Big Data Beard

Join us in Dallas, Texas when we catch up with Gregg Woodcock & Noah Woodcock to learn why and how they built Splunxter, their Splunk consulting practice during The Big Data Beard Road Trip to Splunk's .conf 2019! We also chat about Gregg's activity on Splunk Answers as well as the Dallas Splunk User Group he started. We also get a preview of Gregg's new venture, Siemplicity, and how it will utilize Splunk to simplify for SIEM. Be sure to checkout their 2018 .conf talk here. Find out more here: http://bit.ly/RT2C-E8a Follow our entire adventure and all of our livestreams, podcasts, and live dashboards at https://bigdatabeard.com/road-trip-to-conf-2019/

Dell.com is one of the most frequently visited eCommerce sites and is a major contributor to Dell Technologies revenue. Where even minutes of downtime could cause millions in lost revenue, it's up to the Dell Technologies Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team to ensure continuous availability. On day 9 from our #RoadTrip2conf, Kyle and Brett sit down with the team charged with ensuring Dell.com is always up and running. Scott Mosqueda, Sr. Director for SRE and Tanuj Arcot, Lead SRE Engineer talk about their responsibility to keep Dell.com up and running and how they turned to Splunk to help. Scott and Tanuj go into how Splunk was introduced into the data center and the evolution of how it's been used.

On the 8th day of our Road Trip 2 .conf, we find ourselves at the Dell Technologies headquarters in Round Rock, TX. Cory and Brett sit down with Dell's new Chief Digital Officer, Jen Felch to hear about Dell's vision for digital transformation. In a organization where digital transformation is a never ending journey, Jen talks about the role that people, process technology and culture play in driving Dell's strategy and next phases of digital transformation.

Join Cory and Kyle in Nashville, TN as we go under the Fez, into the mind of the Splunk Trust. We chat with Splunk Trust members Duane "DuckFez" Waddle and George Starcher, discussing the history of Splunk Trust, how Duane became "DuckFez", and what really goes into being able to wear the black fez. We also chat about the community surrounding Splunk Answers, icq, and the slack channel.

It's Day 4 of our #RoadTrip2conf! In our journey so far, we have traveled across 9 states and have had some excellent conversations. For the podcast today, Kevin Steeprow and Ramon Taylor join Cory and Kyle for round 2. Kevin and Ramon provide a deeper look into the tools and technologies that customers are using to solve their analytics challenges and further their AI capabilities.

We are just outside Washington DC on day 2 of the #RoadTrip2Conf. Join us as Brett and Cory sit down with Navy veteran and Splunk's Public Sector Chief Technical Advisor, Juliana Vida. Juliana shares insights from her career as a naval officer turned technologist. She also provides advice for military personnel wanting to broaden their career in IT. Then we dive in on the power of data and how its helping transform experiences from higher education to military intelligence.

It's day 2 of our #RoadTrip2conf and today we are in Washington D.C meeting with Red River Technology. In today's podcast Cory and Kyle sit down with Kevin Steeprow, VP of Design Engineering and Ramon Thomas, Design Engineering Manager. Kevin and Ramon provide a glimpse into how Red River is helping customers make sense of their data and turn insights in actionable intelligence.

Its finally here! The Big Data Beard team has started its epic Road Trip 2 .conf today. I can think of no better way to kick off our Road Trip series of podcasts than with Splunk's very own Jeff Champagne. In the first episode of season 5, Brett and Kyle sit down with Jeff and get his thoughts on how customers are deploying Splunk at scale, deployment trends and the evolution of SplunkNext.

Season four of the Big Data Beard podcast was 36 weeks of episodes following the trends, technology, and talented people making AI, IoT, and Big Data a big deal. In season five, you're in for something different. This is going to be a very short, but crazy busy season of podcasts from the Big Data Beard. Starting October 7th, you'll see a new podcast post every day, Monday to Friday until October 18th. Then you'll see the podcasts we record during Splunk's .conf19 publish each Tuesday following the conference. And don't forget to check out our YouTube channel for our daily "Breakfast With The Beards" during the Road Trip 2 .conf! You can follow along with all our progress on the Road Trip simply by going to www.BigDataBeard.com and click on Road Trip 2 .conf. Join us on this wild adventure as we uncover the incredible stories of Digital Transformation with Splunk and our sponsors, Dell Technologies, VMware, Red River Technologies, Arrow Electronics, and Converging Data!

Data processing today is based on a “Store then Analyze” architecture born in the big-data era. Cory and Brett sit down with SWIM.AI CTO Simon Crosby to hear about their recently launched DataFabric software is changing how organizations can stream, analyze and store data. Announced on September 18th, DataFabric software lets businesses interconnect all data-generating assets and provides real-time data classification, reduction, analysis and prediction. Simon talks about how this technology allows for an Analyze, Act and then Store architecture rather than the traditional Store then Analyze architectures that are most common. Simon also talks about SWIM.AI's partnership with Microsoft Azure and its integration into the Azure suite of Data Analytics and AI tools.

