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You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know About Big Data | #tcc13

Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly, theCUBE co-hosts, broadcasted live from the 2013 Tableau Customer Conference this week in Washington DC, interviewing Rich Ghiossi, VP of Marketing with Treasure Data. Previously employed as VP of Marketing at ParAccel, Ghiossi is responsible for developing and executing Treasure Data’s marketing and communications strategy. In their own words, Treasure ...

Insight Into the World of Human-Created Information | #tcc13

The 2013 Tableau Customer Conference is taking place this week at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The key speakers are being interviewed by theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante, Wikibon Senior Analyst, and Jeff Kelly, Principal Research Contributor at Wikibon. They caught up with Rik Tamm-Daniels, VP of Technology with Attivio, a ...

Tableau For Mac + Other Product Updates : Because Data Doesn’t Happen In A Silo | #tcc13

Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly, theCUBE co-hosts, broadcasted live from the 2013 Tableau Customer Conference in Washington DC, talking to the tech athletes and listening to their thoughts regarding current trends, metrics and new releases. During his CUBE interview, Dan Jewett, Vice President of Product Management with Tableau, explained the company’s policy for the immediate ...

Tableau Not Looking for Acquisitions: CFO Speaks On IPO, Global Growth Strategy | #tcc13

In the same winning formula, Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly, theCUBE co-hosts, broadcasted live from the 2013 Tableau Customer Conference in Washington DC, talking to Tom Walker, CFO of Tableau Software. A bold move in Vellante’s eyes was the recent IPO Tableau initiated. Tom Walker explained: “It’s just another chapter in Tableau’s story. It was ...

Adobe Should Acquire Tableau, says Analyst | #tcc13

Broadcasting live from the 2013 Tableau Customer Conference in Washington DC, theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante, Wikibon Senior Analyst, and Jeff Kelly, Principal Research Contributor, spoke with one of our favorite guests Ray Wang, Co-Founder and Researcher with Constellation Research, about Business Intelligence and various trends bubbling up in this industry, including the perks of Tableau ...

The Beauty In Clean, Elegant + Simple Data | #tcc13

Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly, theCUBE co-hosts, broadcasted from the 2013 Tableau Customer Conference in Washington DC, talking to Sarah Nell, Global Corporate Account Analyst with Manpower. Historically, Manpower has been known as a staffing firm, but since the economy changed in 2009, they shifted their approach, becoming more HR-driven. One of their major components ...

Citrix : We’re Starting to Realize The Value Of Ingesting Social Data | #tcc13

From the 2013 Tableau Customer Conference in Washington DC, theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante, Wikibon Senior Analyst, and Jeff Kelly, Principal Research Contributor, managed to talk in depth with Steve Keller, Staff Software Engineer with Citrix. As expected, the segment revolved around Big Data and Tableau, as the goal of Tableau is “unlocking the power of ...

If We’re Not Surprised, We’re Not Pushing Ourselves | GE at #tcc13

The 2013 Tableau Customer Conference is currently unfolding at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Washington, D.C. The conference key speakers are being interviewed by theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante, Wikibon Senior Analyst, and Jeff Kelly, Principal Research Contributor. You can learn more about the event here. Their first guest for the day was ...

Virtualization Has Become Mainstream + Simplified Infrastructure Is Everything | #VMworld

John Furrier was joined for the last day of VMworld 2013 in San Francisco by Jeff Frick and they interviewed Vanessa Alvarez, Head of Marketing at Scale Computing, for the flagship interview series theCUBE. Alvarez is a self-proclaimed “fan of converged infrastructure” and she got to talk in depth about Scale Computing, virtualization and the ...

Software-defined Infrastructure as a Self-driving Car | #VMworld

From San Francisco, VMworld 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante speak with Iddo Kadim, Marketing Director, Data Center Group with Intel Corporation. Kadim’s team develops solutions with the ecosystem in order to expose Intel’s technologies in ways that deliver value for IT, particularly in the areas of virtualization and security. With all the hype around ...