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HAVEn is “Radical + Awesome Approach” for HP Channel, says Avnet’s Patrick Stewart | #HPDiscover
Patrick Stewart, VP & GM, Avnet Technology Solutions, discussed Avnet’s collaboration with HP from a channel partner’s perspective with theCube host John Furrier, live at the HP Discover 2013 conference today. “HP is a great company to work with,” Stewart said, explaining Avnet collaborated with HP’s software side of the business. HP’s channel programs are ...
HP’s Dave Donatelli Speaks On Open Source, Software-Defined “Everything” [Exclusive VIDEO] #HPDiscover
Dave Donatelli , EVP & GM, Enterprise Group, HP, discussed the new technologies released by the company, storage trends and general IT challenges with theCube co-host John Furrier and Jeff Frick, live at the HP Discover conference. “We’re making tremendous progress,” Donatelli said, mentioning the company beat Wall Street expectation in the last quarter. “We’ve ...
Before Adopting Software-Defined Storage, You Must Know Where + What to Modify | #IBMEdge
Karim Abdullah, IT Operations Director, Technolgy Services at Sprint, discussed his company’s recent SVC implementation as well as software defined trends with theCube co-hosts Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman, live at the IBM Edge 2013 conference. Explaining Sprint’s choice of SVC, Abdullah said it had been a matter determined by costs and the need to replace ...
Think You’re Ready for Software-Defined Everything? Get Hip to the Culture Shift | #IBMEdge
Jamie Thomas, GM Software Defined Systems at IBM, and Matt Hogstrom, CTO, Software Defined Environments at IBM discussed infrastructure and “software-defined everything” with theCube host Dave Vellante, live at the IBM Edge 2013 conference this week. New to her position which she had been appointed to six weeks ago, Jamie Thomas commented on her role ...
We Don’t Need Perfect Infrastructures, Just Consistent App Deployments | #IBMEdge
Nancy Pearson, VP Expert Integrated Systems Marketing, IBM, discussed the results of the department she runs and the ecosystem IBM is building with theCube co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at the IBM Edge 2013 conference. “We’ve just had our first year anniversary,” she said, reporting they have sold over 4000 systems globally, and ...
Demystifying Software-defined Storage : SDS 3.0 Will be Analytics + Application Driven | #IBMEdge
Ed Walsh, VP Storage Marketing & Strategy, IBM, discussed software-defined storage and the data trends with theCube co-hosts, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at the IBM Edge 2013 conference. Talking about the IBM Edge 2013 event being double in size and different in scope compared to last year’s conference, Walsh said that, as it’s ...
“Strategy without execution is a hallucination,” says IBM’s Ambuj Goyal #IBMEdge
Ambuj Goyal, GM System Storage & Networking, who has recently joined the IBM team, discussed software-defined storage developments and data management with theCube co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, live at the IBM Edge 2013 conference in Las Vegas. “I think about storage as an archaic term because you throw stuff in it and you ...
Key Big Data Challenge : Deciding What to Keep + How to Use It #IBMEdge
Steve Wojtowecz, VP Storage & Network Management at IBM, explored Big Data and storage trends together with theCube co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at the IBM Edge 2014 conference in Las Vegas. Commenting on data growth, Wojtowecz said that “typically the majority of growth is in the copies. The challenge is to decide what ...
“Flash will be as disruptive to the data center as server virtualization,” says Brocade’s Jack Rondoni #IBMEdge
Jack Rondoni, VP, Data Center Storage and Solutions, Brocade, discussed the latest storage trends with theCube co-hosts John Furrier and Stu Miniman, live at the IBM Edge 2013 conference that kicked off this morning. “When I talk to customers, a lot of their challenges are ‘I have all these problems today, how can I think ...
CIOs: “Move away from your traditional roles or you’ll be left behind,” Warns EllisDon’s Joe Jagodich #Edge2013
Joe Jagodich, VP & CIO of EllisDon, discussed the impact of Big Data and IT on the construction industry with theCube co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier, live at the IBM Edge 2013 conference that kicked off today. EllisDon is a privately held company that’s been operating for over 60 years in the construction industry. ...