Data unification solutions in focus for Illumina [Video]

Industries across the board today are facing the challenge of integrating cutting-edge technologies with established infrastructures. Companies are bringing together different data systems using data unification solutions to simplify work while staying flexible to new ideas.

One company navigating this challenge is Illumina Inc., which operates in the genomics space. The company has grown rapidly over the past couple of years and has had to move quickly to get things out the doors, according to Stephen Horn, staff data engineer with Illumina.

“A lot of the problems we started finding right away when we moved too quick sometimes, is we had a lot of different environments,” Horn said. “We had a lot of unique lab softwares, and within those lab softwares, they had their own operation system [and] they had their own databases.”

Horn spoke with theCUBE Research’s Bob Laliberte and co-host Rebecca Knight at the Cloudera Evolve24 eventduring an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. …