Chandler Hoisington, D2iQ | D2iQ Journey to Cloud Native
Channel: SiliconANGLE theCUBE
Date: 2019-11-07

Chandler Hoisington, SVP Engineering & Product, D2iQ, talks with Jeff Frick from D2iQ HQ in San Francisco, CA.

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https://siliconangle.com/2019/11/26/no-free-puppy-how-d2iq-helps-customers-navigate-open-source-journey-in-cloud-native-world-d2iq/

Machine learning a priority

One potential future opportunity for the open-source community involves the rapidly advancing field of machine learning. It’s an area that D2iQ’s co-founder is familiar with, having written his college thesis on machine learning and natural language processing.

“One of my top priorities is around machine learning,” Knaup said. “It’s like a hammer; you can solve a lot of problems with it. We’re seeing more customers adopt machine learning to do all kinds of interesting problems, like predictive maintenance in a factory where every minute of downtime costs a lot of money.”

Mobile tech giant Deutsche Telekom AG and its U.S. subsidiary T- Mobile have used machine-learning tools based on the cloud infrastructure managed by D2iQ. The German telecommunications firm is using machine learning to help customers optimize connectivity based on automated tools for performance and cost evaluation.

Meanwhile, there is a growing library of open-source tools becoming available for developers interested in leveraging the technology within the cloud-native world.

“We’re seeing a lot of the open-source best practices move over to machine learning,” Knaup said. “You can already see open community hubs spinning up where people publish models that you can just take; they’re pre-trained.”

Knaup’s company is looking to capitalize on the appeal of both open-source and cloud with the technology, training, services and support that enterprises need for the complicated cloud-native journey. In a fast-moving industry, D2iQ has rebranded itself to offer a wide range of options while anticipating what the next significant customer need may be.

“What customers want is the ability to move their technology and platforms as the business has the need,” Hoisington said. “It’s understanding our customers, understanding their business, where they want to go, goals for their technology platforms, and making sure we’re always one step ahead of them.”

Watch the complete video interview with Hoisington below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE’s coverage of the D2iQ Journey to Cloud Native event. (* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the D2iQ Journey to Cloud Native event. Neither D2iQ Inc., the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)