Journey To AI Success with Ken Grohe of WekaIO HumAIn Podcast - Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Developer Tools, and Technical Education

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Ken Grohe is SVP & Chief Revenue Officer, Taos. Additionally, Ken Grohe has had 3 past jobs including SVP & GM at Barracuda Networks. He got a BS in Business Management from Boston College.
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Ken Grohe’s Website:https://www.taos.com  
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Outline: 
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(00:00) – Introduction
(01:27) – WEKA as you probably know, and some of the folks that might be data scientists listening in, they had to strip a wekabite. So it's 10 to the 30th power. That's a good way to future-proof it. It's all you can fit in a file system. A new way to do storage. It's all software, it's all service subscription through the people you're buying from every day. So if you run it through AWS in the cloud or on premises with Hewlett Packard, it's a great way to get things done and solve big problems. What WEKA is, is a modern and limitless parallel file system, that's easy to deploy any scale in the cloud or on premises for the people in the data center, solve big problems.
(05:15) –  71% of corporate data goes unused, despite how much money was spent to create this information data. And it's going on use. So that's amazing. So the average sale for us is a petabyte and that's two thirds of the time. It's on premises. One third of the time, it's in the cloud every time to go between the two.
(08:12) –  I can certainly think if you're in a university and at the end of the day, you want an AI project and I'll cut to the chase, not just for the greater good, but to recruit great talent. So when you're doing that and you're recruiting that type of talent, you're putting it into action. And that's probably going to be on premises. We allow you to put the right data at the right place at the right time to get, manage your information across the entire life cycle. So you make the money when you need it, and then you don't lose it when you really want to protect it for data protection.
(13:09) – Where you live in your hat in a COVID world, doesn't matter. They kept going. When you think about it, traditional Hollywood shut down during the beginning of COVID. Because you couldn't break the unions, you couldn't get the talent, the labor, they, Brad Pitt's Reese Witherspoon's to go on site, you couldn't see, you couldn't create any of the content we watched. The tiger came and things like that. But what I've told students able to do is enable them to create content. The need to have a parallel modern file system with no limits, no compromise. It was so important because you're going to bring all these engineers and all these scientists, you want to make breakthrough discoveries.
(16:22) –Some early in the career, 20 something, it says what am I going to do with the rest of my career? I heard AI is great. I'm telling you now the chi