Legislation like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation is introducing more pain points to big data practitioners. Increasingly, data analytics must meet standards not just for usefulness to the business, but also ethics, according to Bala Kumaresan (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of data security at Informatica LLC. This demands software capable of putting data and its ...

Self-service data analytics for tech laymen sounds fantastic, but what becomes of governance and security with the door to sensitive data left open? “As data gets democratized, the security issues become bigger and broader,” said Amit Walia (pictured), executive vice president and chief product officer at Informatica LLC. Nonetheless, his company stubbornly wants to stay friends with security ...

Tom Gottweis (pictured) had a CV of tech jobs as long as his arm when he became head of data strategy at Winsupply Inc., an industrial supply company, and found that technology is pretty much useless without a dovetailing culture. “You can create the best systems, the best tools in the world, and if your users are ...

The endlessly growing selection of Software as a Service business applications is great … until a company’s partner adopts one that doesn’t talk to its own SaaS app. Cloud backup and restore solutions company Carbonite Inc. is addressing this gap. Carbonite primarily uses cloud applications Marketo Inc., SalesForce.com, Zuora Inc. and NetSuite Inc., according to Justin Donlon (pictured), the ...

If the foundation of digital business is data, then to predict whether enterprises can go all-cloud, simply ask: Is all of their data going to the cloud? advises Jerry Held (pictured), board member of Informatica LLC and mentor at incubator Studio 9+. “Maybe if you’re a little company, you can run it all in the cloud. But ...

Many companies are clueless about where to begin monetizing data and digitally transforming their business models. And how do metadata and artificial intelligence technologies fit in? Deloitte Consulting LLP offers special education and coaching to help businesses suss these questions out, according to Tracy Ring (pictured), global alliance leader, analytics technologies, at Deloitte Consulting LLP. “There’s less ...

Marketing 101 for today’s tech company: Tell customers it’s number one for digital transformation without telling them what that transformation is or what’s on the other side of it, because, frankly, very few know. Tuning out the bluster, John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, asked Anil Chakravarthy (pictured), chief executive officer of ...

Once cyber attackers breach an enterprise, they will likely be able to compromise it in as little as 60 seconds, according the 2016 Verizon Data Breach Report. With a single minute to stop an attack, a string of point-solutions sluggishly pinging each other is not an ideal defense for businesses, according to John Maddison, senior vice ...

The trouble facing Informatica Corp. — the trouble with big data software generally — is that query tools and integration databases don’t come with manuals on how to live day-to-day as a data-driven enterprise. “It’s more than just a combination of tools; it’s more than just getting data out of applications and getting data out of ...

The story of data backup and recovery provider Veeam Software Inc. is about to get much more interesting thanks to two industry game-changers that took place in past months: Dell’s EMC acquisition that included VMware Inc. and VMware’s partnering with Amazon Web Services Inc. “The ascendancy of Veeam came about as a focus company on VMware ...