Decoupling compute from storage has been a growing trend in the enterprise as organizations turn towards a data driven business. Cory and Erin sit down with Haoyuan (HY), Founder and CTO of Alluxio to talk about the importance in data orchestration and how Alluxio provides customers with the ability to bring data closer to the compute across clusters, regions, clouds and countries. Created in the same lab as Spark and other widely known open-source technologies, HY talks about the inception of Alluxio and the challenges this data orchestration platform solves. HY also gives his vision for the future of innovations and how Alluxio enables them most effectively. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Decoupling compute from storage has been a growing trend in the enterprise as organizations turn towards a data driven business. Cory and Erin sit down with Haoyuan (HY), Founder and CTO of Alluxio to talk about the importance in data orchestration and how Alluxio provides customers with the ability to bring data closer to the compute across clusters, regions, clouds and countries. Created in the same lab as Spark and other widely known open-source technologies, HY talks about the inception of Alluxio and the challenges this data orchestration platform solves. HY also gives his vision for the future of innovations and how Alluxio enables them most effectively. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

There may be an art to business, but there is science in data science. In this episode of the Big Data Beard podcast we talk with McKay Curtis, Senior Principal, Decision Science at The Walt Disney Company, about tackling the challenges of real world business with scientific experimentation. Hear best practices on how his team works across this giant enterprise to power incredible experiences with data driven insights. This podcast was recorded at the Disney Data and Analytics Conference in Orlando, Florida. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us! Links: Changing Science of Machine Learning Uncontrolled by Jim Manzi Stone Roses - Breaking into Heaven I Love You, Now Die

Disney is so much more than Mickey Mouse and the amount of data being created across this massive enterprise represents untold value. Tapping that value in dark data in consistent way is exactly what our guest, Ken Sterling, and his Management Science and Integration team are doing inside Disney. Learn how they've created a consulting practice inside the company and the lessons learned along the way. This podcast was recorded at the Disney Data and Analytics Conference in Orlando, Florida. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Move over Justin Bieber, National Geographic is coming through! Thats right, when it comes to Instagram, National Geographic is a pretty big deal. Their total followers exceed some notable celebrities such as Drake, Rihanna, Khloe Kardashian and that’s right, Justin Bieber. With over 118 Million followers, National Geographic is in fact the biggest brand on Instagram. Recorded at Disney’s Data and Analytics Conference, Cory and Brett sit down with National Geographic Partner's own Brad Dancer and Mia Vallo from the Insights, Analytics & Data Strategy team. This team is responsible for overseeing all insights, analytics and business intelligence across National Geographic including social media. Brad and Mia discuss the role that analytics played in becoming the biggest brand on Instagram and the journey that Nat Geo took to get to where they are today. The team talks about some of the challenges, key lessons and best practices to driving platform engagement to the next level. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

On this episode, we unveil the Big Data Beard Road Trip to Splunk .conf 2019, sponsored by Dell Technologies and Red River. Three beards, two weeks, seven thousand miles in an RV, what could possibly be wrong with that?!? Join the beards for a chat about the epic adventure that they have planned for October crossing the country in an RV outfitted with IoT tech from Dell and Splunking the whole trip. Learn how you can follow their adventures on a daily morning show, daily podcasts with some of the most interesting people in the world, and all the data from our IoT RV made real by our rolling Splunk data center! Follow our progress at: https://bit.ly/BDB_YTRTC2

Cory and Brett get to sit down with Mr. @BigData, Ben Lorica, Chief Data Scientist at O’Reilly Media to get a glimpse into the future of AI, ML and Data Science. Ben, who also happens to be the Program Chair for Strata Data, AI Conference and TensorFlowWorld talks about the common challenges he is seeing organizations have in starting and scaling machine learning projects and provides some best practices to take in order not to fall into the same traps as others. The team also gets to hear about some of the trends, tools and technologies on the bleeding edge that are driving huge advancements in machine and deep learning.

Recorded at Rev2, Brett and Cory get to sit down with Randi Ludwig, a Data Scientist at Dell Technologies to hear about how Dell is incorporating Data Science into its operations. Randi, who works within Dell’s Support and Deployment Services and leads their Data Science Council talks about some of the use cases that she has worked on to help provide technical support agents additional tools to help them predict and resolve customer issues more quickly and effectively. The team also explores some of the common data science challenges that most organizations are facing in the enterprise and hear about specific things Dell is doing to solve these challenges.

