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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Oracle unveils new Cloud services at Oracle Cloud Launch | #datacenter

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

During today’s Oracle Cloud Launch, held at the Oracle Convention Center in Redwood Shores, California, the company will announce new Oracle Cloud Platform services. The expansion of its PaaS was a logical step, according to Carl Olofson, Oracle’s Research VP, Data Management …

Spark and Databricks change the data playing field | #sparkinsight

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

IBM’s support for Apache Spark “throws a huge endorsement to the community and to customers as a way to telegraph what’s next,” said theCUBE cohost John Furrier. At IBM Spark, held in conjunction with Spark Summit, thought leaders got a sense of …

IBM Commerce sees major performance increases with Spark | #sparkinsight

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

IBM Commerce goes under the covers of marketing, merchandising and B2B commerce, and it adds analytics to improve user interaction and the decisions that get made inside those applications. IBM Commerce’s principal scientist Robert Parkin told theCUBE during IBM Spark 2015 that …

3 ways Spark will fuel innovation at IBM | #sparkinsight

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

IBM’s collaboration with Spark will fuel innovation in three ways, according to Harriet Fryman, VP of portfolio marketing for IBM Analytics. Use cases will involve “highly interactive analysis; compute-intensive algorithms; and getting insight to drive applications and processes,” she shared with SiliconANGLE’s …

Apache Spark community comes together at Spark Summit | #sparkinsight

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

IBM is showing its support for Apache Spark in a big way at Spark Summit, a three-day event packed with lectures from leading production users of Spark, Spark SQL, Spark Streaming and related projects. Attendees will learn where project development is going …

Spark for next-gen data: Why IBM is jazzed about the team up | #sparkinsight

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

According to Joel Horwitz, worldwide director of portfolio marketing, Big Data & Analytics for IBM, the energy in the office is infectious. After years of planning, IBM’s collaboration with Apache Spark has come to fruition. “This is a new way of thinking …

Hadoop poised to transform the IT landscape | #HadoopSummit

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Rob Bearden, CEO of Hortonworks, Inc., which develops and supports Apache Hadoop, sees the hard work of the past few years coming into fruition. The market is on the brink of a positive explosion, theCUBE cohost John Furrier believes, which explains Bearden’s …

Hadoop helps users get value out of data | #HadoopSummit

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Now that Hadoop has become something of a buzz word, more businesses want to use Hadoop to get value out of their data. Recognizing this need, IBM recently announced that it will make Hadoop available as a service on Cloud, particularly with …

IT partners team with enterprise to assemble complex data puzzle | #HadoopSummit

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Two heads are better than one, the common saying goes, especially when those heads belong to a federation comprised of EMC, Pivotal Software, Inc., VMware, Inc. and RSA Security, Inc. On theCUBE during the Hadoop Summit 2015, Michael Cucchi, Pivotal’s senior director of …

Nutanix remains hungry, honest, humble | #NEXTConf

NEWS By HEATHER JOHNSON11 YEARS AGO

Nutanix, Inc. President and CEO Dheeraj Pandey follow a “three H” philosophy: remain hungry, honest and humble. “Within our family of employees, customers and partners, we’re extremely subservient,” said Pandey. “With the competition we’re different, because we don’t have an overlap of …

Heather Johnson

Latest from Heather Johnson

Oracle unveils new Cloud services at Oracle Cloud Launch | #datacenter

Spark and Databricks change the data playing field | #sparkinsight

IBM Commerce sees major performance increases with Spark | #sparkinsight

3 ways Spark will fuel innovation at IBM | #sparkinsight

Apache Spark community comes together at Spark Summit | #sparkinsight

Spark for next-gen data: Why IBM is jazzed about the team up | #sparkinsight

Hadoop poised to transform the IT landscape | #HadoopSummit

Hadoop helps users get value out of data | #HadoopSummit

IT partners team with enterprise to assemble complex data puzzle | #HadoopSummit

Nutanix remains hungry, honest, humble | #NEXTConf

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