Heather Johnson

Heather is a beat writer for SiliconANGLE's premier video production team theCUBE. She covers theCUBE events worldwide, spanning expert commentary on the hottest trends in IT.

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Teradata gets behind Facebook’s Presto SQL engine | #HadoopSummit

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

By announcing a commitment to contribute to Presto’s open-source development, Teradata Corp. created new opportunities for the next-generation, open-source SQL query engine developed and used by Facebook, Inc. “We saw this as an exciting opportunity for Teradata to put its weight behind …

Hadoop changes the data landscape | #HadoopSummit

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Scott Gnau, CTO of Hortonworks, Inc., believes open computing initiative Hadoop has prompted some of the changes in the current IT landscape, and many of those changes will stick. Cloud storage gives users ease of deployment and flexibility, while open source offers …

Big Data and Hadoop have crossed the chasm | #HadoopSummit

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

A Gartner, Inc. survey reports that of the companies surveyed, 54 percent reported no plans to invest in Hadoop-based Big Data technologies. When looked at another way, almost half plan to invest within the next two years, which shows promise for Hadoop. …

A world beyond Hadoop | #HadoopSummit

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

After interviewing a top-notch lineup of Apache Hadoop, Hortonworks, Inc. and other tech industry leaders, theCUBE cohosts John Furrier and George Gilbert analyzed key issues from Hadoop Summit’s first day. “In his keynote, [Tresata Inc. CEO] Abhi Mehta said that where we …

Red Hat builds rock-solid platforms for enterprise customers | #RHSummit

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Paul Cormier, president of Product and Technologies for Red Hat, Inc., told theCUBE during Red Hat Summit 2015 that everything the company creates goes back to the open-source community. A newly acquired company may present the one exception. “If we acquire a …

Intel sees value in a diverse ecosystem | #RHSummit

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Intel strives to meet the needs of all levels of workloads, from the low end to the highest end data center. Doug Fisher, senior VP and general manager of Intel’s Software and Services Group, lines up software for data center platforms and …

Red Hat CEO reveals how to manage a business in the information age | #RHSummit

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Red Hat, Inc. CEO Jim Whitehurst didn’t always think out of the box or encourage debate among staff. As a former COO of Delta Air Lines, Inc., Whitehurst came from a traditional management background. When he joined Red Hat, his approach to …

Open source an important piece of the IT puzzle | #RHSummit

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

theCUBE cohost Stu Miniman says that there is “no doubt” that open source is an important piece of the IT puzzle. As Miniman and cohost Sam Kahane reviewed the second day of Red Hat Summit, Miniman concluded that Red Hat, Inc. now …

Ground zero for an open-source revolution | #RHSummit

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

For a relatively small company, Red Hat, inc. has become a major player in open source technology. “It is definitely more than a Linux company,” said theCUBE cohost Dave Vellante, summarizing day one of Red Hat Summit 2015. “This conference is ground …

Red Hat Summit kicks off with PaaS focus | #RHSummit

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

theCUBE cohosts Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman got Day One of Red Hat Summit underway with a discussion of Red Hat, Inc.’s role in the PaaS layer. Vellante asked Miniman if Docker could deliver such end-to-end integration. “Docker is a tool, but …

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Latest from Heather Johnson

Teradata gets behind Facebook’s Presto SQL engine | #HadoopSummit

Hadoop changes the data landscape | #HadoopSummit

Big Data and Hadoop have crossed the chasm | #HadoopSummit

A world beyond Hadoop | #HadoopSummit

Red Hat builds rock-solid platforms for enterprise customers | #RHSummit

Intel sees value in a diverse ecosystem | #RHSummit

Red Hat CEO reveals how to manage a business in the information age | #RHSummit

Open source an important piece of the IT puzzle | #RHSummit

Ground zero for an open-source revolution | #RHSummit

Red Hat Summit kicks off with PaaS focus | #RHSummit

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