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Risk Sharing, Absolute Compatibility + Transparency, VMware’s Public Cloud Strategy #VMworld
Bill Fathers, SVP and GM at Cloud Services, VMware, discussed the company’s hybrid and public cloud strategies with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at VMWorld 2013. Talking about hybrid cloud adoption in the enterprise, Fathers explains, “every enterprise client we speak to has already started to experiment with public cloud,” they are ...
ServiceMesh Already Offers Solutions Competitors Are Just Starting to Develop in Cloud Management #VMworld
Shawn Douglass, ServiceMesh CTO discussed cloud management, software defined everything and virtualization trends with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at VMWorld 2013. When it comes to orchestration and service management, companies like VMware are moving towards the software defined data center and virtualization of everything, Douglass explains. Everyone is also talking about ...
Enterprise Focus in Product Design and Great Teams, Entrepreneur Success Recipe #VMworld
Dr. Stephen Herrod, former CTO at VMware, discussed his new position as Partner at General Catalyst with theCube co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante. The three also discuss the ideas Herrod looks to invest in live at VMWorld 2013 in San Francisco. Reminiscing about his time as CTO of VMware, Herrod admitted to missing the ...
What Makes VCE So Special? “We have credibility now,” says CEO | #VMworld
Praveen Akkiraju, CEO of VCE, discussed converged infrastructure trends and the evolution of VCE with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at VMWorld 2013. Asked about the VMWorld experience, Akkiraju said VCE has partnered with VMware extensively. As far as converged infrastructure is concerned, the customers now understand the fundamental concepts and the benefits, ...
Software-Defined Datacenter Requires More Intelligent Infrastructure | #VMworld
Hu Yoshida, VP and CTO, Hitachi Data Systems, discussed his company’s relationship with VMware and software-defined data center trends with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at VMWorld 2013. “23,000 people, it’s quite amazing, it shows the impact of virtualizaiton,” Yoshida said, commenting on this year’s edition of VMWorld. Virtualization is where the ...
CommVault Turns Backup Data into Business Assets + Value | #VMworld
David West, SVP WW Marketing and Business Development at CommVault Systems, discussed the shift from seeing data backup and recovery as an afterthought to a driver of business value with theCUBE host Dave Vellante, live at VMWorld 2013. “Backup and recovery in a virtual environment, especially with mission critical applications, is very different,” West said. ...
Everyone’s Trying to Solve Virtualization’s Storage Performance Woes | #VMworld
Poojan Kumar, CEO and Co-founder at PernixData, discussed his startup’s vision of a software solution to the server performance issue of virtualization with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Stu Miniman, live at VMWorld 2013. “VMWorld is an exciting time for us,” Kumar said. “Everything we do is centered around VMware, so this is the biggest ...
The Era of Intelligent Business Users : Demand for Software-Defined Everything | #VMworld
Chuck Hollis, Chief Strategist at VMware, discussed software-defined everything and the future of VMware in storage in networking with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at VMWorld 2013. Explaining his decision to join VMware, Hollis said, “I really believe in software-defined everything, software-defined data center, software-defined storage — I think the entire industry ...
Active Data Sets Must be in Flash : The All-Flash Data Center of the Future | #VMworld
Gary Orenstein, EVP at Fusion-io, discussed virtualization trends and the role of flash in delivering fast data, with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at VMWorld 2013. See the entire segment below. One of the main benefits driving server virtualization, according Orenstein, is “the flexibility that you get with these configurations” when it ...
How Do We Make Star Trek a Reality? Converged Infrastructure | #VMworld
Stephen DeWitt, SVP & GM, Global Marketing for the Enterprise Group at HP, discussed the future of the company and the major shifts in IT with theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at VMWorld 2013. “HP has been around for a long time,” DeWitt said, and “technology was necessary to solve a problem ...