Building big data platforms on-premises looks like a fool’s errand as expanding data spills out the windows and customers opt for knob-less service models. This became clear one year ago at HortonWorks’ DataWorks Summit in San Jose, California, for George Gilbert (@ggilbert41) (pictured, right), co-host of of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio. “That was ...

Could inroads to outside data and machine learning computing capabilities let modest-sized companies market to customers like an eBay Inc. or Amazon.com? They can, according to Alex Sadovsky (pictured), director of data science at Oracle Data Cloud. ODC is combining data from Oracle Corp. and other sources with Apache Spark’s machine learning data analytics engine to ...

On-premise infrastructure proponents are quick to point out the cost-wall enterprises hit in cloud storage, but their arguments don’t fairly weigh the pros and cons, according to Mick Bass (pictured), chief executive officer of 47Lining LLC. “Your data lake has a profit and loss statement,” Bass told George Gilbert (@ggilbert41) and Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s ...

Many are realizing there is little to fear and much to gain from outsourcing data to cloud service providers, according to Tripp Smith (pictured), chief technical officer at Clarity Solution Group LLC (Clarity Insights). “If you had money, you wouldn’t put it in your safe at home; you would put it in a bank,” Smith said, ...

Software vendors moving to the subscription model are feeling customers’ breath on their necks as contracts are easy to slip out of and competitors stand by. To cut losses, they ought to pump up customer support and bundle it with products, according to Ansa Sekharan, executive vice president of global customer support and Informatica University at Informatica LLC. ...

Rather than read the same sales script to each prospect, channel partners can show customers how a new product, combined with the ones they have, can sing a unique tune, according to Rodney Foreman (pictured), senior vice president of partner ecosystem at Informatica LLC. “We’re seeing a lot of new opportunity and a lot of new customers ...

As developers reach down the stack and network engineers stretch upward, they must meet in the middle with visible, integrated data from both ends, according to Wissam Ali-Ahmad(pictured), lead solutions architect at Splunk Inc. “You need visibility to everything, and Splunk is that platform where you have access to all that data throughout all,” Ali-Ahmad said ...

Software is eating the world — and it was eating Costa Rica-based Altus Consulting LLC’s customers, according to Chief Innovation Officer Jose Bogarin Solano (pictured). “People from Cisco call it a racks to riches story,” Solano said of his company’s hybridizing its Cisco Systems Inc. hardware reselling business with software development. Competing Cisco partners in Altus’ ...

Software developers are now plying their trade deep down the stack with programmable networks, so why not give network engineers some Representational State Transfer (known as REST) application program interfaces (and perhaps hoodies) and make them developers? “One of the things in DevNet we’re working on is what we call the evolution of a network engineer,” said Amanda ...

How does the “software supply chain” — AKA the transiting code inside of containers — link the skills and knowledge gaps between developers and operations people? “We really want to sort of start with the developer,” said Bradley Wong (pictured), director of product management at Docker Inc. The logic is that developers have the most arcane skills ...