Any organizations sick of their big data governance and customer-first initiatives falling by the wayside can rejoice that by some point next year, they will get their acts together. They’ll pretty much have to, since any company that does business in Europe could face a penalty of four percent of total revenue for breaching the new General ...

The European Union’s looming General Data Protection Regulation may make running single applications on hybrid information technology — a tricky business to begin with — even trickier, according to Roland Voelskow (pictured, right), portfolio executive of IT hosting and cloud services at T-Systems International GmbH (a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG. This is one reason T-Systems has increased its ...

Counting milliseconds in streaming data latency may not seem thrilling at first, but software developers ought to pay attention to the use cases ‘event-by-event streaming’ enables, according to George Chow (pictured), senior director of technology at Simba Technologies Inc., a Magnitude Software Inc. company. “Hitting that new threshold, the millisecond, is actually a very important milestone,” Chow said ...

As pretty as it sounds, “streaming data” in an actual database is not the elegant, unbroken chain that data scientists and developers wish it were, according to Itamar Ankorion (pictured, right), chief marketing officer at Attunity Inc. “You’re inherently building an architecture that takes what was originally a database, but you’re kind of, in a sense, breaking ...

Is cloud infrastructure really a magic wand to speed up government’s frustrating, slow-motion pace? Wouldn’t that require a cultural change as well? Never mind; cloud by itself transforms culture, according to Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. (* Disclosure below.)  “I think what people miss on why cloud is so important is ...

Lenovo Group Ltd., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Dell EMC bring to mind the phrase “legacy hardware,” so why does Lenovo keep telling us it’s not legacy? It seems the answer is in the way the company defines legacy hardware: a server-network-storage combo that is very specifically designed and difficult to change, which Lenovo is ...

Lenovo Group Ltd. is darting in all directions, partnering in software-defined enterprise infrastructure, while its mobile phones and laptops are still on sale at the local Best Buy. Is there a method to the Chinese tech giant’s madness? “We’ve seen a lot of splitting of consumer and enterprise — [Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.] cut those ...

Instead of hobbling together open-source projects, why don’t failing enterprise big data teams just buy a proprietary product guaranteed to deliver the results they seek? “In the big data space, it’s hard to avoid going down the open-source path,” said David Hsieh (pictured), chief marketing officer of Qubole Inc., a cloud-native big data platform. Open-source projects have ...

Docker Inc. made its container technology for  distributed software applications an overnight hit by putting an easy button on them. Can DataTorrent Inc., founded by Yahoo engineers, do the same for analytics? “There’s no getting away from the fact that this is big data, and it’s complex systems,” said Nathan Trueblood (pictured, right), vice president of product ...

Why are marketing conversion rates stuck at one percent despite increasing customer touchpoints and analysis tools? More channels through which to interact with a customer might make it harder to follow him or her through a single “journey,” according to Sri Raghavan (pictured), senior global product marketing manager at Teradata Corp. “We have to go to ‘place ...