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Poor Data Is the Root of the Problem | #MITIQ
Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly, theCUBE co-hosts, broadcasted live from the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, as part of this year’s Chief Data Officer and Information Quality (CDOIQ) Symposium. The explosion of Big Data triggered an explosion in attendance, attracting more information quality professionals (practitioners, vendors and educators) than in years past. The Symposium for ...
Using Information as a Core Strategic Tool | #MITIQ
On their never-ending quest for knowledge, Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick arrived at the MIT campus for the MIT CDOIQ Symposium, where they broadcasted live for theCube interview sessions, talking with several key people in the industry. The theme of the Symposium was “Big Data Demands Good Data” and, to elaborate on that, they caught ...
How VividCortex Deals With the Big Data Tsunami
John Furrier, the founder of Silicon Angle and theCube host, broadcasting live from the recently concluded Velocity Conference in Santa Clara, was happy to welcome two guests from a very cool start-up, pointing out that “start-ups do not feed the BS like vendors”. His guests were Kyle Redinger and Baron Schwartz, Co-Founders of VividCortex, a ...
Speed + Scale : Squeezing the Best Performance out of Every Piece of Hardware
From the recently concluded Velocity Conference, all about Web Performance, theCube co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier talked with Srini Srinivasan, VP of Engineering at Aerospike. “People really want to see the latest and greatest performance and they do not want to wait, and that powers up performance,” says Srinivasan. Spped is very important for ...
Hadoop 2.0 + YARN Will Enable New Workloads : Hadoop Summit 2013 Review
For the last interview of our Hadoop Summit 2013 coverage, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante talked to John Kreisa, VP Strategic Marketing at Hortonworks, asking him what transpired from this event, what surprised him the most, and “what came out of the woodwork”. Kreisa was pretty excited by the “great energy at the ...
To Succeed with Hadoop: Find Specific Problem Areas + Solve Them | #hadoopsummit
John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, broadcasted live from San Jose this week during Hadoop Summit 2013, inviting Stefan Groschupf, CEO and Founder of Datameer and an early contributor to Hadoop, to give his two cents about the current state of business, the adoption of Hadoop, as well as to share a couple points ...
MapR Addresses Many Issues Limiting Hadoop’s Implementation In Production Data Centers | #hadoopsummit
John Furrier and Jeff Kelly, theCUBE co-hosts, sat down with Jack Norris, CMO of MapR, for a chat revolving around issues such as the adoption of Hadoop, the improvements in clients’ performance and the Enterprise-grade efforts. What seems to have changed in this year’s event compared to the previous year, is the mentality, notes Norris. ...
eHarmony Refines the Science of Love : Hadoop + Machine Learning | #hadoopsummit
For our flagship broadcast program theCUBE, Jeff Kelly interviewed Vaclav Petricek, Principal Data Specialist with eHarmony, live from Hadoop Summit 2013, talking about long term compatibility and the underlying architecture that makes it possible. Petricek runs machine learning applications at eHarmony, in order to decide who they should introduce to whom, and when. For that, ...
Replacing Dope with Data : One Athlete Sets Out to Reform Sports | #hadoopsummit
Often describing theCUBE as “the ESPN of tech”, co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante are engaging “tech athletes” in lively conversations at Hadoop Summit this week, broadcasting live from the San Jose event. After countless interviews with these “tech athletes,” theCUBE managed to welcome an actual athlete, Sky Christopherson, former cyclist and current entrepreneur. Sky ...
After $50M Round, Hortonworks President Talks Next Steps + Market Shifts | #hadoopsummit
John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, broadcasting live from Day 2 of Hadoop Summit 2013 in San Jose today, discuss the changes in the industry and in the business model with Herb Cunitz, President of Hortonworks. Cunitz has an extensive experience in growing and managing sales and customer operations for emerging software companies, so ...