Big Tech Meets MLB Playoffs
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Wednesday afternoons first post-season Major League Baseball game between Tampa Bay and Texas is the perfect time to reflect on the intersection of big tech and Americas favorite pastime. Tech and baseball mixed long before the phenomenon some eight years ago, but it wasnt until then that we started to see the advent of general managers hiring CIOs and companies like selling teams powerful slice-and-dice statistical software, allowing scouts and front offices to get fancy and sophisticated with player analysis. "Were the first team in professional sports that has done it across their entire venue," said Giants CIO Bill Schlough, who worked with software startup For every seat in our stadium that is not a season ticket, the price changes every day." "We have got a ton of video, still imagery, and graphics for the scoreboard," Whitney Kuszmaul, the Indians network manager, told , explaining that CommVaults Simpana software provides much-needed backup. In terms of tech, the team inked a multiyear deal with telecom services giant to provide the stadiums IP network infrastructure and unified communications system.