Stephen Brobst, CTO of Teradata Corp & Managing Partner at Sampo Technologies & Systems led an animated and informative discussion on the “Four Trends in Business Intelligence that Cannot be Ignored.” A recap of Stephen’s discussion and his bio are below.
We’re entered the Exabyte Era. Data is doubling roughly every two years. Humanity has generated more data in the last few years than in the entirety of recorded history. At this rate IT budgets cannot hope to keep pace with data growth. The solution to this remarkable growth is to utilize multiple tools and data formats, all working together, each optimized for a specific segment of the captured data rather than one or two less optimal tools and formats to manage all of the data sub optimally. This is called the Unified Data Architecture.- With Unified Data Architecture, data lakes are used for storage. Native Object Storage replaces Hadoop. Data warehouses use multiple technologies to handle relational, columnar, and unstructured data. Each technology components maximizes overall scalability by reducing the performance load on sub optimal technologies while working together via firm interfaces.
- Unified Data Architecture can include using multiple cloud providers, each used in a manner that maximizes its native strengths whilst simultaneously providing more negotiation leverage for the enterprise, and more reliability as it spreads components across more disparate infrastructure.
- The future of computing and storage is Cloud based, regardless of platform, as users gain in cost, security, performance, transparency, functionality and time to market.
Stephen Brobst’s Bio
Stephen Brobst is the Chief Technology Officer for Teradata Corporation. Stephen performed his graduate work in Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where his Masters and PhD research focused on high-performance parallel processing. He also completed an MBA with joint course and thesis work at the Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Stephen is a TDWI Fellow and has been on the faculty of The Data Warehousing Institute since 1996. During Barack Obama’s first term he was also appointed to the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in the working group on Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) where he worked on development of the Big Data strategy for the US government. In 2014 he was ranked by ExecRank as the #4 CTO in the United States (behind the CTOs from Amazon.com, Tesla Motors, and Intel) out of a pool of 10,000+ CTOs.
