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Yahoo in review: A labor of love’s rise and decline | #CUBEconversations
In a move some see as inevitable, Yahoo, Inc. has thrown in the towel on its efforts to survive independently. For $4.8 billion, Verizon Communications, Inc. acquired the seminal technology company last month. In an industry that ruthlessly throws overboard the familiar in favor of the fresh, stories like Yahoo’s are all too common. We ...
VMworld preview: Hybrid storage goes head-to-head with all-flash | #CUBEconversations
It’s safe to say you can expect a lot of companies to make big announcements at this year’s VMworld conference in Las Vegas, starting on August 28. While the Dell-EMC merger is the overarching theme on everyone’s minds, there are many other questions that will be explored at the show. One of them is the ...
Think tech has an inclusion problem? Be glad you’re not in advertising | #theCUBE
The dearth of women in technology is increasingly discussed in the media and at Silicon Valley conferences. Organizations have sprung up with the aim of getting young girls interested in tech careers, but the field remains overwhelmingly male. You may be surprised to know that advertising is another field that skews heavily male, and some ...
The sharing economy: Increasing data’s value by giving it away | #theCUBE
Getting the most from your company’s data requires thinking about it as an asset — but not the way you’re used to. Assets typically imply something of value that is scarce and nonrenewable. The difference with data is that it sustains. Keeping your data siloed and separate from others in your company is not only ...
In the hyper-converged race, why are young companies leaving legacies in the dust?
As more companies bring hyper-converged infrastructure offerings to the table, there will be a separation into small, mid-market, and upper-end players — and who comes out on top may surprise you. If you’re expecting legacy giants to pull ahead and dwarf smaller players, think again. Doron Kempel, chairman and CEO of SimpliVity Corp., said there are ...
Can Spark do for machine learning what it’s done for data?
Data is rapidly simplifying, being democratized in part due to the work of open-source platform Apache Spark and its new release, Spark 2.0. Could the minds behind Spark’s data solutions make machine learning tasks just as manageable and intuitive for business environments? Joseph Bradley, Databricks, Inc. software engineer, said that Spark has a lot going for it ...
Double-team: The software/hardware sandwich that’s taking data up a level
As Spark pulls ahead as the data tool of choice for businesses, many software vendors will be dissecting their latest releases to discover what they’ve done differently. How is the open-source tool able to handle more data tasks with greater speed and accuracy? Companies out to mimic Spark will find they need to put software concerns ...
How Spark is transforming apps with data streaming
The real-time streaming enabled by Apache Spark 2.0, the newest version of the popular engine for Big Data processing, may be the best thing to happen to data so far this year. It’s difficult to think of another breakthrough that is solving so many issues for companies trying to make practical use of data. But ...
Just do it: Declarative programming for simplifying data queries
“Needle in a haystack” is one of the most commonly used phrases in discussions about Big Data. It’s a big messy job, all the more frustrating, because with a vast data lake, you know the answer is there if you could just figure out how to get at it. Write more code, combine operations, analyze ...
Questions out, decisions in: Cutting a path to monetizing data | #theCUBE
Do you work for one of the many companies waiting with bated breath for a vendor to deliver technology to answer all data questions? Think a shiny, patented software is going to come along and turn your data to dollars with the wave of a wand? Then this may surprise you: Companies already have the means to ...
