Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Once the architecture of the world is much more mature, you are coming in at the heels of a platform as a service trend. So, you basically provide a platform as a service, provide the heuristic layer on top of that, etc. We were talking about business models earlier. You can charge a

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How are you going about trying to solve that problem? Are you going at it in a horizontal mode, or are you trying to create verticalized solutions? The interviews that we have been doing in our big data coverage have seen a ton of companies that are working on certain verticals.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I would like you to take off the HP hat and wear more of an industry thought leader hat. Give me some pointers to where you see open problems. Robert Youngjohns: I think the issue of unstructured data is one of the big problems facing the industry. It is really hard science to

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What is the state of the union on video analysis? Robert Youngjohns: It is developing very quickly, and we have very powerful tools. It started way back with something as simple as number plate recognition, which is now very established. We have a demo app where we show people where we are taking

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 1)

Robert Youngjohns is the senior vice president and general manager of HP Autonomy. Simply put, Autonomy helps organizations understand the meaning of information by applying big data technologies. Robert previously worked at Microsoft and has more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry. In this interview, Robert talks about Autonomy’s role within HP

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: In this picture that you have presented, where do you see gaps or problems? These could be smaller problems or niche problems. Where would you point entrepreneurs to look for opportunities to start companies? Where are the open spaces and blue-sky opportunities? Billy Bosworth: I am a little biased based on where I

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What does the competitive landscape look like? Of course there is a lot going on in big data. How do you view the map and the competitive landscape? How do you position yourself in that ecosystem with that competitive landscape? Billy Bosworth: I have been around databases for a long time. This is

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: So, that means a large number of your customers are basically Internet companies.  Companies that provide Internet services or Internet retail, e-commerce, and so on. Is that correct? Billy Bosworth: That is certainly not uncommon. Overall, I would not say Internet companies, but that their applications are Internet based. That is the better

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