Informationweek's Expert Voice

7 Keys To Building A Successful Big Data Infrastructure (Click image for larger view and slideshow.) "Hyperconverged infrastructure" sounds like the urban setting for Buck Rogers. Sure, we've been talking about it for a while, but is it a real thing or is it just a label marketing teams came up with for tried and true converged systems? In this episode of InformationWeek's Expert Voice, we get some answers and a look at where this futuristic-sounding technology might take us. {Image 1} Our guest this week is Stu Miniman, principal analyst at Wikibon and host of theCUBE. Stu is an active member of the networking (Ethernet and SAN), virtualization (vExpert 2011, 2012, 2013) and cloud communities. He is a proponent of linking information and people in IT by leveraging the latest tools and processes from the innovation and social media communities. Previously, Stu worked at EMC for 10 years; with a primary focus on storage networking and virtualization technologies. Prior to EMC he worked with voice/video/data