NetApp Insight: Extending the Data Fabric to the Cloud and Beyond

The consistent seamless data management between on premise environments and hybrid multi-cloud resources, while still maintaining control over your organization’s data, was the theme of the NetApp Insight 2016 conference held at the Mandalay Bay Conference center in Las Vegas. The conference welcomed over 5,000 NetApp customers, partners and employees from various countries, and I […]

Learn How to Mine Gold from Machine Data at Denver Big Data Analytics Day

When companies think of Big Data, they often think of mining customer databases for tidbits of information that will help them personalize and improve the customer experience. While this is one area where data mining has shown value, there are other less “glamorous” datasets that can also benefit the organization. Machine data is one such […]

NetApp Insight 2015: Data Fabric and Cloud Storage

NetApp’s annual conference was held last week at the Mandalay Bay Conference Center in Las Vegas.  Over 5,000 NetApp customers, partners and employees gathered to listen to NetApp’s impression of the rapidly changing storage industry. This was the fifth NetApp Insight conference I’ve attended since first being introduced to “Network Appliance” many years ago. While […]