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The race is on : Formula 1 gets simulations, modeling + virtual analysis | #IBMpulse

Pulse 2014, IBM’s ongoing cloud event hailing from Las Vegas, is bringing together the luminaries of the tech world, exploring the strategic technology trends for 2014. Two we’re looking at during this week’s broadcast include the new era of workloads, and the trends driving the IT transformation to software-defined environments. Matt Cadieux, Infinity Red Bull ...

Integrated systems free up staff’s creativity | #IBMpulse

TheCUBE traveled again to Nevada, attending the IBM Pulse Conference in Las Vegas in order to deliver the hottest news in the tech industry. Joining John Furrier and Dave Vellante in the studio,  Peter McCaffery, Director of Marketing with IBM PureSystems, agreed to give an in-depth lowdown on IBM’s latest unfolding success stories. “What’s the ...

IBM’s worldwide expansion speeds with SoftLayer acquisition | #IBMpulse

John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, travelled to IBM Pulse 2014, the  Conference that strives to teach organizations how achieve more on the cloud, using the right tools and applying the right technologies. From February 23rd through the 26th, Las Vegas will be brimming with tech professionals and innovators that will debate the best technologies and the best practices ...

A new angle in sports : Winning the gold with Big Data | #BigDataSV

As part of this year’s Strata Conf. in Santa Clara, titled “Making Data Work”, David Epstein, Senior Writer with Sports Illustrated, delivered a Keynote which aimed to explain the role of “Small Data in Sports” and how “Little Differences Mean Big Outcomes.” “I want to talk about high performance in sports and what makes the ...

Opening up network hardware : The most inflexible thing in the industry is the human brain | #OCPSummit

Najam Ahmad, Director of Infrastructure with Facebook, hosted a Keynote panel titled “Opening Up Network Hardware” during Day Two of Open Compute Project Summit V. His guests on stage were: JR Rivers (Co-founder and CEO, Cumulus Networks), Martin Casado (Chief Architect, Networking, VMware), Matthew Liste (Managing Director, Core Platform Engineering, Goldman Sachs) and Dave Maltz ...

It’s fair to pay for innovation : Licensed software not going away | #OCPSummit

For Day Two of the fifth edition of Open Compute Summit in San Jose, California, Cole Crawford (Executive Director with OCP Foundation) was joined on stage by Justin Erenkrantz (Head of Cloud Architecture, Bloomberg), Jeremy Huylebroeck (Software and IT Architect, Orange) and Ron Williams (VP of Operations, Riot Games) for a Keynote panel exploring the ...

Solving the efficiency puzzle with Facebook’s DCIM Solution | #OCPSummit

Continuing the journey into Open Compute’s application in real life and the business environment, another Facebook executive, Tom Furlong (VP of Infrastructure Data Centers), took the stage at Open Compute Summit in San Jose, California, for a quick “Update on Facebook’s DCIM Solution“. Furlong reiterated that “Open Compute is changing the world,” and confessed that ...

DDN : Optimizing object storage efficiency with OCP | #OCPSummit

Tom Leyden, Director of Product Marketing with DataDirectNetworks, began his presentation for the Open Compute Summit with an arresting statement: “I am here to explain to you how a proprietary software vendor can help the Open Compute community be more efficient in building scale-out object storage, and how we leverage OCP to make our scale-out ...

Preparing customers for the digital storm | #BigDataSV

During the last day of Strata Conf 2014, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Kelly interviewed Ankur Gupta, General Manager with MetaScale, talking about the evolution of the industry in general and the evolution of MetaScale in particular. “Since the last time we spoke about Metascale, we announced our Hadoop appliance. We saw that the ...

Data as a fuel : Transforming how we evaluate, measure + act on consumer behavior | #BigDataSV

Broadcasting from #BigDataSV last week in Santa Clara, California, John Furrier and Jeff Kelly, theCUBE co-hosts, continued their quest in talking to the best Big Data practitioners by interviewing Abhishek Mehta, the CEO of Tresata. He was asked to elaborate on the challenges of being an entrepreneur and to pinpoint the trends and the blindspots ...