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Demystifying the complexities of Spark and Hadoop | #SparkSummit
There is a lot of confusion around about Spark and Hadoop, but Matthew Hunt, head of Big Data at Bloomberg LP, thinks this is only due to a lack of understanding. In an interview at Spark Summit East 2016 at the New York Hilton Midtown in NYC, Hunt talked with Jeff Frick and George Gilbert, ...
Spark gives Eyeview ‘speed vision’ on ad performance analytics | #SparkSummit
Eyeview, Inc. is focused on increasing ROI for their clients. The video advertising technology company uses Spark as the basis for its personalized video advertising platform to speed access to usable data and allow marketers easy access to analytics. In an interview at Spark Summit East 2016 at the New York Hilton Midtown in NYC, ...
Spark solutions: Making life easier for data scientists | #SparkSummit
“We are trying to make it easy to plug these models into the same interface …” “We have focused on making it easy for people to contribute to Spark …” “Just compute the thing you need and get out of there …” There’s a common theme to theCUBE’s conversation with Matei Zaharia, CTO of Databricks, ...
From geek to business … and back again | #SparkSummit
Since the emergence of Big Data, companies have been building solutions and watching the impact of new technology as it happens. And MapR Technologies, Inc. has been there since the beginning. Dave Vellante, cohost of theCUBE from the SiliconANGLE Media team, sees the cycle coming full circle, from the first days of geeking out, through ...
Siemens IT audit wields analytical weaponry | #RMWisdom16
You wouldn’t normally think of predictive analytics as the domain of an IT audit department, but Siemens AG is taking the opinion out of audit discussions and using an analytical approach that allows its auditors to become problem solvers that help business units to improve operational efficiency. Boris Scharinger, director, IT auditor at Siemens, talked ...
Data shows that aliens love America! | #RMWisdom16
Data on alien sightings shows a spike on July 4th, but does that mean that aliens love America? David Weisman, Ph.D., adjunct professor of biology – computational data mining of very large biological data sets; systems and network biology; and bioinformatics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, makes the point that data can tell a ...
Drinking wine in the cloud at Hana Haus | #HCPmeetup
Drawing a parallel between the science of wine making and developing applications in the cloud, Emily Mui, senior director of HANA Cloud Product Marketing for global enterprise application software leader SAP SE, chatted with John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the recent HANA Cloud Platform (HCP) sponsored wine-tasting at the Hana Haus in Palo Alto, CA. ...
How SearchYourCloud became ‘blindingly’ fast | #HCPmeetup
What is the value in partnering with the SAP HANA Cloud Platform (HCP)? In an interview at the recent Hana Haus Meetup in Palo Alto, CA, John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, asked Simon Bain, CEO of cloud search and security solutions provider SearchYourCloud, Inc., about SearchYourCloud’s relationship with SAP SE and partnering with HCP. ...
UK’s National Health System transitions to hybrid infrastructure and reduces response time by 90% | #HPEDiscover
The main theme of the HPE Discover 2015 event in London is the transformation to hybrid infrastructure, with companies now ready to move forward and start the transition. The UK’s National Health System (NHS) offers the perfect example of a large organization partnering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) to transform from traditional to hybrid infrastructure. ...
How HPE Synergy aims to solve the ‘layer cake’ problem | #HPEDiscover
The top priority of HPE’s Manoj Nair is making infrastructure simple to consume. “Developers don’t want to think about infrastructure and all the details underneath,” said Nair, who is the VP of product management of Converged Data Center Infrastructure at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE). Nair spoke with Dave Vellante and John Furrier, cohosts of theCUBE, from ...
