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Healthcare data useless without future predictions, family involvement | #IBMIoD

John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, kicked off our coverage of IBM Information on Demand 2013 in Las Vegas by interviewing Dr. Tim G. Buchman, Professor of Surgery at the Emory University School of Medicine. It’s a new era of business, admitted Buchman, because there’s the pressure to take care of more patients at ...

From hype to deployment : The Data Economy has arrived | #BigDataNYC

Merv Adrian, VP of Gartner, was asked by John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, to recap the evolution of Hadoop, in an interview that took place at our BigDataNYC event in New York this week. “If Hadoop were a baby, it has gone from why and where to how and who,” said Adrian. “This ...

From NSA to open source : Apps are ‘nuggets of innovaton,’ says Sqrrl | #BigDataNYC

Adam Fuchs, CTO of sqrrl, had a noteworthy chat with Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly at the BigDataNYC 2013 event in New York, covering topics ranging from the Big data lessons learned at the NSA to the NoSQL database. Because Apache Accumulo was initially developed within the NSA, everyone was expecting Fuchs to divulge some juicy ...

Spotify built for data from the start : Shares with all employees | #BigDataNYC

Wouter de Bie, Team Lead of Data Infrastructure with Spotify, was interviewed by theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, at #BigDataNYC 2013 in New York. “Big data is changing the landscape of the business front, and there’s still a lot of technical opportunities with it, especially with open source.” noted Furrier. For this segment, ...

2014, the year of Big Data applications | #BigDataNYC 2013

Bruno Aziza, Chief Marketing Officer with Alpine Data Labs, sat down with John Furrier and Dave Vellante at Big Data NYC 2013 to talk about Big Data-related issues and the surprising women in tech. One of their Ignite Talks is called “Why women make better data scientists”. Alpine Data Labs focuses on advanced analytics on ...

Using Splunk to Do Stuff It’s Not Supposed to Do | #splunkconf

“Saving the best for last” at Splunk.conf 2013 in Las Vegas, our program hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante invited Shawn Rogers to theCUBE, to talk about the newest releases from Splunk, the trends, while also recapping the whole event. Shawn Rogers is the Vice President of Research, Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing with Enterprise ...

Can Splunk Make the Nation More Secure? | #splunkconf

Mark Seward, Senior Director of Security and Compliance Marketing with Splunk, talked with John Furrier and Dave Vellante at Splunk.conf 2013 in Las Vegas, covering the data management platform and various security issues. Furrier started the interview by pointing out that a lot of people are using Seward’s product for security and compliance reasons, and ...

ADP Says “Splunk is Critical” to Its Success | #splunkconf

Jigesh Saheba, the CTO, VP and Chief Architect and Mobile Strategist at ADP, was interviewed by theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at the Splunk.conf 2013 in Las Vegas. Because many people don’t yet associate ADP as a technology company, or an apps company, Vellante invited his guest to talk more about ADP’s ...

Systems Engineer Excited for Splunk 6: “Sky’s the Limit” | #splunkconf

Jeff Kelly and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts for this segment, welcomed Ant Lefebvre, a senior systems engineer with Middlesex Hospital, to talk in depth about his application of Splunk in the healthcare business at the Splunk.conf 2013. Today Ant is also leading a presentation at the event, called “HIPAA and Meaningful Use Audit Reports Using ...

Splunk is Tailoring New Trends in Retail | #splunkconf

Aleem Cummins, Release Manager with John Lewis, joined John Furrier and Dave Vellante inside theCUBE, during day two of the Splunk.conf13 in Las Vegas, describing how a huge UK department store with a major online presence benefits from using the data management platform. Retail business is going through some massive transformations, noted Vellante, and Cummins provided ...