How to bring eBay’s infrastructure to every company

Gigaom

Earlier this month, Hugh E. Williams made the move from vice president of experience, search and platforms at eBay to senior vice president of research and development at Pivotal, the cloud computing and big data vendor that spun out of EMC and VMware in 2012. The move was officially announced on Wednesday, and he came on the Structure Show podcast to explain why, and how he expects his experience operating advanced infrastructure at web companies will help him lead the development of products that can make life easier for all types of companies.

Here are highlights of that talk, but you’ll want to listen to the whole thing for more details on specific use cases for big data and why he thinks Pivotal’s technology portfolio, in particular, is well suited for enterprise deployments.