theCUBE Live At IBM Insight 2014

Broadcasting live from theCUBE this week, SiliconANGLE is at the IBM Insight conference in Las Vegas. Big Blue’s annual Big Data conference is among the industry’s largest, with over 13,000 attendees expected this year. The show will host product demos, training and networking opportunities within IBM’s ecosystem, as the technology stalwart looks to position its software services for data management and advanced analytics in the enterprise.

With live interviews today and tomorrow, theCUBE will be speaking with IBM executives, analysts, investors and customers to learn firsthand how IBM is leveraging the Big Data market for its pivot into lower margin, software-led services. Big Blue has sold off much of its high cost hardware commodities to Lenovo, shifting its efforts to enabling enterprises looking to refocus their own resources from the underlying hardware to the data-driven capabilities of infrastructure and operational efficiency.

The big question for IBM’s Big Data plan is how it will be monetized. Products like Watson are being modified for enterprise use, but are customers buying? Better yet, can IBM generate revenue around a Big Data services model when the industry is moving towards open source solutions like Hadoop?

theCUBE will be investigating these questions during this week’s coverage of IBM Insight, specifically looking to address the progress of IBM’s plan to be the datacenter of the world, which is a realistic goal, according to Wikibon.org CTO David Floyer, and further support the application layer to become a middleware powerhouse.

Watch the live broadcast here at SiliconANGLE.com or at SiliconANGLE.tv, and follow the buzz on Twitter @siliconangle.  Submit questions for our guests in real-time by joining the IBM Insight CrowdChat here, using the #ibminsight hashtag.

If you missed any of the live broadcast, you can catch up on-demand via the SiliconANGLE YouTube channel here.