Alan McStravick


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IBM throwing down the gauntlet before Intel and Amazon | #ibmimpact

One of the interesting aspects of SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE is that we often are able to discuss in depth with the executives of the company putting on the conference some of the keynote topics brought up earlier in the day. theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Paul Gillin welcomed the Senior Vice President and Group Executive for ...

Without a mobile strategy, you’re going to get buried | #IBMimpact

In continuing live coverage of this week’s IBM Impact conference being held in Las Vegas’ The Venetian Resort and Casino, SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, hosted by John Furrier and Paul Gillin, welcomed Maribel Lopez to discuss the evolution of mobile technology and the need for each and every company to begin implementing a perpetual mobile strategy. Lopez ...

ThinkRite: innovating the analytics of personnel productivity | #IBMimpact

Broadcasting live from the IBM Impact conference at the Venetian Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE welcomed the Social Strategist and Social Business Practice Manager for ThinkRite, Keith Brooks. Co-hosts John Furrier and Paul Gillin asked Brooks about the power of Big Data and analytics and how his company is capitalizing on these ...

With new Power8 processor, IBM has Intel in their crosshairs | #IBMimpact

The IBM Impact conference kicked off this week at Las Vegas’ The Venetian Resort. SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, hosted by John Furrier and Paul Gillin, welcomed the General Manager for Power Systems at IBM, Doug Balog, to discuss the new Power8 processor, which appears to be IBM’s shot across the bow of Intel’s current dominance in the ...

Applications key to ‘lighting up the cloud’ | #RHSummit

Over the previous two days, SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE has broadcast live from this year’s Red Hat Summit, held in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The final guest joining co-hosts Stu Miniman and John Furrier was the Senior Vice President of the Application Platform Products Business Group for Red Hat, Craig Muzilla. He discussed what he ...

Infrastructure and platform categories to be completely obliterated | #RHSummit

At this week’s Red Hat Summit, celebrating its 10th anniversary, co-hosts of SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, John Furrier and Stu Miniman, welcomed several members of the Red Hat executive team. Early yesterday, Brian Stevens, Executive Vice President and CTO for the company, stopped in to discuss this year’s summit, how the open source community will effectively erase ...

Hortonworks: the Red Hat of Hadoop | #RHSummit

Red Hat has long been lauded for their approach of focusing on and building a sound infrastructure upon which all of their subsequent innovations were built. Their open source approach was and continues to be fairly unique, leading many tech pundits to claim their model was a one-off success. Most people take it as a ...

DevOps behind emergence of continuous innovation, delivery becoming standard practice | #RHSummit

Ask anyone in DevOps about the unicorns in their field and they will tell you about the companies that have embraced the concept of allowing their developers to conceive, write and deploy their code quickly and continually. At Facebook and Google and Amazon, the mantra is ‘Fail Fast’. Joining John Furrier and Stu Miniman at ...

Open source now tier 1 for software development | #RHSummit

As Day 2 begins, I wanted to take the time to remember all the way back to yesterday on theCUBE. It may have been only 24 short hours ago, but the conversations had with some of the top executives, regarded by John Furrier as luminaries in their field, really highlighted the overall maturity of Linux ...

Attention enterprise: beware of quasi-open source | #RHSummit

The Moscone Center in San Francisco is the scene of this week’s Red Hat Summit, now in its 10th year. John Furrier and Stu Miniman welcomed the President of Products and Technology for Red Hat, Paul Cormier, to one of the final interviews for Day 1 on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE. The history of Red Hat and ...