The IT industry is a decade into a 30-year journey to the cloud, says visionary David Scott, Senior VP for Storage at Hewlett-Packard. “The debate about whether cloud will be a big part of the future of computing is almost ended now,” he told Wikibon Co-Founder David Vellante in an interview on SiliconAngle.TV from the 2011 ...

Taking a page from IBM’s book, Dell is building a platform-agnostic services business, says Dell Director of SMB Business Tony Parkinson, but where IBM focuses on large enterprises, Dell is focusing on SMBs. “Really the IT guy at a small business has one of the hardest jobs in the IT industry,” he said on a ...

Wikibon CTO and leading storage industry analyst David Floyer gives high marks to HP’s Infrastructure 2.0 platform, announced today at the opening of HP Discover in Las Vegas. Writing from the show floor, Floyer calls the announcement “a bold commitment to a converged storage strategy” and notes that HP is one of only two vendors ...

By combining high performance computing technologies, including Fusion-io NAND Flash storage, in its Stratosphere desktop virtualization appliances, V3 Systems can deliver virtualized desktops to populations of 50-400 devices at two-to-six times the performance levels of stand-alone desktops or laptops, says V3 CEO Peter Bookman. This, he told Wikibon Co-Founder David Vellante and SiliconAngle Founder John ...

A new must-read white paper on on Wikibon.org, Storage Directions in an Era of Big Data,  defines the major forces and trends in the storage industry and the major trends that will define IT development for the coming decade. It also has established its author, David Floyer, former IDC analyst and co-founder and CTO of Wikibon.org, ...

Far from being a threat to EMC’s storage business, SAP’s HANA In-Memory Appliance is good for storage, says EMC VP and General Manager of the EMC Advanced Technology Group Don D’Errico in an interview on SiliconAngle.tv live from SAPphire 2011. And while to an extent the proto-architecture it represents competes with the direction of EMC’s ...

“Just in time for SAPphire, we’ve passed customer number 500 with Business ByDesign, and we now see the market momentum we have been fighting for for the last couple of years,” said Reiner Zinow, SVP for Business ByDesign, in an interview webcast live on SiliconAngle.com from SAPphire 2011. The conference marked ByDesign’s maturation in another ...

Despite the virtualization/cloud computing/mobile office technology revolution, and despite virtualizing 85% of EMC’s own internal infrastructure (http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/05/17/85-virtualization-shifts-emcs-it-budget-ratio-to-50-innovation/), the real challenge is not rebuilding your entire IT infrastructure, says Tony Pagliarulo, the VP of EMC’s IT Service Delivery Group. It’s making IT relevant, responsive, and most of all accessible to the business. “When I think of ...

When EMC President Joe Tucci gave him a directive to innovate, Tony Pagliarulo, VP of the IT Service Delivery Group set an ambitious goal – 100% virtualization. Three years later, EMC is 85% there. On the way, he told Wikibon Co-Founder David Vellante and SiliconAngle Founder John Furrier, he had to take some risks despite ...

“We have gotten a lot of positive feedback on our innovation strategy in the last year,” says SAP Co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe. “We are very confident that this is a time to innovate, not consolidate.” SAP and Sybase together have 170,000 customers running their software in-house, he told Wikibon Co-Founder David Vellante and SiliconAngle Founder ...