Sramana Mitra: You said you started your company in 2007. Given that we are in 2013, obviously this big data trend that we are in the midst of. The IT industry operates in buzzwords, and for whatever reason right now big data is a buzzword. In 2007 that was not the case at all. I
Seth Redmore is the vice president of product management at Lexalytics, a company that provides an engine to convert unstructured text into structured data. In this interview Seth talks about how Lexalytics provides big data solutions for its customers, the direction of development Lexalytics is taking, and how the company is willing to work with
Sramana Mitra: Let’s do another couple of use cases of your technology. Sasha Gilenson: Another use case we have is about proactive prevention of problems. One of the frequent activities in IT and the development of agile methods is change transition – the release of a change into a productive environment. When you have a
Sramana Mitra: Why is this a big data issue? Sasha Gilenson: Because when you look at the IT and the amounts of operational information that IT is creating, generic incubation is just one of the aspects that we started to cover because the space was not addressed by any other solution. If you look at
Sramana Mitra: How do you make money? What is Kaggle’s business model? Jeremy Howard: We get paid for running these competitions. Generally, we get paid by organizations that also access this amazing community of data scientists. A lot of people invested a lot of money in data collection and data management, and a lot of
Sramana Mitra: So you provide visibility and diagnostics on where the issue might be? Sasha Gilenson: Yes, and these are related to the changes that happen in the environment and its configuration content. There is a certain angle of diagnostic tools. We bring the angle of the environment, configuration, and changes that happened to the
Sasha Gilenson is the CEO and co-founder of Evolven, a leading company in IT Operations Analytics. Prior to Evolven, Sasha spent 13 years at Mercury Interactive, participating in the establishing of Mercury’s SaaS and BTO strategy. He studied at the London Business School and has more than 15 years of experience in IT operations. In
Sramana Mitra: Who are these people? What is their motivation to participate in this contest? Of course, this is all very time consuming. Thousands of people can be doing this on their own time. There must be something going on in the psychology that you have studied and understood. What is that?