Thought Leaders in Big Data: Don DeLoach, CEO of Infobright (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit about your company. Is it a bootstrapped company or venture-funded? Very quickly, what is the history of the company? Don DeLoach: We are privately-held and are venture-funded. As you would expect with venture-funded companies, there are limitations to what we will disclose but I can give you rough numbers.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Don DeLoach, CEO of Infobright (Part 4)

Don DeLoach: I’ll just give you a quick example. One of our really good customers is JDS Uniphase. They had an application that did network troubleshooting but it was based on a traditional database. What they found was that the increase on the load of the network required their customers to continually index the database,

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Don DeLoach, CEO of Infobright (Part 3)

Don DeLoach: The way the metadata layer is established is tantamount to indexing everything. So the maneuverability over the data especially for things like ad hoc queries and investigative analytics is very strong. That’s all done without the benefit or requirement of a database administrator. This typically is a low hardware requirement, a very low

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Don DeLoach, CEO of Infobright (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You’re telling me that your go-to-market strategy is OEM? Don DeLoach: I would say it’s more and more OEM for sure. It had been a combination of direct sales mostly into the ad tech space and OEM sales into the people servicing mobile network operators. Without doubt, that’s over half of our business

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Don DeLoach, CEO of Infobright (Part 1)

Everyone in Big Data is anticipating the Internet of Things trend. Don discusses it as well, along with other issues. Sramana Mitra: Don, let’s start with introducing our audience to you as well as Infobright. Don DeLoach: I’m the President and CEO of Infobright. Infobright is a company that offers a purpose-built platform for storing

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: A Discussion with Rahul Patel, VP Product Marketing for Wireless Connectivity Combos, Broadcom (Part 7)

Rahul Patel: I can give you a life-changing application that is very useful, and I think people will appreciate it. It is in the medical space. Say there is somebody who is not doing well whose health needs to be constantly monitored. One way of solving this is having the person constantly close to a

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: A Discussion with Rahul Patel, VP Product Marketing for Wireless Connectivity Combos, Broadcom (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: So you need somebody like Google between you and a developer ecosystem? Rahul Patel: Yes. Google is a customer of Broadcom. That is how I would look at it.

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: A Discussion with Rahul Patel, VP Product Marketing for Wireless Connectivity Combos, Broadcom (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: It is part of your chips, but it has to be controlled somehow. What is the control point? Rahul Patel: We bring all those control points to the APIs, and then the application developer decides how they want to control it. Setting up the turning on and off time for radios, for example,

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