The Dawn of Data Orchestration: #eWEEKchat Recap

On February 12th, technology professionals joined forces for eWEEK’s 83rd monthly #eWEEKchat. The discussion focused on the topic of data orchestration and was moderated by eWEEK’s, Editor in Chief, Chris Preimesberger.

Guest hosts included: Chris Oshiro, Field CTO of AtScale; Eric Kavanaugh, CEO of The Bloor Group; Wally MacDermid, VP of Cloud for Scality; Dipti Borkar, VP of Products at Alluxio; Christopher Merz, Principal Technologist at NetApp; Alex Ma, Director of Solutions Engineering for Alluxio; and Sam Lakkundi, BMC VP of Product Management.

Below are a few highlights from the event: 

Q1: How is your company using data orchestration? What business values are you delivering? 

*With AtScale, you can orchestrate your data autonomously to optimize query response in terms of performance and compute.

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Q2: We have here today several reps from companies that offer data orchestration in a platform or application. Can each of you tell us what sets your edition apart from others in the market? 

*Our Universal Semantic Layer governs complex business analytics and self-optimizes to better respond to the ask. Optimizing analytics only goes as far as the business use of the data. You must make hard analytics easy, fast and compute friendly.

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Q4: Data orchestration of the sophisticated kind we have now is still relatively new. In your estimation, what should data orchestration be doing, or doing better, than it is now? 

*Making data easy to use for the business analyst is a critical component to autonomous orchestration. AtScale learns and anticipates by data use. To get data use, you have to make it easy to use.

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Q5: How about if you all offer a takeaway or two from this discussion that’s relevant to enterprise IT buyers, the type of audience that loves to read eWEEK.com and Silicon Angle! 

*Lower the barriers for the business to use your data service, and AtScale learns how to best serve it.

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Chris Oshiro: @coshiro 

Eric Kavanaugh:  @eric_kavanaugh

Wally MacDermid:  @scality 

Dipti Borkar:  @dborkar 

Alex Ma:  @AlexMa99002176

Sam Lakkundi:  @samlakkundi