that again? “Algorithmically-chosen clothing. So it’s ...
“A Little Known Secret is that Data Wanders Over Time.” WANdisco CTO Reveals the Fix
2013 is the year of advancing Hadoop implementation from prototype to production. David Richards, CEO and Jagane Sundar, CTO & VP of Engineering of Big Data at WANdisco made their companies predictions clear when they sat down with theCube hosts John Ferrier and Dave Vellante at Strata this week. The business values are high with this fulfillment of ...
Hortonworks Hadoop Establishes Largest Big Data Platform with Linux + Windows Distributions
Hortonworks, while having been spun off from the original Hadoop initiative at Yahoo that’s driven so many of Big Data’s recent victories, is relatively new as a standalone operation. And as several vendors and small players alike race to launch their own Hadoop distro, the competition is getting fierce. To best position itself in the ...
Big Data, Big Apps, Big Market Opportunity for Continuuity
Big money players are entering the Big Data Hadoop marketplace. Todd Papaioannou, CEO of Continuuity, was all smiles when he stated, “it’s good for us.” A long-time friend to theCube, he stopped in to discuss with hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante the roadblocks he sees from developers around Hadoop, and what Continuuity is doing ...
MapR – Very Comfortable Leading from the Front
MapR is very comfortable with its position in the marketplace, according to Jack Norris, the analytics firm’s CMO. “The article in Forbes says it best: MapR had it right all along.” He is referring to its production-class ready Hadoop offerings. Norris stopped by theCube to talk with show hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante about ...
Tim O’Reilly’s Top Predictions from Strata 2013: Black Hat Data Scientists Are Coming Soon
Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media and the organizer of the Strata conference we’ve been broadcasting from live this week, stopped by theCube to chat with show hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Strata is growing, a lot like Big Data, with bottom-up organic growth. In it’s fifth year, O’Reilly wants to remind conference goers “…not to ...
