The business world is buzzing about the hybrid cloud, and while some have adopted it wholeheartedly, others are more skeptical. Cirrity President and CTO Dan Timko had a chat with the hosts of The Cube about the hybrid cloud, compliance, and privacy at VMworld 2013. Many small to medium sized businesses are going all into ...

What is it like being the CIO of a large corporation that specializes in delivering solutions for other CIOs? NetApp’s CIO Cynthia Stoddard sat down with The Cube hosts to talk about it at VMworld 2013. Wearing a VMware baseball  jersey with AT&T Park in the background, Stoddard revealed some of the inner workings of ...

Continuing theCube’s coverage of NetApp’s special VMworld event at AT&T Park yesterday evening, co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Exostar’s director of IT, Raj Dasgupta about the company’s cloud computing initiatives. Exostar, which specializes in providing software-as-a-service (SaaS) for aerospace, defense, and life sciences industries, regularly encounters many of the security and privacy ...

As the concept of a software-defined data center continues to take shape, companies like NetApp are offering customers packaged deals that integrate multiple technologies even across diverse vendors. theCube team sat down with NetApp’s Director of Technical Marketing Vaughn Stewart and CTO Jay Kidd to talk about what NetApp is doing to define the direction ...

Dell is preparing for a major transition within the company, as it leaves the public trading arena and returns to being privately owned. Along with that financial transition, Dell is also moving away from the isolated PC and laptop sales and moving toward a more comprehensive enterprise-level offering. Dell’s converged infrastructure offerings are at the ...

Yesterday at VMworld 2013, The Cube hosted two guests from EMC, Stephen Manley, CTO and Deepak Mohan, SVP of Backup and Recovery Systems (BRS). This particular segment of The Cube was designed to shine a spotlight on virtualization and backup. According to Mohan, EMC has become the largest data protection provider in the world, intently ...

Barracuda has been in the storage business for a while now, but most people are probably still more familiar with the company’s security solutions. Guy Suter, GM of Storage at Barracuda hopes to change that. Mr. Suter sat down for a chat with John Furrier and Dave Vellante, hosts of The Cube, at VMworld 2013. ...

At last week’s O’Reilly Strata Conference, The Cube hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante had the opportunity to talk with Ron Bodkin, founder and CEO of Think Big Analytics, about the company’s recent growth and how enterprises approach big data. Bodkin began by revealing that Think Big had announced its seed round of raising $3 ...

Last week’s O’Reilly Strata Conference brought many of the big names in big data together to build relationships and exchange ideas. The Cube host Jeff Kelly had the chance to sit down and discuss developments with one of them, Lawrence Schwartz Vice President of Marketing at Tokutek. To kick off the interview, Kelly asked Schwartz ...

The Oracle stance on virtualization is that it is not officially supported. As a someone with large Oracle installations, you have the option to heed these warnings or attempt to virtualize Oracle yourself. The reality is that many organizations already have, and Wikibon.org provided an enlightening look into the minds of 15 CIOs who had ...