We’ve all heard the term tree huggers. If you were around during the early days of server virtualization, you may remember the phenomenon of server huggers. These were the people who were adamant that their systems and applications were too important to move to virtual servers, clinging to their physical servers for dear life. The latest “hugger” variant is the data hugger—those folks that don’t want to share their data with other departments or data science groups to fill the so-called data lake to support data science and analytics.
In this episode of Pivotal Insights, host Jeff Kelly talks with Dormain Drewitz, head of product marketing for Pivotal’s data business, contemplating the data hugger mindset and propose some strategies for changing hearts and minds when it comes to sharing data. The two also chat about Dreamforce—the massive Salesforce customer conference that descended on San Francisco last week—and Salesforce’s move to embed artificial intelligence into its eponymous SaaS CRM application and the wider implications for the blending of insights with applications.
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Show Notes
- Lights, Cameras, Dreamforce: Dreamforce ‘16 descends on San Francisco
- At Dreamforce, Marc Benioff touts Salesforce’s AI chops with Einstein
- Salesforce Agrees to Buy Marketing-Data Startup Krux
- Salesforce Acquires Artificial Intelligence Startup MetaMind
- 10 Signs You Might Be a Server Hugger
- Upcoming webinar: Molina Healthcare Drives Operational IT Efficiency with Hadoop Native SQL Analytics
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