“The analysis of data in real-time or near real-time is important. And the infrastructure that does this, the analysis, the storage, the presentation and discovery tools—Pivotal offers all of this. They understand the nuances of our market, the tools that are appropriate and the kind of data the market produces. …

“We were already using VMware Greenplum as a gray box for all sorts of data at the university. We used it to make a contact tracing system that considers all the wireless access point logs, to see where and when students are co-located for long periods of time.”