Dan Baskette

Dan is Director of Technical Marketing at Pivotal with over 20 years of experience in various pre-sales and engineering roles with Sun Microsystems, EMC Corporation, and Pivotal Software. In addition to his technical marketing duties, Dan is frequently called upon to roll-up his sleeves for various "Will this work?" type projects. Dan is an avid collector of Marvel Comics gear and you can usually find him wearing a Marvel shirt. In his spare time, Dan enjoys playing tennis and hiking in the Smoky Mountains.

  • What’s in a Name? How Pivotal’s Products Are Being Renamed as Part of VMware Tanzu

    What’s in a Name? How Pivotal’s Products Are Being Renamed as Part of VMware Tanzu

    The new VMware Tanzu portfolio includes products from Pivotal Software, which will be reflected in their new names.

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  • When Building Containers from Source Code, Repeatability is Key. Pivotal Build Service is Here to Help.

    When Building Containers from Source Code, Repeatability is Key. Pivotal Build Service is Here to Help.

    We recently announced Pivotal Build Service, an automated way to build containers from source code. This post details several new capabilities of the latest alpha release.

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  • Spring Data and YugaByte DB: A Developers Dream

    Spring Data and YugaByte DB: A Developers Dream

    When a developer uses Spring Data along with Spring Boot, the complexity of a typical application melts away. Here's what that looks like.

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  • Check out the Power of CI and Pipelines

    Check out the Power of CI and Pipelines

    Continuous Integration and pipelines increase help increase the velocity of software development and reduce reaction times in the development of Cloud Foundry.

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  • The runC Vulnerability Shows Why You Need a Secure by Default Platform

    The runC Vulnerability Shows Why You Need a Secure by Default Platform

    Why PAS customers weren’t affected by the recent runC vulnerability.

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  • FaaS.local - The Benefits of On-Premises FaaS

    FaaS.local - The Benefits of On-Premises FaaS

    Dan Baskette debunks the myth that functions are only valuable running in the public cloud. FaaS within enterprise data centers offers a number of benefits you might not realize.

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  • Performance Benchmark: Pivotal HAWQ Beats Impala & Apache Hive—Part 1

    Performance Benchmark: Pivotal HAWQ Beats Impala & Apache Hive—Part 1

    In part one of this five blog series, Dan Baskette, Pivotal Director of Marketing for Data and Analytics, quickly explains the impact of SQL performance on Hadoop and tees up the overall findings...

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  • Pivotal HAWQ Lands In The Hortonworks Sandbox

    Pivotal HAWQ Lands In The Hortonworks Sandbox

    When Pivotal first announced HAWQ would be available on HDP, some of my first thoughts were about how nice it would be to provide customers the ability to install HAWQ directly onto the...

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