Intro to Your DataOps Advantage Podcast Series

Our first podcast will actually be about Hitachi Vantara. Yes. Our journey that we went through on the data lake, how we went down a data lake path, didn't maybe have the right kind of approach and didn't end up with the kind of results we wanted. So this story is going to be about the story of redemption of how we went down a path, realized we weren't delivering the right kind of value to our end users, paused and recalibrated where we were going. Now it takes a strong CIO, a brave CEO to admit to her executive team that the approach that she was taken may not have been right. And so we're going to actually walk through and see and stand in the shoes of our CIO, Renee Lahti, and to actually understand more about the kinds of decisions and challenges she had to go through and trying to corral the organization to take a different direction and some friends she picked up along the path in order to help her be successful.

It actually reminds me a lot of the movie Jason and the Argonauts now, the first one, not the remake, right. In the movie, Jason are the Argonauts, Jason assembles a team that's well aligned to go out and capture the golden fleece. Now along this journey, he runs into all kinds of monsters and evil creatures and other things that are trying to distract him from that journey. But the team is successful because they stay focused on the objective, which is to get the golden fleece and the team knows how to work together. That's the story you're going to hear about our team here at Hitachi Vantara. The team we put together to go forward to go seek the golden fleece buried in our data and leverage the data Lake and DataOps to achieve that. In the meantime, I hope you take the time to subscribe to Hitachi Vantara's DataOps podcast. We're going to explore a lot of different stories from a lot of different customers and the journeys they're taking. Lots of stuff to learn there. And by the way, I also hope you take the time to come to our users conference in October, which is a at Las Vegas. It's called NEXT 2019 and Hey, Viva baby, going to be there. Last point is, I hope you also follow me on Twitter again, at @schmarzo so until next time I'll see you on Twitter. Thanks.