Sramana Mitra: In this general universe that you’re operating in, where do you see open problems? If you were starting a company today, where would you look into? Peter Nichol: That’s a great question. I would say there’re probably two areas that are big trends emerging in the future that haven’t been addressed in a
Sramana Mitra: At the same time, these open source technologies are fairly complex and require external expertise for them to be able to manage them. You are one of the specialized vendors whom they’re reaching out to to get that expertise in? Peter Nichol: I think that’s right. The companies that base their business on
Peter provides some excellent insights into open problems around which new entrepreneurs can build companies. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as Instaclustr to our audience. Peter Nichol: I’m the CEO of Instaclustr. I’ve been CEO and various other positions in the technology industry for nearly 30 years. I’m based
Sramana Mitra: Let’s do a couple more use cases and then I’ll ask you other questions. Chris Astle: Other use cases would be from an academic perspective. Our software is used extensively by individuals in terms of their own research and development work. We’re looking at areas of pulling information together from multiple sources whether
A point of view on Big Data from Australia. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as QSR. Please set some context for us. Chris Astle: Thank you for inviting me to participate. I’m the CEO of QSR International. QSR International is a software publisher of a product called NVivo.
Paul Nelson: GDPR is a privacy and data protection regulation by the European Union. Companies are really scrambling to pull this off. If I were going to start a new company, that’s exactly where I would start. Search Technologies has a bunch of components that help. You have to actually run your fingers through the
Paul Nelson: Right now, we’re seeing an explosion of chatbots. We’re getting a lot of customers who are coming to us asking for semantic search. They want to do semantic search so that I can type in something like “red shirts” and I will find actual shirts in the color red or in colors similar
This discussion highlights a set of open problems in Big Data. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Search Technologies. Paul Nelson: I’m the Chief Architect for Search Technologies. Search Technologies is a global search engine and Big Data firm. We specialize in search engines, search engine installation,