John Bantleman, CEO of RainStor, has more than 20 years’ experience in the management of software companies. Prior to overseeing RainStor, he transformed LBMS into a $45 million business prior to its successful NASDAQ flotation in 1997. Today’s LBMS’ technology is now part of CA’s product portfolio. The following year John was instrumental in the launch of Evolve, and drove the company through to a successful IPO on NASDAQ.
Returning to the UK in 2003, John spent 12 months working on the advisory boards of venture capital organizations such as Apax Partners. He joined RainStor Inc. as Chairman in 2004 and became CEO at the start of 2007 and relocated back to the US to head-up worldwide operations in 2009.
The good news about the Big Data market is that we generally all agree on the
definition of Big Data, which has come to be known as data that has volume,
velocity and variety where businesses need to collect, store, manage and
analyze in order to derive business value or otherwise known as the "4 V's."
However, the problem with such a broad definition is that it can mean
different things to different people once you start to put some real values
next to those V's.
Let's be honest, Volume can be a different thing to different organizations.
To some it is anything above 10 terabytes of managed data in their BI
environment and to others it is petabyte scale and nothing less. Likewise
velocity can be multi-billions of daily records coming into the enterprise
from various external and internal networks. When it really comes down to it,
each business situation will be qu... (more)
John Bantleman, CEO of RainStor, has more than 20 years’ experience in the management of software companies. Prior to overseeing RainStor, he transformed LBMS into a $45 million business prior to its successful NASDAQ flotation in 1997. Today’s LBMS’ technology is now part of CA’s product portfolio. The following year John was instrumental in the launch of Evolve, and drove the company through to a successful IPO on NASDAQ.
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