Alan McStravick


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Red Hat’s RHEL 7 RC opens wide next week | #RHSummit

This year’s 10th anniversary of the Red Hat Summit has yielded some interesting and important insights into the continued acceptance and growth of open source for the Enterprise. Jim Totton, the Vice President and General Manager for Platform with Red Hat, joined John Furrier and Stu Miniman on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE to discuss the focus of ...

Public sector slowly embracing cloud and open source | #RHSummit

The Red Hat Summit, celebrating its 10th anniversary this week, is being held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Continuing its commitment to live coverage of tech events, SilconANGLE’s theCUBE is there, hosted by SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier. One aspect of the cloud revolution we are currently in the midst of and that is ...

Severalnines CEO on architecting for failure | #PerconaLive

Joining Jeff Frick on theCUBE at last week’s #PerconaLive event was Vinay Joosery, CEO and co-founder of Severalnines, a company whose name derives from the term connoting optimal percentage of availability DBA’s strive for. Joosery took time to share with Frick the particulars behind Severalnines, their place in the MySQL space and the importance of ...

MySQL’s strength is its community | #PerconaLive

This week’s #PerconaLive event in Santa Clara, CA brought together devotees of the MySQL infrastructure from across the nation and the globe. Tim Callaghan, who serves as the VP of Engineering with Tokutek, has a perspective and product line that is able to recognize the benefits and drawbacks of both MySQL and NoSQL. He stopped ...

Continued expansion of IaaS leading to collision between conflicting compliance laws | #PerconaLive

Frequent viewers of SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE are most often provided insight to trends, products and companies by a host of tech executives, practitioners, analysts, marketers and other members of the press. Host Jeff Frick welcomed a guest whose specific expertise is markedly important for ensuring the peace of mind of the Enterprise and the general public ...

MySQL movement still revolutionary, still young | #PerconaLive

In attendance at this week’s #PerconaLive event in Santa Clara, CA was Carl W. Olofson of the International Data Corporation (IDC) where he serves as the Research Vice President over Application Development and Deployment. Co-hosts of SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, Jeff Frick and John Furrier, welcomed Olofson to share his insight on the future of MySQL, especially ...

Galera Cluster excels at both synchronicity and scalability | #PerconaLive

General Manager of SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, Jeff Frick, welcomed the co-founder of Codership, Alex Yurchenko, to speak about his new product, Galera Cluster which, it should be noted, was recognized at this week’s #PerconaLive event with the MySQL Community Award. Speaking of the derivation of the name for the product, Yurchenko alluded to its Latin roots. ...

Transformation of data center through Flash already substantial | #PerconaLive

With over 1000 attendees at this year’s #PerconaLive event in Santa Clara, CA, the open source community has shown that there is still a strong interest in and demand for the MySQL platform. SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE broadcast team covered many perspectives from professionals across the entire spectrum. John Furrier and Jeff Frick welcomed Nisha Talagala, Lead ...

Competition and innovation benefit all MySQL users |#PerconaLive

At the end of day 1 of this week’s #PerconaLive event, co-founder and CEO of Percona, Peter Zaitsev, joined John Furrier and Jeff Kelly in theCUBE to discuss this year’s event, developments in the MySQL community and where Percona has been and where they are going. Percona only took control of the event from O’Reilly ...

Mirantis: OpenStack is no longer just for cloud | #PerconaLive

Mirantis has established themselves as the leaders in the OpenStack movement. In fact, SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier, in welcoming co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer Boris Renski to the live broadcast of theCUBE at this week’s #PerconaLive event, claimed Mirantis is the company called upon when companies simply want a truck to back up to their ...