At the end of day one of the VMworld conference in San Francisco, Wikibon’s John Furrier, Stu Miniman and Dave Vellante discussed several of the topics discussed in presentations and in interviews conducted on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE. Vellante started off by highlighting the keynote presentation offered this morning by Pat Gellsinger, stating it was very meaty ...

Wikibon’s Dave Vellante and David Floyer sat down with Aman Singh, the senior enterprise storage and backup architect for Jive Software on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE to discuss backup as a service and its future as the industry moves toward broader virtualization. Singh started off by stating Jive Software sees a future that will eventually make e-mail ...

David Floyer, resident CTO and Co-Founder of Wikibon, sat down with Dave Vellante on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE to discuss an important way forward in virtualization. As virtualization has seen relatively rapid adoption across many industries, one area that has not been brought along at the same speed is the idea of backup as a service. Traditional ...

The call for moving an enterprise into the virtualization market has been heralded this month by SiliconANGLE. Rackspace, in an announcement today, is showing how that transition has not only been made easier but also makes good sense for an organization’s bottom line. Rackspace, the company behind OpenStack, the standard open-source OS for cloud computing, ...

A recent Wikibon customer virtualization survey showed a couple of striking figures. Firstly, the number of respondents with no current plan to adopt a converged infrastructure plan for their organization increased by approximately one percent over last year’s survey. Conversely, those organizations considering adoption of converged infrastructure also fell by approximately one percent over the ...

Starting next Monday, SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE will be broadcasting live from the VMworld Conference being held in San Francisco. This series intends to highlight a few of the sessions and presentations being proffered by experts in the field. It felt only natural, as SiliconANGLE has been focusing on virtualization for the month of August, that we ...

Even before NetApp Inc. released their first-quarter earnings report this week, analysts were anticipating the company would substantially best their earnings from the same period last year. And, in fact, NetApp did just that. The company credits their 28 percent increase in profit on better-than-expected sales of their company-branded products along with the release of ...

Over the past several years, organizations have had to struggle with the decision on whether and how to transfer their data storage scheme from a traditional warehouse model to a virtualized environment. When you consider the relatively short amount of time virtualization has been a viable option, the adoption by many organizations has been swift. ...

In a big announcement out of Palo Alto today, HP rolled out their new HP Converged Storage technology. This investment in the transition to software-defined storage (SDS) is confirmation of what we at SiliconANGLE have been reporting on for some time. HP’s new StoreVirtual Virtual Storage Appliance (VSA) promises to significantly reduce IT costs for ...

SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE has been covering the HP Big Data Conference being held in Boston. It is interesting to note, as this was HP Vertica’s first Big Data conference, they were able to achieve maximum attendance, selling out the event. Dave Vellante of Wikibon pointed out the attendees were almost equally split between current HP customers ...