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SAP Business ByDesign Gives More Bank for the Buck
SAP’s Business ByDesign has proven to be a key to success for Pinkberry Ventures, an LA-based frozen yogurt chain founded in 2005 and doubling its size year-to-year, says Pinkberry Business Systems Analyst Judson Wickham. When the company was launched, “we were looking for an affordable business management platform that could scale with our growth,” he ...
Collaboration is Power
Box.net has combined a simple idea – people want to share electronic files of all kinds on whatever devices they want to use – with the latest communications technology and a very clean, focused design to take the market by storm, says company General Manager Whitney Tidmarsh Bouck. It is well established in the SMB ...
SAIC Helps Small Utilities Modernize with Smart Grid-as-a-Service
“One of the best ways of reducing the cost of electricity is to get customers in their houses to moderate their electrical usage during peak demand hours by doing things like turning off their pool pump or air conditioning or delay recharging electric cars until off-peak times,” says Erik Naugle, SVP for Managed IT Solutions ...
Customers Love EMC Because of its Tight Integration with VMware
A recent Wikibon.org survey of users confirmed that VMware is the most popular storage, backup and recovery, and security infrastructure vendor, says Wikibon.org Co-Founder David Vellante. Even customers who don’t have EMC wish they did. So why is that, he asked Chad Sakac, VP of the VMware Technology Alliance on SiliconAngle.com’s live Webcast from VMworld ...
Virtualizing Oracle on VMware Offers Many Benefits, Few Dangers
Virtualizing Oracle applications on VMware offers great value in cost savings, greater flexibility, high availability, and a higher quality, lower cost life cycle, says Nathan Biggs, CEO of House of Brick, the leading consultant on virtualizing Oracle applications on VMware. But, they often hesitate, not for technical reasons but rather for political and emotional ones, ...
The Cloud is Driving Disruption and Opportunity
The very nature of enterprise data is changing, and the cloud is driving a wave of disruption through the technology industry, says Sujal Patel, founder of scalable, clustered storage system developer Isilon. As a result, he told Wikibon.org Co-Founder David Vellante and SiliconAngle Founder John Furrier on a SiliconAngle.tv webcast from EMCworld 2011, new opportunities ...
The Cloud and Consumerization are Creating a Computing Inflection Point
The cloud, virtualization, and the consumerization of computing and of people’s expectations are driving an inflection point at least as great as the PC Revolution of the 1980s, when computing power first got into the hands of end-users, says Mike Montalto, partner in the Technology Consulting Practice at Accenture. Speaking on a live SiliconAngle.TV Webcast ...
EMC Backup Group Focused on Making Things Simpler for Customers
Waves of technology have rocked the once-stable backup and recovery market, completely changing customer needs, says B.J. Jenkins, president of EMC Backup and Recovery. Speaking on SiliconAngle.TV from EMCWorld 2011 on Monday, May 9, Jenkins said that virtualization and big data in particular are creating complexity in the market forcing customers to adopt new backup ...
SiliconANGLE Exclusive: Abhi Mehta Announces Big Data Analysis “Factory” Builder Tresata
Former Bank of America executive, MIT Media Lab Executive in Residence, and big data pioneer Abhi Mehta announced the launch of Tresata, his latest venture, on SiliconAngle.TV Tuesday, February 2. Mehta cofounded Tresata to develop a tool set and framework for building “data factories” to extract the business value from big data databases. “We see ...
What is Big Data? Two EMC Experts Weigh In
The term “big data” has become all the rage in the storage, database, and analytics industries. But what exactly does it mean. At Monday’s EMC Corp. analyst briefing, which preceded EMC’s U.S. announcements on Tuesday and European announcements on Wednesday, Wikibon.org Co-Founder and CEO David Vellante asked two EMC experts that question on SiliconAngle.TV. EMC ...