It's been a very big year for big data, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is helping enterprises get a handle on organizing and analyzing their data with tools that analyze in place and offer machine learning and cognitive capabilities, according to Jeff Veis, VP of marketing, big data platform, at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. Veis spoke to Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Paul Gillin (@pgillin), co-hosts of theCUBE*, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during HPE Discover EU, held in London. Veis also discussed HPE big data solutions, including Vertica, which enables users to conduct data analysis, regardless of where the data resides; IDOL, a software solution that provides a single environment for structured, semi-structured and unstructured data; and Haven, an on-demand platform of more than 60 advanced machine-learning APIs and services. One of the concepts Veis talked about was "analyze in place," or ways customers can get the value out of their datalake. With Vertica, they get the performance of a Vertica front end with the economy of Hadoop. Vertica's new Frontloader was released in September; it added MS Azure support, in addition to AWS.

In the move toward automation, machine-learning and predictive analytics, many are seeing dark times ahead for the human component of the IT workforce. Others, however, are seeing it as a time for the IT workers to become more powerful than ever before. At the HPE Discover EU event in London, Dana Gardner, president and principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions LLC, and Paul Teich, principal analyst at TIRIAS Research, sat down with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Paul Gillin (@pgillin), co-hosts of theCUBE*, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to talk about the changing state of tech in a variety of areas. In the initial consideration, Teich felt that HPE had been doing "a credible job at trying to simplify their message" and "creating a set of overarching themes for … a bag of parts. They're a huge company; they have a very extensive portfolio. What we haven't seen in previous years is what ties that all together. Trying to be everything to everyone has its limits," he noted.

There has been much talk about AI, also known as "artificial intelligence" or "augmented intelligence" in the industry recently. Where does it stand, who is using it and how will it be implemented in the marketplace in the future? Robert Youngjohns, EVP and GM of HP Software at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE), sat down with Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and John Furrier (@furrier), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during HPE Discover 2016 in Las Vegas to discuss the future of AI. AI is traditionally a futuristic concept, but not so futuristic that it is not already being implemented by developers on a wide scale. HPE is driving and encouraging that implementation within its own Enterprise platform.

You can almost hear the whooshing sound as the technology industry is sprinting to the marketplace with new solutions to help the enterprise garner useful and intelligent insights from their data. Analytics, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) delivered in a simplistic form is what companies are demanding. To meet this mandate, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) has developed Haven OnDemand, which offers the latest technology in a simplified platform for developers. Jeff Veis, VP of Big Data Platform Solutions, HP Software, at HPE, spoke to John Furrier (@furrier) and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during HPE Discover 2016 Las Vegas to discuss Big Data and the needs of the enterprise. Furrier began the interview by asking Veis about the driving force behind the need for machine learning.

You can almost hear the whooshing sound as the technology industry is sprinting to the marketplace with new solutions to help the enterprise garner useful and intelligent insights from their data. Analytics, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) delivered in a simplistic form is what companies are demanding. To meet this mandate, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) has developed Haven OnDemand, which offers the latest technology in a simplified platform for developers. Jeff Veis, VP of Big Data Platform Solutions, HP Software, at HPE, spoke to John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during HPE Discover 2016 Las Vegas to discuss Big Data and the needs of the enterprise. Furrier began the interview by asking Veis about the driving force behind the need for machine learning.