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Converged Infrastructure + Data Protection in Virtualization | #VMworld
For the second time at VMworld, Rodney Perkins, IT Director Farmers Insurance Group FCU, was interviewed by John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, about the virtualization that took the world by storm. Looking back to the time when Perkins started with Farmers, only three years ago, the virtualization was just taking hold and there ...
This Is One of the Biggest Technology Disruptions You’ll Ever See | #VMworld
From Moscone Center in San Francisco, Stu Miniman and John Furrier kicked off VMWorld 2013 with Kelly Herrell, VP and GM, Software Networking Business Unit, Vyatta, a Brocade company. Kelly was the CEO of Vyatta prior to its acquisition by Brocade, providing software defined solutions before software-defined was a mainstream term. His current responsibilities with ...
Enabling Market Share Growth: HP + Vertica = Satisfied Partners | #HPBigData2013
Having traveled to Boston for the HP Big Data Conference, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCube co-hosts, tracked down the big names in the industry to discuss the hot topics of the hour, and current industry trends. The focus of the event was on Vertica’s customers and the business intelligence. Andrew MacBean, VP of Vertica ...
Tyranny Through Surveillance Could Affect Exercising Ordinary Freedom | #HPBigData2013
For the last day of HP Big Data Conference 2013, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante managed to persuade a couple of iconic figures to sit down and discuss the hottest topics of the moment. One of these high profile guests was Curt Monash, President of Monash Research and “a long time industry analyst, ...
Winning the Elections with Big Data : Obama’s Team of Newbies
During the last day of the HP Vertica Big Data Conference in Boston, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante had a very interesting talk with Chris Wegryzyn, Director of Data Architecture, Democratic National Committee, talking about the impact of Big Data in political campaigns. Talking from his personal experience, Wegryzyn was able to provide ...
In an Open World, HP has 3 Types of Partners | #HPBigData2013
Updated with full video – see below. Broadcasting live from Boston, from HP Vertica Big Data Conference, theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante sat down with Chris Selland, HP Vertica’s VP of Marketing, to talk about this week’s event, which turns out to be his brainchild. The trio also discussed HP’s strategy for the ...
Who Owns Your Data Strategy? The Symbiosis Between Vertica + Attunity | #HPBigData2013
Updated with full video – see below. John Furrier and Dave Vellante are camping out in Boston for a couple of days, to cover the HP Vertica Big Data Conference, in full swing this week. One of the first people to be interviewed for theCUBE’s live broadcast was Lawrence Schwartz, VP of Marketing with Attunity. ...
Lack of Data Quality Was a Fundamental Component of the Financial Crisis | #MITIQ
Dave Vellante and Paul Gillin, theCube co-hosts, went live from MITIQ 2013, the Conference dedicated exclusively to Information Quality, talking to Justin Magruder, President and Senior Managing Director at Noetic Partners. Magruder’s solid background in finance made for a very interesting chat around the issues of decision-making, money-lending and safe investments. In Magruder’s opinion, “managing ...
Advocating a “Crawl-Walk-Run” Approach | #MITIQ
The last day of the MITIQ 2013 Conference was dedicated exclusively to Information Quality. Dave Vellante and Paul Gillin, theCube co-hosts, spent some time speaking with Peter Aiken, Founding Director and Owner at Data Blueprint, about new trends, including those pertaining to company strategy. “Most companies don’t have a Chief Data Officer. Should they?” asked ...
Risk Adjustment Evolves With the Data | #MITIQ
Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly, theCube co-hosts, went to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to cover this year’s Chief Data Officer and Information Quality (CDOIQ) Symposium, taking place from July 17 to 19 in the MIT campus. The event strives to bring together practitioners, vendors and educators in the field of Information Quality. Among the attendees was David ...