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Can collaborative, open partnerships bridge the gaps for companies transforming to digital? | #BigDataSV
No individual vendor or investor can bring together all the bits and pieces to help business become truly digital, according to Joel Horwitz, director of corporate and business development, Analytics at IBM.
IBM is collaborating with a strong system of partners as it assists companies in the transformation from paper-based to digital workflow. To discuss this collaboration, Horwitz joined theCUBE (from the SiliconANGLE Media team) cohosts John Furrier (@jfurrier), cofounder and CEO of SiliconANGLE, and Peter Burris (@plburris), SiliconANGLE’s new chief research officer. The interview, which focused on open-source collaboration, took place during BigDataSV 2016 in San Jose, California, where theCUBE is celebrating #BigDataWeek, including news and events from the #StrataHadoop conference.
Open-source collaboration is the key
With data fueling the transformation to digital, Horowitz believes, “Anywhere there are paper-based processes is ripe for disruption.” This is why IBM has built a strong partner network that bridges the gaps for bringing companies to digital.
Collaboration is the future, Horwitz said, and IBM’s Bluemix cloud platform enables this by offering Platform as a Service and bringing both existing and emerging technologies together to assist businesses in their cloud transformation.
Will the eco-system outlive Hadoop?
Burris asked Horwitz to comment on the discussion about if the ecosystems around Hadoop may last longer than Hadoop itself. Horwitz agreed this is a possibility, pointing out that the community is not just Hadoop and Spark experts, or even data-scientists. He sees a need to build applications that translate data science to non-data scientists.
“The ecosystem is growing at incredible speed, and we’re trying to facilitate the conversation,” said Horowitz, directing the audience to visit community.spark.tc.
Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of BigDataSV 2016. And make sure to weigh in during theCUBE’s live coverage at the event by joining in on CrowdChat.
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