One day, regular line-of-business people might be able to handle high-level data monetization themselves with a do it yourself tool. Today is not that day for The Honest Co. The natural home and personal care brand, co-founded by actress Jessica Alba, acquired and integrated a big data software as a service startup called Insnap Inc. in ...

Remember when worries about security and uptime dampened conversations about cloud infrastructure as a service? Those concerns that were common just a couple of years ago have nearly evaporated, according to Terry Wise (pictured), vice president of worldwide alliances, channels and ecosystem at Amazon Web Services Inc. Today, customers are more interested in the neat business-differentiating ...

Enterprise data scientists and developers fed up with data that just sits there and doesn’t make money might take heart in a prediction from Ali Ghodsi (pictured), chief executive officer and co-founder of Databricks Inc. “Data warehousing as we know it today will continue to exist; however, it will be transformed,” Ghodsi said in an interview ...

DevOps that have worked well in other areas of information technology can’t hack it in big data, according to Ash Munshi (pictured), chief executive officer of Pepperdata Inc. “While agile and all that still works, the tools don’t work,” Munshi said in an interview at this year’s Spark Summit in San Francisco, California. Tightening the loop leading ...

Big data management platform Apache Spark wants to extend its streaming capabilities to serverless application development via DataBricks Inc., a cloud-based data service founded by Spark’s creators. But will this make it harder to wield data at the Internet of Things’ edge? “I’d like to get a sense for how you optimize Spark deployments in a radically ...

With event-by-event data streaming and serverless application development, has the Apache Spark open-source community readied real-time, continuous applications for enterprise use? “They definitely turned up the volume on what they can do with continuous apps,” said George Gilbert (@ggilbert41) (pictured, right) in a discussion with David Goad (@davidgoad) (pictured, left) and James Kobielus (@jameskobielus), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s ...

Companies may want to hire talented people with a range of educational and work experience for a number of reasons. Some say that diverse and even dissonant opinions help formulate broadly appealing advertisements, for example. But old habits in the human resources department die hard. Many companies hire predictably from the same talent pool year ...

The new home of the Golden State Warriors NBA team in San Francisco, California, is shaping up to be everything one would expect from a stadium on the edge of Silicon Valley. The Warriors franchise has tapped Accenture PLC to help wire the new Chase Center with state-of-the-art technology. “We’ve been working with them to ...

Separating new-tech hype from tangible value is rarely as easy as reading vendors’ press releases. Accenture PLC operates seven labs around the globe to dig up the facts for itself. Technologies currently under investigation are blockchain, quantum computing and artificial intelligence. “I’ve lived a lot of winters of artificial intelligence; now I think, finally, maybe ...

Many are still in doubt of Amazon.com Inc.’s meandering drone plans. Meanwhile, a much smaller company called Airware Inc. has taken off with enterprise drone analytics. “You’re seeing a huge uptake in what drones can do,” said Yvonne Wassenaar (pictured), chief executive officer of Airware. A few years ago, an Airware customer could not find a drone to ...