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From the court to the cloud : Passionate for the new economy | #reinvent
On Thursday’s broadcast of SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, the CEO of SportXast, Molly Cernicek stopped by to talk with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. The company’s app, currently available on iOS, allows fanatical fans and proud parents to capture the best moments in youth, high school and college sports. Expect the app to show up on the ...
Coursera doubles down on the cloud | #reinvent
At this week’s ASW re:Invent 2013 conference in Las Vegas, John Furrier and Dave Vellante welcomed Brennan Saeta, Infrastructure Engineer with Coursera. Coursera is an education company that partners with the top universities and organizations in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free. Furrier noted the disruptive quality of Coursera, ...
Tableau is seeding the cloud | #reinvent
Towards the end of Wednesday’s live broadcast of theCUBE at the AWS re:Invent 2013 conference, hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante welcomed Paul Lilford, the Channel Director for Technology Partners with Tableau Software. Furrier commented on how the conference seemed to be highly focused on attracting the developer and Lilford’s presence at the conference spoke ...
A government with its head in the cloud | #reinvent
SiliconANGLEs theCUBE broadcast live from the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas at the AWS re:Invent 2013 conference this week. On Wednesday, SiliconANGLEs John Furrier and Dave Vellante, co-founder of Wikibon, sat down with the vice president of Amazon Web Services Worldwide Public Sector, Teresa Carlson. The conversation immediately turned to the birth and growth ...
More services make the cloud more attractive | AWS re:Invent 2013
At this week’s AWS re:Invent 2013 conference, Nima Badiey of Pivotal sat down with SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier and Jeff Kelly, Principle Research Contributor to Wikibon on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE. Pivotal made a bit of a splash on Tuesday when they announced Pivotal One, a comprehensive, multi-cloud enterprise PaaS that runs on top of Pivotal CF. ...
AWS re:Invent 2013: Analyzing next-gen consumer cloud services #reinvent
In the second interview segment on SiliconANGLE’s TheCUBE, broadcasting live from the AWS re: Invent 2013 conference in Las Vegas, Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE’s John Furrier welcomed Jillian Mirandi, Software and Cloud analyst with TBR Research. Beginning the broadcast Mirandi was asked to rank the primary cloud providers among AWS, Rackspace, IBM, VMware and ...
AWS re:Invent 2013 conference kickoff | #reinvent
Kicking off this year’s AWS re:Invent 2013 conference in Las Vegas, Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante and SiliconANGLE’s founder John Furrier offered a quick prequel of what we can expect to learn over the next few days. This is the 2nd annual AWS reinvent conference and is really the coming out party for Amazon Web Services ...
Better Healtcare Delivery Through Business Intelligence | #tcc13
Joining Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly on SiliconANGLE’s theCube was Mark Jackson, Manager of Business Intelligence and Management Reporting for Piedmont Healthcare. Piedmont Healthcare is one of the largest physician-owned and directed, multi-specialty groups in North Carolina and the Southeast region. With the advent of the Affordable Care Act, Piedmont has recently gone live ...
Understanding the Role of Big Data Analytics | #tcc13
Kicking off the Tableau Customer Conference in Washington, D.C., Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly welcomed Simon Zhang to SiliconANGLE’s live broadcast of theCUBE. Zhang is currently the Business Analytics Director for LinkedIn, a company regarded as one of the biggest practitioners of Big Data analytics in the industry. Zhang’s personal history is interesting because ...
VMware Has Their Head In The Clouds #VMworld
As day 3 of the VMworld was drawing to a close SilconANGLE’s John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante welcomed Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Management for VMware, Ramin Sayar. As we have sought deeper understanding of the emerging virtualization market, Sayar spoke of the corporate culture of VMware and the direction they ...