UPDATED 12:16 EDT / JUNE 01 2017

CLOUD

Qubole vies to ‘out-cloud’ competition and win enterprise DataOps

DataOps — or the mashing of data, analytics and operations — is tricky business doable with (but not without) cloud software as a service, according to Ashish Thusoo (pictured, left), co-founder and chief executive officer of Qubole Inc.

“The systems that do real-time are different from the systems that do analytics are different from the systems that do operational stuff,” Thusoo said.

It is not feasible to build a single system that is inherently all three, he explained. The solutions, though, can encompass all of them,” Thusoo added.

Qubole brings such solutions to market with its dual cloud-native structure and big data expertise. It brings these different systems into its cloud, then renders them as a service to customers mercifully spared the underlying mechanics.

Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma (pictured, right), co-founder and head of Qubole India, spoke with Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick) and George Gilbert (@ggilbert41), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, during Data Platforms 2017 in Litchfield Park, Arizona. (* Disclosure below.)

Thusoo and Sarma formed these enterprise big data services partly with knowledge gleaned while working at Facebook. They’ve related some of these lessons in a new book called “Creating a Data-Driven Enterprise With DataOps.”

Seeing firsthand how Facebook, begun in a physical data center, struggled with cloud adoption, Qubole waves its cloud-native flag surely. It’s highly difficult for on-prem legacies to transition to the cloud — and they simply cannot operate or serve customers as swiftly as cloud-native startups, according to Sarma.

Software vs. cloudware

Even companies with “cloud” all over their packaging may still have some traditional infrastructure or licensed software underpinnings holding them back, Sarma stated. The cadence of software updates is a case in point, he added.

Companies like Cloudera Inc. and Hortonworks Inc. put out new releases perhaps every six months. “We are pushing software almost every week,” Sarma said. “If I have a problem as a customer today and I want to get it fixed by my vendor, Qubole can make a patch, can fix it and push it almost immediately,” he added, noting how this makes a business tremendously more agile.

Moving at a breakneck pace without upsetting customers’ workloads or issuing bugs is possible — and only just possible — through Qubole’s cloud-native services architecture, he stated.  “And this is a very big challenge for us — I’ll be frank, this is not a trivial problem, but that’s what we solve,” he said.

Watch the complete video interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s independent editorial coverage of Data Platforms 2017. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for Data Platforms 2017. Neither Qubole Inc. nor other sponsors have editorial influence on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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