In recent years, the co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s live roving news desk, interviewed many of the most insightful and knowledgeable tech industry luminaries on-sight at various conferences and events—executives from Marten Mickos of Hewlett-Packard Co.‘s cloud division to Fadi Chehade of the Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to David Pogue of Yahoo Tech News.

Some of the most memorable interviews happened at events such as HP Discover Barcelona, HP Vertica BDC Conference, MIT CDOIQ Symposium, MIT ECIR and VMworld.

For this series of 2014 Reflections, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier, Dave Vellante, David Floyer, Jeff Kelly and Stu Miniman take a look back to remember their favorite theCUBE segments from the past year or so.

Vellante‘s favorite interviews included ones with John Halamka, Paula Long, Marten Mickos, Alan Nance, Steve Mills, Fadi Chehade, Fred Luddy, Pat Gelsinger, Nate Silver, and David Pogue. Check out the interviews in their entirety below (listed in no particular order).

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1. John Halamka, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, at MIT CDOIQ Symposium 2014

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John Halamka, CIO at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, spoke to Vellante and SiliconANGLE editor Paul Gillin at MIT CDOIQ Symposium 2014. Here, Halamka discusses multiple topics including the private and public cloud, healthcare and the ways in which SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud) enable better patient care, the changing role of the CIO, and cloud services provisioning.

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2. Paula Long, CEO and co-founder of DataGravity, at VMworld 2014

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Paula Long, CEO and co-founder of DataGravity, spoke to Vellante and Furrier at VMworld 2014. Here, Long warns that world domination does not happen from day one for startups. She goes on to dissect the trends of metadata and data-aware storage, and explains why the best place to turn to for insights is in data storage.

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3. Marten Mickos, head of HP‘s Cloud division, at HP Discover Barcelona 2014

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Marten Mickos, head of HP‘s cloud division, spoke to Vellante and Furrier at HP Discover Barcelona 2014. Here, Mickos discusses the cloud as one of the enablers of change and innovation at HP, HP Helion, open source, OpenStack, Amazon, Inc.’s Amazon Web Services, and where Eucalyptus fits into the cloud space now that it is part of HP.

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4. Alan Nance of Royal Philips NV, at HP Vertica BDC 2014

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Alan Nance of Royal Philips, spoke to Vellante and Furrier at HP Vertica BDC 2014. Royal Philips is a 140-year-old legacy company currently undergoing a massive tech transformation to standardize the end-to-end processes across all of its healthcare, lighting and consumer lifestyle businesses. Here, Nance discusses the company’s revolutionary consumption-based IT model that could well be the benchmark of how business may be done in the near future.

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5. Steve Mills, Senior VP at IBM, at IBM Flash 2013

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Steve Mills, Senior VP (and group executive of software and systems) at IBM, spoke to Vellante at IBM Flash 2013. Here, Mills discusses several topics including IBM’s announcement to invest $1 billion in flash storage. He also discusses open-source, Big Data and solid-state storage. According to Mills, the Big Data explosion is driving the pursuit for faster response times. As a result, flash is gaining traction in the enterprise and storage is moving closer to the processor.

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6. Fadi Chehade, President and CEO of ICANN, at MIT ECIR 2014

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Fadi Chehade, President and CEO of ICANN, spoke to Vellante and co-host Charles M. Sennott (Editor-at-Large with GlobalPost) at MIT ECIR 2014. Here, Chehade discusses several things including ICANN‘s responsibilities (i.e., managing the naming system of the Internet as well as maintaining the global IP numbering system). He also explains why the current (U.S.-based) system of Internet governance is unsustainable, as well as why and how the governance mechanisms of the Internet need to become global and inclusive to all countries.

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7. Fred Luddy, founder of ServiceNow, at ServiceNow Knowledge 2013

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Fred Luddy, founder of ServiceNow, spoke to Vellante and Wikibon‘s Jeff Frick at ServiceNow Knowledge 2013. Here, Luddy discusses several things including his career as a programmer, his vision of services for business process management (BPM), as well as various technology trends including SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud), the Internet of Things (IoT), unified data management (UDM), software-led architecture (SLA), and why enterprise email is a poor choice for enterprise communications workflow.

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8. Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, Inc., at VMworld 2013

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Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, spoke to Vellante and Furrier at VMworld 2013. Here, Gelsinger discusses tech topics including the software-defined data center, the maturity of the hybrid cloud, the agility and efficiency of OpenStack, the evolution of the IT worker, the virtual admin as the center of IT, and the blurring line between Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

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9. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com and ESPN, at the Tableau Customer Conference 2013

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Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com and ESPN, spoke to Vellante at the Tableau Customer Conference 2013. Here, Silver (a statistician who earned celebrity status after accurately predicting the results of the 2012 presidential election) shares his unique insights about Big Data analytics, his perspective on prediction markets (speculative markets that revolve around probabilities), his belief about the correlation between data sets and causality in data-driven enterprises, his take on how the value of Big Data cannot be unlocked without analysis, and he ends by drilling down into social media analytics.

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10. David Pogue, founder of Yahoo Tech News, at IBM Pulse 2014

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David Pogue, founder of Yahoo Tech News, spoke to Vellante and Furrier at IBM Pulse 2014. Pogue’s take on the tech scene today including his thoughts on Facebook, Inc. and Google, Steve Jobs and Apple, Bill Gates and Microsoft, the genesis of Yahoo Tech News, online/digital journalism, online identity and phone voice mail, the state of the consumer today, IBM’s cloud future, and Netflix, Inc./Comcast Corp. and net neutrality.

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Photo of Marten Mickos courtesy of theCUBE

All videos are courtesy of SiliconANGLE