Among IBM Corp.’s new partnership ventures is a $10 million investment in tech skills education community Galvanize. Willie Tejada (pictured), chief developer advocate at IBM, said the partnership addresses a shortage of cognitive developers that mirrors the dearth of data scientists. “There’s a new set of skillsets that are probably moving faster than we’ve ever seen before,” ...

On the shelf between the geeky Google Cloud and blockbuster Amazon Web Services is IBM, with a service integration offering that may look comparatively lackluster to businesses shopping for a cloud provider. But Mohammad Farooq (pictured), general manager of brokerage services at IBM Corp., said that in this hyper-fragmented information technology world, enterprises need nothing so much as a single point of contact. ...

At this week’s IBM InterConnect 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada, attendees are taking a hard look at how the cloud players rank in enterprise readiness. “This is the number one conversation in the hallways here in Las Vegas and every single cloud show in the enterprise,” said John Furrier (@furrier — pictured, left), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile ...

Too much data to crunch? The solution may be yet more data — cataloged with machine learning to make recommendations for use cases, says Adam Wilson, chief executive officer of Trifacta Inc. “The data lake itself is not a use case,” he said at BigData SV 2017 in San Jose, CA. He said that while many companies jumped on ...

Metadata is earning shout-outs at BigData SV 2017 in San Jose, CA, as a practical first step to monetizing massive, murky data lakes. “This old world where IT would prepare the data and then I got a single metric or I got a couple metrics to choose from is now turned on its head,” said Stephanie McReynolds (pictured, ...

Anyone working on a software (or hardware) solution to help data trek to the edge and back in Internet of Things applications may be wasting their effort, said Scott Gnau (pictured), chief technical officer of Hortonworks Inc., during BigData SV 2017 in San Jose, CA. “That is impossible in this new world order,” Gnau told John Furrier ...

Once touted data lakes have deteriorated into data swamps, but a slew of new technologies could salvage the data inside with help from machine learning. “You’re starting to see solutions taking advantage of that data lake,” said John Furrier (@furrier), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, during BigData SV 2017 in San Jose, ...

As much as companies would like silver bullet analytics to manifest insight from data, the only way out of the data jungle is through it, according to Arik Pelkey, senior director of product marketing at Pentaho Corp. “It’s about solving the data problem before you solve the analytics problem,” he said. Pelkey spoke to John Furrier ...

Despite uncertainty about its usefulness, companies continue hoarding masses of data. Does this mean data scientists are doomed to shovel through dreck looking for rare nuggets, or is there any easier way? Artificial intelligence and machine learning for cataloging data may be the answer, according to Amit Walia, executive vice president and chief product officer of Informatica Corp. ...

Getting out of the IT weeds and into profitable up-the stack use-cases is a goal at many enterprises. This trend seems to be extending all the way to Application Program Interfaces where the old method of design is being up-ended, according to Vikas Anand (pictured), vice president of product management at Oracle Corp. “A lot of times ...