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It’s foolish for any company to think they can figure it all out : IBM defends open source | #IBMpulse

John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, traveled to Las Vegas to cover IBM Pulse 2014 and the hot topics regarding the optimization of the world’s business infrastructure. As part of their quest to interview the thought leaders in the industry, they managed to get hold of Doug Balog, GM of Power Systems with IBM ...

Openness : the best thing that happened to networking | #ONS2014

Broadcasting live from the Open Networking Summit held in the Santa Clara Convention Center, right in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stu Miniman invited Brent Salisbury and Madhu Venguopal into theCUBE to talk about the key developments and deployments in the industry and to elaborate on their work with Red Hat. Madhu Venguopal, Sr. Principal ...

CrowdChat : Reinventing the way people communicate | #BigDataSV

John Furrier appeared in theCUBE at BigDataSV conference in Santa Clara, California, from a slightly different angle, after trading co-hosting for the interviewee’s chair. Dave Vellante of Wikibon did the honors of interviewing John Furrier and Dani Rayan, co founders of CrowdChat, a company looking at the confluence of some major trends: Big Data, analytics ...

Flash is the way for in-memory in the modern data center | #BigDataSV

John Furrier and Jeff Kelly, theCUBE co-hosts for Day 3 of BigDataSV Conference in Santa Clara, welcomed Brian Bulkowski, Founder and CTO with Aerospike, to talk about the Big Data market dynamics and the Aerospike value proposition. “The value for in-memory is really amazing,” stated Furrier, inviting Bulkowski to talk more about the current hype ...

Tech is the basis for solving customer’s problems | #BigDataSV

Mark Terenzoni, CEO of Sqrrl, joined Jeff Frick in theCUBE for a quick update on the company, during the BigData SV Conference in Santa Clara. “We finished off 2013 ahead of plan on customers, ahead of plan on bookings, we doubled the staff and moved the offices. For sure, it was an exciting year for ...

GE’s Industrial Internet : Competing in analytics, not machines | #BigDataSV

Steven Gustafson, R&D Manager of Knowledge Discovery Lab with GE Research Lab, sat down with John Furrier and Jeff Kelly during the BigData SV Conference in Santa Clara to share with theCUBE audience the GE vision of the industrial internet. “GE is a big company doing a lot of small data,” Furrier joked. “In reality, ...

VMware’s Goldilocks hypervisor : Best of both worlds for security | #ONS2014

Straight off  his rather animated presentation on stage of the Open Networking Summit 2014 in Santa Clara, Martin Casado, Chief Architect of Networking with VMware, joined John Furrier and Stu Miniman in theCUBE, to debate the DevOps culture, the creativity, new dawn and the infancy of the ‘revolution’ in the modern data center. Referring to ...

Brocade CTO on OpenDaylight : How Services model works under the hood| #ONS2014

Dave Meyer, CTO and Chief Scientist with Brocade, visited theCUBE in Santa Clara at the Open Networking Summit 2014, where John Furrier and Stu Miniman were on the hunt for the best and brightest minds in the tech industry. Meyer began by showing theCUBE audience a coin: “Everyone that submitted code to the OpenDaylight, Hydrogen ...

Data does not equal information | #BigDataSV

Jeff Kelly, Principal Research Contributor with Wikibon, and John Furrier, SiliconANGLE CEO, traveled to Santa Clara last month seeking a clear perspective on the future of Big Data from the best minds in the industry. Lenny Blyuhker, VP of Engineering with JiWire, joined them in theCUBE to talk about a wide range of topics, from the ...

Bringing together leaders and innovators from all parts of the ecosystem | #ONS2014

John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, traveled again to Santa Clara to attend the Open Networking Summit 2014. The event brought together engineers, business leaders and researchers, aiming to explore and share the key developments and in the quickly-evolving world of OpenFlow/SDN. Trying to find out how open source is going to transform the ...