During the last week of September, theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, interviewed some heavy hitters in the Big Data industry in New York City at BigDataNYC 2015. Here are some of the highlights of the series:

Joel Horwitz and Ryan Peterson

In the past, we have found that some of our guests bring exclusive newsworthy stories to theCUBE about innovative projects and partnerships. During the BigDataNYC 2015 event, Joel Horwitz, VP of Big Data marketing for IBM, and Ryan Peterson, chief solutions strategist for EMC, revealed that EMC and IBM began a collaborative project in an open-source environment in an effort to make Hadoop more accessible to the enterprise.

Read the article and watch the video, where the guests unveil how the two companies are working with the Open Data Platform initiative (ODPi), combining the forces of EMC’s Isilon and IBM’s Insights to meet the demand for customer SLAs and solutions.

Randy Swanberg

When Randy Swanberg, distinguished engineer for IBM Power Systems, joined theCUBE broadcast at  BigDataNYC 2015, he defined the investment the company made in Spark and its development of Power8 processor technology to resolve some typical problems with Hadoop.

Read the article and watch the video, where Swanberg divulged what it takes to bring Spark and Power8 together, as well as IBM’s stance on open development balanced with proprietary innovation.

Anthony Deighton

Big Data is only useful to people if they can access it and analyze it. At BigDataNYC 2015, Anthony Deighton, CTO and senior VP of products at QlikTech, Inc., joined theCUBE to examine how business intelligence is becoming easier and more effective.

Read the article and watch the video below to learn how companies like Qlik are developing groundbreaking data collection and business intelligence technology to deliver data to more enterprise stakeholders.

George Gilbert systems of intelligence presentation

Regular viewers learn a great deal from George Gilbert, Big Data and analytics analyst for Wikibon and theCUBE. At BigDataNYC 2015, he delivered an enlightening presentation to attendees about the past, present and future of systems of intelligence.

Read the article and watch the presentation below to hear Gilbert’s perspective on how operations and development needs to be cleaned up and who he believes will do it.

ODP Panel

SiliconANGLE held a panel at BigDataNYC 2015 and brought in leading experts from technology companies working with Hadoop and the Open Data Platform initiative (ODPi) to get their take on its relevance and compatibility with enterprise systems.

Read the article and watch the video below to view the panel discussion moderated by Dave Vellante, of SiliconANGLE and Wikibon, and guest speakers Shaun Connolly, VP of corporate strategy at Hortonworks, Inc.; John Fanelli, VP of marketing at DataTorrent, Inc.; and Michael Maxey, senior director of corporate development and strategy at Pivotal, Inc.

 Photo by SiliconANGLE