Tech Talks With Tom Smith: What and Why of DataOps

Our once-benevolent overlord turned ruthless dictator

Shekhar Iyer, President, StreamSets kicked off the first DataOps Summit with an observation about Amazon driving digital transformation. From Sheyhar’s perspective, Amazo isn’t an online retailer, it’s a technology company that initially disrupted the retail book industry; now it's the 1,600-pound gorilla radically changing any industry it targets.

The largest healthcare companies in the U.S. lost $30 billion market cap when Amazon announced they were entering the healthcare market. Amazon is an example of a new breed of companies that “go fast and get things done right.”