From a DVD company to a streaming company to a producer of some our favorite shows, Netflix has been at the forefront of media and entertainment innovation since the late 90’s. Today, Netflix touts over 148 million subscribers, accounts for nearly 15% of all global streaming traffic AND is the largest content producer with a $12 billion dollar content budget alone. Recorded at Rev2, Cory and Brett get to sit down with Michelle Ufford, former Head of Data Science Tools at Netflix to better understand how Netflix is using data and data science to create a unique and awesome experience for its subscribers. Michelle gives us insights into the open, collaborative and experimentation culture of Netflix that has been a major contributor to Netflix’s success. The team also dives into the different tools and technology that Netflix is using to drive the variety of data analytics use cases. So press pause on your episode of Stranger Things or Orange is the New Black and check out this exciting episode! Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

From a DVD company to a streaming company to a producer of some our favorite shows, Netflix has been at the forefront of media and entertainment innovation since the late 90’s. Today, Netflix touts over 148 million subscribers, accounts for nearly 15% of all global streaming traffic AND is the largest content producer with a $12 billion dollar content budget alone. Recorded at Rev2, Cory and Brett get to sit down with Michelle Ufford, former Head of Data Science Tools at Netflix to better understand how Netflix is using data and data science to create a unique and awesome experience for its subscribers. Michelle gives us insights into the open, collaborative and experimentation culture of Netflix that has been a major contributor to Netflix’s success. The team also dives into the different tools and technology that Netflix is using to drive the variety of data analytics use cases. So press pause on your episode of Stranger Things or Orange is the New Black and check out this exciting episode! Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Cory and Brett sit down Domino Data Lab's Co-Founder and CEO Nick Elprin to hear about how Domino Data Lab is helping customers move from the traditional data driven approach and become more model driven. Nick talks about the challenges in moving to a model driven approach and details the journey customers are taking to get there. Recorded from Domino Data Lab’s Rev2 Conference in New York City, Nick gives a brief history of Rev, Domino's yearly data science conference, and explains why this conference is different than the other AI and Data Analytics conferences out there. Lastly, Nick provides unique insights into some of the announcements that Domino Data Lab had at Rev2 and how the Domino Data Lab Platform is positioned to power model driven organizations. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

From the Google File System that paved the way to Hadoop, to Tensor Processing Units to Kubernetes, Google has been at the forefront of impactful technology innovation that has accelerated data analytics and AI. Recorded from Domino Data Lab’s Rev2 Conference in New York City, Cory and Brett sit down with Rod Bodkin to get his perspectives on the state of AI in the enterprise. Rod, who is a Technical Director in the CTO office for Google Cloud and is focused on Applied AI talks about some of the game changers that have led to the past evolutions in data science and what Google is doing to drive technologies to help further these evolutions in Cloud, AI and Data Science in the future. The team also dives into some recent examples of how Google is applying Deep Learning in areas like YouTube and Google IO. The 2019 Disney Data & Analytics Conference is taking place at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando Floria on August 20th and 21st. DDAC always has an all-star line up of speakers and this year Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, III the “Miracle on the Hudson” Hero Pilot & Shane Battier Vice President, Analytics and Basketball Development for the Miami Heat will be the keynote speakers. You can use promo code “BigDataBeard-2019” to receive 20% off your conference pass. Click here to register with the promo code.

Wrapping up our time at build 2019, Cory and Brett sit down with Mary Bellard, Senior Accessibility Architect for Microsoft. We hear how Mary and her team are using AI to help give people with disabilities equal access to data. Mary also shares a few of Microsoft's initiatives and products around accessibility; like the Seeing AI mobile app and the InnerVoice project as well. We also hear about the Microsoft AI for Accessibility grant, which helps ideas receive funding to become real products that can affect change with a global reach.

Join Brett and Cory at Microsoft Build 2019 as we sit down with David Carmona, GM of Microsoft AI, and Mark Hammond, GM of Business AI. We hear from the announcements on machine teaching, and how they are helping Microsoft’s vision of empowering every developer with AI at companies such as Schneider Electric. We also learn about the differences of machine teaching and supervised / unsupervised learning, and how anyone within the business can build systems with AI. Music from this episode is by Andrew Belle. Please go check him out...you'll thank us!

Join Brett and Cory as they are at Microsoft's Build 2019 with Azure AI CVP, Eric Boyd. Eric shares his thoughts and history of Microsoft's AI division, how AI is directly helping other Microsoft products, and where AI can help your business. We also discuss the challenges of AI and how to influence change in your business, and how change has helped influence customers like Kroger and Starbucks. Eric also shares some announcements around the Azure Data Factory and some of his favorite new features of the product, like drag and drop experiences for build machine learning models. We also learn a bit about Eric's 15 minutes of fame and his skill of counting cards.