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Top Ways Virtualization Simplifies Your Life

The first week of August was National Simplify Your Life Week, and although many people tend to think of information technology as a complication we have added to life, there are ways you can use it to make life simpler. For data centers, the old model of server deployment and management was complex, slow, and ...

Oracle’s In-Memory Fast but Expensive, Say Partners

Oracle’s announcement of its In-Memory offering was welcomed by many who were impressed by its amazing speed. CEO Larry Ellison described the In-Memory Database processing as having “ungodly speed”, but it is also in a market that is “ripe for the picking” by open source competitors. Actually, the general reaction to Oracle’s announcement seems to ...

Wikibon Declares Oracle’s ZFS Appliance True “Flash-First” Hybrid

Oracle has once again raised the flash storage bar with its latest products, the ZS3-2 and ZS3-4 storage systems. Oracle is quick to point out that these new systems outperform comparable NetApp midrange platforms. Wikibon took a closer look at the storage appliances to see if they really measure up to those claims. Wikibon determined ...

NetApp Infographic Chronicles Birth of Software-Defined Data Centers

NetApp has released an infographic that chronicles the birth of the software-defined data center. Describing it as an “evolution”, the infographic highlights milestones starting with the siloed data centers of the 90s up to present day hybrid clouds, as well as its prediction for the future. According to the infographic, the dot-com revolution redefined the ...

Big Data Has Evolved, says Alteryx | #tcc13

When SiliconANGLE first brought big data to the attention of its viewers, it was still unclear just how far people would take it. It has since evolved and gained a foothold in many organizations. Alteryx is one such organization, and its President and COO, George Mathew sat down with The CUBE hosts Dave Vellante and ...

Tableau Simplifies Big Data Banking | #tcc13

Tableau Consumer Conference 2013 features many of the company’s big data customers who have found ways to use Tableau’s technology to make their businesses better. One such company is Barclays, a UK-based multinational banking and financial services company. At #tcc13, The CUBE hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly sat down with Carl Allchin Customer Insight ...

Paychex Weighs in on Big Data Visualization | #tcc13

Covering the Tableau Customer Conference 2013, The CUBE hosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly had an opportunity to chat with Coy Gupta, Global Search Architect of Paychex, about how the company is using Tableau to aggregate the company’s web data and internal data. Paychex deals with a large amount of data, and that data continues ...

Fujitsu Promises Continued End-to-End Innovation | #VMworld

In day four of VMworld 2013, theCUBE offered extended coverage with a special interview with Richard McCormack, Senior Vice President of Marketing at Fujitsu about some of the company’s past innovations and a look to the future. McCormack described the company’s SAP appliance as something that can be delivered into a customer environment alongside its ...

VMware’s Strong Virtualization Core and Possible Future in Networking | #VMworld

At the close of Day 3 of VMworld 2013, theCUBE hosts Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman met to wrap-up the day and discuss their impressions of VMworld, VMware, and the future of the industry. According to Vellante, VMware’s vSphere is its core and is very strong. The company is continuously launching new capabilities from that ...

EMC’s Role in VMware’s Storage Future | #VMworld

Since EMC’s acquisition of VMware in 2004, much has been said about the relationship between the two companies. How does a company react when its subsidiary partners with competition? Does EMC always have the inside track on VMware? Hosts of the CUBE, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman had the opportunity to talk with Chad Sakac, ...