Cloud data lakes with agile and scalable compute let information technology teams do broad analysis on aggregated Industrial Internet of Things data. But folks working in the field need instant insight at the edge, according to Tripp Partain (pictured, left), global chief technical officer for OneHPE at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. “If I’m on an oil ...

Debate over machine learning models and intellectual property may scare some away from data sharing, while some strategists even allege that companies under-report big data Return On Investment to avoid tipping off competitors. If an organization’s best efforts might still result in incomplete or misleading data, algorithms must account for this, according to Tuomas Sandholm (pictured, right), ...

Apache Spark 2.2 has achieved event-by-event data streaming by trimming some fat from its execution process. So what new applications will the leaner, meaner engine drive online? “Since we began structured streaming, we tried to make sure the API [Application Programming Interface] is not tied in with micro-batching in any way, and so this is ...

These are gloomy days for hardware legacy companies like Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., which saw vanishing sales last quarter. But is there a happier, if untold, story unfolding in open-source compute projects? “I think we’re going to see a hardware renaissance,” John Furrier (@furrier) (pictured, left) told Dave Vellante (@dvellante) (pictured, right), as the co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE ...

Artificial intelligence workloads are set to increase 12-fold by 2020, according to Michael Greene (pictured), vice president, Software and Service Group, and general manager of system technologies and optimization at Intel Corp. Scalable hardware-software integrations better get cracking to accommodate them, Greene said today during Spark Summit in San Francisco, California. “We need to make sure ...

Apache has announced that its Spark 2.2 release will finally break from near real-time data streaming into true real-time, event-by-event streaming. How is this difference of milliseconds relevant, anyway? “Your streaming capabilities dictate the class of apps that you’re appropriate for,” George Gilbert (@ggilbert41) (pictured, right) told David Goad (pictured, left), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile ...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s poor second-quarter earnings report and dwindling stock prices might frustrate the company’s execs, but they ought not surprise them. “Essentially, it’s facing what most legacy hardware companies are facing,” Dave Vellante (@dvellante) (pictured, left) told John Furrier (@furrier) (pictured, right), as the co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, examined HPE’s market struggles ...

Comparing storage types, one quickly gets tangled in terms like spinning disks, solid state drives and non-volatile memory express methods. There is one simple test for all, according to Itzik Reich (pictured), chief technical officer, XtremIO, at Dell EMC, Dell Technologies Inc.’s infrastructure group. “How quick can you make the query, whether it’s a database application or a ...

With XtremIO X2, Dell EMC, Dell Technologies Inc.’s infrastructure group, aims to alter customers’ expectations of what an all-flash storage array can do with its enhanced Integrated Copy Data Management, said Arindam Paul, senior consultant of product marketing at Dell EMC, Dell Technologies Inc.’s infrastructure group. “Copy data management, when done right like we do on ...

Awaiting a verdict on the on-prem versus all-cloud debate, most enterprises will employ both. This presents tricky data protection and recovery problems, according to Beth Phalen (pictured, right), president of the Data Protection Division at Dell EMC, Dell Technologies Inc.’s infrastructure group. “One of the things we talk about is people moving a way from data centers to centers of ...