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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: A Second Conversation with Mark Settle, CIO of BMC (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: My understanding of the large-enterprise cloud adoption dynamics would probably synthesize with what I have seen. Is that also what you see? Mark Settle: Yes. You have part of the big hardware vendors – the BCE consortium, VMware, Cisco, or EMC – in order to engineer and sell a pre-integrated stack of server
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: What kind of competition are you seeing on the market? I know there is a lot of activity in the data space right now, and everybody wants to be categorized on their big data these days. It sounds as though you have relatively mature capabilities since you have been in business for seven
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: The clustering itself is dynamic? Are you coming up with algorithmic clusters? Omer Artun: That is right. The platform we use runs on a Hadoop-based framework, and it is cascading frameworking. It also has algebraic contruction tecniques (ART) integrated. This way, we can run these algorithms in a scalable, multi-tenant way. Basically, each
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What kind of customers were you working with before you raised the money? You mentioned that you built your business in a bootstrap mode, and then demand for your company or products went up. That is when you decided to move to Silicon Valley. Tell me a bit about what happened in the
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 1)
Omer Artun is the founder of AgilOne, a company which provides cloud-based predictive customer analytics. He studied at Brown University and holds a PhD in computational neuroscience/machine learning and physics. He previously worked for McKinsey & Company and for the marketing division of Best Buy. Seven years ago he decided to found his own company
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: How did you convince your first couple of customers to go with you? Omer Artun: They were people whom I helped as a consultant. Once I built up trust with them, I told them I could do what this other vendor was doing for them much cheaper and better. That is how I
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What e-commerce systems do they work with? Omer Artun: This doesn’t matter to us. It is a rest API. Any e-commerce system can pull the data out of it. If you think about the day in a life of a marketer, we are trying to do other things than just starting up recommendations
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Joseph Beal, Chief Information Security Officer of CCSi (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What open problems or gaps do you see that are not addressed today? Joseph Beal: One of the major issues we’re having, if you go back to BYOD [bring your own device], and the influx of mobile applications that people want, you’ll see. Look at the smartphone. It’s basically got applications you can
