George Gilbert

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From SaaS to Service as Software: Inside Marc Benioff’s plan to upend enterprise software

Everyone’s talking about enterprise AI agents, but few are ready for what it really takes to make them work. Thousands of startups are building narrow-purpose agents, especially for customer-facing tasks. But real enterprise transformation demands more than just spinning up chatbots — …

What is a data platform?

BIG DATA By GEORGE GILBERT3 YEARS AGO

This high-level definition of a data platform is meant to help frame conversations about the category and compare vendors and their place in it. The definition itself is a moving target since the technology is evolving so fast. And different vendors want …

Databricks’ Delta highlights the need for integration to simplify big data

BIG DATA By GEORGE GILBERT9 YEARS AGO

For all the business benefits of big data, the big problem is that mainstream enterprises have had to fit together many pieces of software and services themselves, causing many to choke on the complexity. That’s the problem Databricks Inc. aims to solve …

Analysis: Cloudera’s biggest hurdle in the cloud era is … the cloud

BIG DATA By GEORGE GILBERT9 YEARS AGO

More than the newest hot stock after its successful initial public offering today, Cloudera Inc. has an opportunity to take advantage of a once-in-a-generation shift to a new platform for applications that inform or automate decisions with ever-better and ever-faster answers. But …

Summary: Wikibon’s 2017 Big Data and Analytics Forecast

BIG DATA By GEORGE GILBERT9 YEARS AGO

Wikibon recently completed its 2017 Big Data Worldwide Forecast. Authored by Wikibon analyst George Gilbert, with help from Wikibon’s Ralph Finos and Peter Burris, the report covers market sizing, growth and trends. This year, we focused specifically on the big data software …

HengFeng Bank builds foundation for the future with unified platform for analytics and customer engagement

SPONSOR POSTS By GEORGE GILBERT10 YEARS AGO

This is a sponsored post commissioned by Transwarp Technology Co. Ltd. Sponsor Posts are paid posts that appear on all pages of SiliconANGLE.com, supporting editorial efforts. For pricing and inquiries, email sponsor@siliconangle.com. Based in the coastal city of Yantai in China’s Shandong …

Wikibon trip report from IBM’s Watson developer conference: Keep it simple, geniuses

BIG DATA By GEORGE GILBERT10 YEARS AGO

IBM Corp. demonstrated at its first Watson Developer Conference last week that it has successfully hidden enough of the “rocket science” in machine learning to excite a crowd of 1,300 mainstream developers. That’s right: I said developers, not data scientists. IBM is …

Here are the three prime scenarios for Amazon Web Services’ big reveal on Thursday

BIG DATA By GEORGE GILBERT10 YEARS AGO

As Amazon Web Services prepares to make a “significant announcement” at a press conference in San Francisco Thursday afternoon, speculation is flying about what the leading public cloud unit of Amazon.com Inc. will unveil. As SiliconANGLE reported last week, at least part …

Identity crisis threatens to sideline Hadoop as the leader of Big Data

BIG DATA By GEORGE GILBERT10 YEARS AGO

The rapid proliferation of Big Data software has made it unclear what Hadoop stands for today.

Analyst trip report: Teradata embraces new world of Big Data

WIKIBON By GEORGE GILBERT10 YEARS AGO

When I spent several days at Teradata Corp.’s recent annual analyst event in La Jolla, Calif., I had expected to be treated to a stream of technical details about hardware architectures, database technology comparisons and Business Intelligence (BI) vendor positioning. I was …

George Gilbert

Latest from George Gilbert

From SaaS to Service as Software: Inside Marc Benioff’s plan to upend enterprise software

What is a data platform?

Summary: Wikibon’s 2017 Big Data and Analytics Forecast

Wikibon trip report from IBM’s Watson developer conference: Keep it simple, geniuses

Here are the three prime scenarios for Amazon Web Services’ big reveal on Thursday

Identity crisis threatens to sideline Hadoop as the leader of Big Data

Analyst trip report: Teradata embraces new world of Big Data

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