Despite dampened hopes for data lakes, AKA “data swamps,” businesses — especially in healthcare — can’t return to locking carefully curated data under governance by a select few, according to Richard Cramer (pictured), chief healthcare strategist at Informatica LLC. “Little secret is that it takes too long, costs too much and it’s not agile,” Cramer said of that ...

The Chicago Cubs franchise broke the Curse of the Billy Goat at the 2016 World Series, winning for the first time in 108 years. Now can it bring century-old Wrigley Field into the Digital Age with Informatica Corp.’s big data management? “When I joined back in June of 2012, we recognized that there was really ...

Sixty percent of data that exists are actually copies, which explains why copy sprawl management is now a $40-billion business, according to research from International Data Corp.. Flash storage that allows multiple users to work on a single copy might reduce the glut, but by itself is not a perfect solution, according to Chhandomay Mandal (pictured), director ...

In addition to brand-refresh hurrah, Informatica LLC popped the cork on Informatica World 2017 in San Francisco, California, with the announcement of CLAIRE, its new data management tool. This marks Informatica’s entrance into what Kim Salem-Jackson (pictured), senior vice president of global marketing and business development at Informatica, calls “data 3.0.” “It’s all about using intelligence of the data to innovate ...

Pat Harkins (pictured, right), chief technical officer of informatics and technology services at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre, believes he’s found a handy way to stretch his organization’s funding dollars and those of its partners. Harkins was joined by Chhandomay Mandal, director of product marketing at Dell EMC, in an interview with Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) and John ...

Buyer beware: Storage arrays are not created equal, and even the all-flash systems have marked differences in performance, according to Caitlin Gordon (pictured), director of product marketing at Dell EMC. “Already over 80 percent of net new [Dell EMC VMAX] sales are all-flash,” Gordon told John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, and ...

Cloud providers can assure customers their data is theirs alone, but if they bake it into a machine learning model they then serve to their competitors, aren’t they giving away their intellectual property by proxy? “Trying to disseminate that information when you aggregate that and you commingle that data — it has IP implications; it ...

Seventy percent of chief information officers have a cloud-first strategy, according to the International Data Corp., but if they think the cloud is a silo-free Shangri-La, they are wrong, according to Peter Smails, vice president of marketing and business development at Datos IO Inc. “We’ve pushed the silo problem from on-prem to the cloud. Clouds don’t talk ...

Though the graphics processing unit is suddenly a buzzword in the world of artificial intelligence, this comes only after years of experimentation by graphics processing unit originators’ Nvidia Corp., according to Colette Kress, executive vice president and chief financial officer at Nvidia (pictured). The ACG 2017 Outstanding Growth Award winner grossed $6.9 billion in revenue last ...

Maybe it’s the pace at which technologies are scraped and replaced, but companies are finding that pooling insights from all staffers is necessary to stay ahead of the curve, according to Hayley Tabor (pictured), vice president of global industries at Dell EMC. “I think it has a lot to do with the people and the ...