There are two race tracks in big data — one for data and another for its analytic models’ iterative cycles. Speed is synonymous with cloud-native, but legacy companies with database business like Oracle Corp. might finish first, analysts say. Both breeds of cloud provider have strengths, which John Furrier (@furrier) (pictured, right) and Peter Burris (@plburris) (pictured, ...

Think animated shows are one form of entertainment that can never be created and viewed simultaneously? Think again, said Victoria Nece (@FakeGreenDress), product manager of motion graphics and visual effects at Adobe Systems Inc. Character Animator is an Adobe application that “allows you to do real-time live animation using your webcam and your microphone and also ...

The old adage “there’s no back-end in Hollywood” often is borne out in disputes between film professionals over monies owed. Could blockchain’s digital asset ledger bring trust and transparency to these risky transactions? “When you look at making a movie or a television program, it’s just a lot of transactions, and that’s where blockchain is ...

Lennon and McCartney; Warhol and Basquiat; F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald — history’s filled with famous creative duos, and new technology could create more by knocking down collaborative barriers of time and locality. “You don’t want to be restricted by geography in finding the person you want to collaborate with,” said Shailendra Mathur (pictured), vice president/chief architect at Avid Technology Inc. Artists ...

Real-world progress in digital marketing lags behind MarTech, the blending of marketing and technology. Why? Because marketers lack agility, a crucial piece to the puzzle, according to Roland Smart (pictured), vice president of social and community marketing at Oracle Corp. “Digital transformation is … dominating the marketer’s consciousness at the moment,” Smart said, adding that there is a ...

The M.E.T. Effect (the convergence of media, entertainment and tech) was on full display at the 2017 NAB Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, this week — from tech for amateur YouTubers to today’s livestream from the NASA International Space Station. One standout example of big data’s success is the story around Netflix. “We see more data-based ...

Consumers are demanding a digital experience that seeps in marketing rather than splashes them in the face with it. The question is, how will companies orchestrate this and who will be at the helm? “Marketing was always a silo,” John Furrier (@furrier) (pictured, right) told Peter Burris (@plburris) (pictured, left), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming ...

Businesses need customer data to differentiate products, pricing and scale. But how much does freely available data from entities like Google Inc. and Facebook Inc. help them? To stand out, they will have to own and fully exploit their own data, said Marta Federici (pictured), global head of Customer Relationship Management B2C and B2B at Royal Philips of the Netherlands. “Customer ...

Film studios are being disrupted, but smart producers see this as an opportunity to grow rather than mope, according to Wendy Aylsworth (pictured), chief executive officer of Walden Pond Consulting and long-time Warner Bros. staffer. “I haven’t heard anybody be disappointed or pessimistic about it. I think they recognize that throughout history things change and you must ...

Audiences might soon watch movies via virtual reality headsets, or some as yet unimagined gadget. But just because mediums perish doesn’t mean messages have to, according to Linda Tadic (pictured), founder and chief executive officer of Digital Bedrock, a managed digital preservation service. Storing digital content is actually the easy part, she said. “The hard part is ...