 last year but it was it was big this is their 17th annual big symposium with Stanford Excel partners big VC firm again this is Silicon Engels exclusive coverage of the Stanford Excel Enterprise event I'm joined my co-host for this Cube segment Jeff Kelly Jeff Kelly with Wikibon Jeff welcome back to Stanford you were here last year I actually didn't make it to this event last year but happy to be here this year and as you mentioned it was all about big data this year last year this year it's about bringing in the complete kind of a modern IT enterprise modern enterprise and IT infrastructure around big data cloud social so should be interesting event so we are here live in the lobby of the Stanford Alumni Center right in Stanford University great campus sunny day beautifully you can see the light coming the lights be shifting so but the big event here is Excel really put together a great program around the future of the enterprise and Excel is known for all our big consumer investments also everyone knows what they did with Facebook that was a home run beyond all recognition we could really imagine the success of Facebook that Excel had there and I saw Jim Breyer earlier and so some of the Excel partners you know they're all kind of spring in their step however what people don't know about Excel is that they have huge success in the enterprise and this program here today that we're going to hear and you're going to see also stream live on Silicon Engels is the enterprise focus Excel's a new number of investments they honestly are with the early stage investment of Clavier the leader in big data among others we got Dropbox we got Prezzi Microsoft's going to be here as well so we have a lot of big players here we're gonna try get the CEO of LinkedIn Jeff Winer was going to be swinging by he's gonna do a keynote and then get in now and try to grab him but also more importantly Stanford is announcing with Excel a scholar program an innovation scholar program that's going to be part of this technology venture program Tom Byers is gonna come by with Ping Lee so a big great event now Jeff I want to ask you look at the agenda what do you think this maps into obviously we're covering the cloud mobile social a big way with our big data focus of what you're leading the charge as well as David Floyd's worker on software-led infrastructure how does this agenda map into with the bonds research well what we're seeing is big data of course you know it's a big hot topic and has been for a couple years now a lot of the folks has been around some of the interesting things that the web companies are doing some of the more interesting analytic use cases that we're seeing really forward-looking enterprises use what we're seeing now is this conversation is starting to shift to the enterprise and exactly what the enterprise can learn from some of the early experiences of the big data pioneers but also you know others in the cloud space as well and how the two kind of interact big data provides a lot of benefit but it's also got a lot of requirements if you want to run it at scale in the enterprise cloud can help with that the modern SLI infrastructure can help with that so what we're seeing this year and what really maps to this agenda here at the show it's interesting as I mentioned last year was all about big data at this event this year it's more about the modern enterprise big data of course plays an important role in the modern enterprise but also all about cloud and SLI so we're seeing the two come together we're seeing enterprises start to bring these into their environments apply some enterprise great capabilities and really really making this thing big data and these other approaches really home in the enterprise so that's kind of what we're seeing out there and it certainly is reflected in I think the event this year here at Stanford. Jeff let me ask you a question what is your take on the absolute big data tsunami we have been covering like a blanket you were the first analysts to put out the first big data reports B-bond is the number one research firm on big data but big data has a lot of complexity we're now what three good years into what I call the tsunami of big data I count that fourth year it's more of a build-out year what has the impact of big data had on infrastructure and software-ledded software defined obviously data complexity is a big issue what have you seen well data complexity is an issue I think really what the impact on the infrastructure specifically is we're seeing in the enterprise a lot of proof of concepts and kind of those early experiments we're starting to the successful ones anyway we're starting to expand into production level deployments and when you expand you know big data deployments into production you're talking about significant scale you're talking about adding a lot of hardware and that has complexity that costs it's in terms of actually managing and and administrating systems like that it requires a lot of talent in automation software and there are a lot of areas that we're starting to see a focus on in the enterprise around big data again specifically around making the best use of the hardware operationalizing and making them run as efficiently as possible making kind of lowering energy costs trying to understand how it's going to impact the rest of the organization so really once you start to move these big dated proof of concepts and early deployments into full-scale production maybe you're moving to multiple deployments and multiple departments you've got to really start to consider the impact the hardware has and the infrastructure has hardware has on the infrastructure of the overall organization and of course it can impact both the bottom line can impact operations performance so these are all issues we're seeing the enterprise start to grapple with and that's only going to become more of an issue as we see more and more enterprises start to really blow out their big data big data deployments at the production level projects okay this is Silicon Angle of Wikibon's the Cube our flagship program we go out to the advanced extract of silicon and noise today is a very special event we're going to hear from obviously all the big-time VCs and the VCs they're like you know they carry a big lead foot when they hit the pavement everyone hears the earth's shatter because they have big money they're investing but we're also going to hear from not only the VCs we're going to hear from the big companies obviously Microsoft I'm going to try to get some Facebook guys in here as well but also the startups this is Excel partners events so you're going to hear from a lot of their funded startups so stay here on silicon angle.com one of three channels broadcasting live today get all the panels go to the Excel symposium sites called Stanford Excel.com and you'll see the agenda there look for the program there and you can find the panel discussions we're streaming live as well as our commentary here at silicon angle.com channel two and of course on channel one is the Amazon web summit services summit in San Francisco all the top developers so again all the action bringing to you here at Silicon Angle Wikibon exclusively. 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