James Kobielus

James Kobielus is @theCUBE and Wikibon lead analyst for AI, data, data science, deep learning and application development. Previously, Jim was IBM Corp.'s data science evangelist. He managed IBM's thought leadership, social and influencer marketing programs targeted at developers of big data analytics, machine learning and cognitive computing applications. Prior to his five-year stint at IBM, Jim was an analyst at Forrester Research, Current Analysis and the Burton Group. He is also a prolific blogger, a popular speaker and a familiar face from his many appearances as an expert on theCUBE and at industry events.

Latest from James Kobielus

At Tableau Conference, AI drives the business intelligence experience but Salesforce integration remains AWOL

BIG DATA By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

Business intelligence has evolved far from its traditional focus on historical analytics and batch operational reporting. The latest generation of BI products are focused on self-service predictive capabilities to enable business users to do many things that once required either a BI …

At Ignite, Microsoft convincingly addresses the multicloud imperative

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has fresh momentum in the cloud wars. For starters, Microsoft was recently awarded the U.S. Department of Defense’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure or JEDI contract. For another, the company has just announced a broad range of enhancements to its Azure …

At Evolve, ASG debuts low-code tooling for digital process automation

APPS By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

“Low code” is a catch-all for every visual, model-driven development tool now on the market. As a result, the phrase has outlived its usefulness as a market segmentation label. Doing ‘low code’ agile process automation When a company touts its development tool …

As Hadoop wanes, Cloudera aims to accelerate multicloud data science pipelines

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

Big-data pioneer Cloudera Inc. has made a successful transition to the post-Hadoop era. As was evident in its announcements today, the company has evolved its solution portfolio and customer adoption well beyond that open-source big-data platform — which, though still very much a key platform …

At OpenWorld, Oracle struggles to move the cloud needle its way

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

The cloud wars continue to intensify, and Oracle Corp. is definitely not retrenching. As illustrated by its primary announcements this week at its OpenWorld 2019 conference in San Francisco, the company has doubled down on the same strategies that drove the chief announcements at …

Surprise: Next-generation virtual machines will help power multicloud computing

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

Hypervisor technology has been one of the building blocks of cloud computing from the start. In recent years, though, this method of “virtualization” to separate a computer’s operating system and applications from the underlying hardware has begun to feel more like a legacy approach …

At VMworld, VMware bets big on convergence of virtual machines and containers

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

VMware Inc. made a wide range of announcements this week that advance its competitive positioning in multicloud computing. One of those announcements stands out as a classic “bet the business” gambit: the “Project Pacific” core of the company’s forthcoming Tanzu Portfolio. Launched in …

Company profile: H20.ai sprinkles in new risk mitigation features

AI By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence has become the intelligent nerve center of most cloud applications. However, AI has also become a major risk factor in many modern enterprises. AI’s risks may stem from design limitations in a specific buildout of the technology, such as when a machine learning model …

VMware’s ‘Switzerland’ cloud partnership strategy will be a key focus at upcoming VMworld

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

Public cloud rivalries have spawned a surprising early favorite, and it’s none of the usual suspects — Amazon Web Services Inc., Microsoft Corp.’s Azure or Google LLC’s Cloud Platform — nor is it a hot startup. Rather, VMware Inc., the 20-year-old virtualization …

Hybrid cloud computing hits an inflection point

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS7 YEARS AGO

The promise of a true private cloud is that it should not matter where you place your most demanding workloads. True private clouds are those in which performance is consistently fast and efficient, regardless of whether an enterprise’s workloads run on-premised or …

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At Evolve, ASG debuts low-code tooling for digital process automation

Company profile: H20.ai sprinkles in new risk mitigation features

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