Cloud infrastructure and virtualization have steadily abstracted complexities away, giving rise to low-code and no-code platforms that aim to make app creators out of regular business people. “The infrastructure is slave to the app; the app is no longer slave to the infrastructure,” said Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick) (pictured, left), hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live ...

Daily sales reports may be convenient, but they can’t keep the pace with real-time data streaming between organizations, according to Saket Saurabh (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of Nexla Inc. “You cannot really take a daily sales report and feed that into your algorithm,” he said during Data Platforms 2017 in Litchfield Park, Arizona. An algorithm is only as ...

Some argue that technology geared for agility depends on an agile business culture of employees ready to use it. Does this mean a company must make its secretaries into data analysts and coders or else get left behind in the new digital world? It doesn’t, as long as companies democratize easy-to-use software across their organizations, according ...

Enterprises answering complex big data problems with similarly complex software “solutions” are burying themselves deeper in the weeds, according to David Hseih (pictured), senior vice president of marketing at Qubole Inc. “We really believe that complexity is just killing big data,” Hseih told Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick) and George Gilbert (@ggilbert41), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, ...

EMC Corp. was known for sandwiching technologies into converged infrastructure before merging with Dell to form Dell Technologies Inc. Will it go on creating those systems independently or bring in new ingredients and influences through the merger? The company’s VxRack System with FLEX, a converged infrastructure product, provides a hint. “It’s leveraging, really, the best of our software-defined, ...

After starting six companies with fellow tech veteran Jeff Flowers since 1980, Wasabi Technologies Inc. co-founder David Friend (@Wasabi_Dave) (pictured, left) has clearly learned to name names when it comes to competition. “If you know what Amazon S3 cloud storage is, you pretty much know what Wasabi is — except we’re one fifth the price and ...

DataOps — or the mashing of data, analytics and operations — is tricky business doable with (but not without) cloud software as a service, according to Ashish Thusoo (pictured, left), co-founder and chief executive officer of Qubole Inc. “The systems that do real-time are different from the systems that do analytics are different from the systems that ...

To get their real-time data acts together, companies might take a tip from a guy who helped build Twitter, a site synonymous with always-on streams. First off, Apache Hadoop’s big data framework doesn’t have the brains for real-time, according to Karthik Ramaswamy (pictured), formerly engineering manager at Twitter and now co-founder of Streamlio, an enterprise real-time data ...

Can computing bottlenecks and storage costs be slashed in one throw with data operations using read/write capable virtual data? The database — and physical data in general — often chokes infrastructure agility with its manual procedures and costly space requirements, according to Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman (pictured), technical intelligence manager for the office of the chief technology officer at ...

It’s tough for businesses to choose analytics tools to last when the only constant in big data technology is change. Finally installing it and getting back to work often presents the opposite problem. “One thing that seems to be constant is resistance to change in a lot of places,” said Colin Riddell (pictured), big data platform architect ...