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Harnessing the power of IoT for cleaner, more efficient and affordable energy | #HS16Dublin
The IoT has been heralded as the bringer of many wild and wonderful benefits, from cars that drive themselves in for repairs to fridges that order more ice cream when your supply is getting dangerously low. But British company Open Energi Ltd. is harnessing the benefits of connectivity to bring customers more efficient, more affordable, ...
Is a ‘data archipelago’ better than unified architecture? | #HS16Dublin
As Big Data is diverted from static data lakes and put into motion, there have been promises of all-in-one solutions — unified architecture for all aspects of Big Data management. Andrea Capodicasa, head of Big Data analytics at Capgemini, sees these promises as “ivory towers” and believes that a single view cannot be achieved by ...
Internet of Things brings new problems … or are they opportunities? | #BigDataSV
The Internet of Things (IoT) is bringing opportunity, but it also creates new problems for both Big Data and enterprise. Hortonworks, Inc. thinks it could have the solution. Scott Gnau, CTO of Hortonworks, returned to theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the BigDataSV 2016 event in San Jose, California, where theCUBE is celebrating #BigDataWeek, including news and ...
Has Hadoop become a headless torso? | #BigDataSV
Spark has cut the head off Hadoop by taking away compute, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which provides developers and IT teams with cloud storage, and Microsoft Azure, a cloud computing platform, have cut the legs off as the public cloud steals storage. All that Hadoop has left is the torso of YARN, a ...
Can ‘community’ break down the complexity of Big Data? | #BigDataSV
Community open-source projects are about democratization of not just data, but also analytics. The key is to understand it’s not data driven; it’s analytics driven. The next step: Break down the complexity and make it easier for data scientists to create models and publish findings as consumable information. Martin Hall, director of marketing and business ...
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 ...
BlueData Software CEO reveals the three secrets to market success | #BigDataSV
Making it easy for its customers to deploy Big Data infrastructure is the goal of BlueData Software, Inc.. Its pre-packaged software is a comprehensive solution that allows customers to go from bare-metal to up and running in as little as week, without the need for multiple admin support. Kumar Sreekanti, cofounder and CEO of BlueData Software, joined theCUBE cohosts ...
Data science, no coding required: DataRobot’s automated platform has ‘guard-rails’ for non-data scientists | #BigDataSV
The team from DataRobot, Inc. believes that every company in the world can benefit from predictive analytics, but there just aren’t enough data scientists out there to cover the demand. So its automated data analysis platform enables non-data scientists to create accurate, fast models with no coding knowledge. Chris Devaney, VP of operations at DataRobot, Inc. ...
Behind the firewall: Making cloud services invisible | #CloudWorld
The Oracle Cloud Machine brings public cloud services behind the firewall for on-prem security. Nirav Mehta, VP of product management at Oracle, joined John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, at Oracle CloudWorld 2016 in Washington, D.C. to discuss the magic behind what the Wall Street Journal is calling “Cloud computing inside-out.” As in the ...
Oracle Cloud Machine to the rescue: Can Oracle solve the federal IT budget crunch? | #CloudWorld
With IT budgets slashed, and what money there is being used to sustain aging legacy systems, the public sector is having a hard time finding funding to transition to cloud. Mark Johnson, senior VP of Oracle’s Public Sector, joined John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, at Oracle CloudWorld 2016 ...
