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Greenplum’s Vision Alive and Well Inside EMC
Greenplum, now EMC’s Data Computing Division, was founded on a vision of “bringing the processing closer to the data and closer to the people,” says the division’s VP of marketing, Richard Snee. In [http://www.siliconangle.tv/video/big-data-big-visions-richard-snee-greenplum-hadoop-and-enterprise-data-cloud an interview] on SiliconAngle.TV from Oracle OpenWorld 2010, he assured Wikibon.org co-founder and CEO David Vellante and SiliconAngle founder John Furrier ...
HDS Outpaces the competition, Provides Technology Customers Want
Thanks to a consistent research effort, effective synergies with other divisions of Hitachi in Japan as well as the United States, and a vision built on customer needs, Hitachi Data Systems is ahead of its competition in bringing important technologies that customers want to market. That is the message HDS CEO Jack Domme delivered in ...
HDS to Meet Needs with an Affordable, Highly Efficient Platform
The vision and product development at Hitachi Data Systems is driven by what its customers tell it they need, rather than an internal soul-searching, Robert Bassilio, VP of storage management at HDS. Furthermore, he told Wikibon CEO David Vellante and SiliconAngle CEO John Furrier in a live interview on SiliconAngle.tv from the U.S. announcement, everything ...
Hitachi Data Systems Vision of Virtualized Data and Infrastructure
Hitachi Data Systems today announced a unique vision of virtualized data running on virtualized infrastructure along with its new integrated virtual storage platform, a hardware/software combination designed to make this vision a reality for very high-end, mission-critical environments. Making the announcement, HDS CEO Jack Domme outlined the major challenges of the new environment in which ...
Executing on a More Unified, One-Company Strategy
Hewlett-Packard is now visibly unifying across its Large Enterprise Division, with the often highly independent storage and server units and HP Labs working more closely together to bring unified products to market. The process of pulling these often highly independent divisions within a company never known for its unity of direction together has taken several ...
HP: Virtualization is Changing the Game on Multiple Levels
Virtualization started in the data center as a way to boost utilization and cut costs dramatically, cutting the number of boxes needed to support operations. Early case histories provided dramatic stories of companies able to add years of live to their data centers and in some cases cut the number of data centers they needed ...
The Future of Big IT Lies within a Hybrid of Cloud and Localized Technologies
Large applications like ERP systems in enterprise-class organizations are not easily turned into SaaS-type cloud services, despite the huge pressure to move systems off-premise, says Dell Managing Director for Services Sukumar Narayanan. Although his present brief is running a large IT services organization, Mr. Narayanan has a depth of experience and knowledge in software and, ...
Generosa Litton: Oracle Wants to be the Next IBM
“I was really surprised when Oracle bought Sun,” says NetApp Senior Manager Generosa Litton in an interview with Wikibon founder David Vellante on a SiliconAngle.tv webcast from OracleWorld 2010 (http://www.siliconangle.tv/video/changes-oracle-netapp-generosa-litton-peter-schay). “I really expected Oracle to remain a pure software company. So now that they are into hardware as well, my crystal ball tells me they ...
Dell Moves from an Infrastructure to a Solutions Provider
As Dell moves from an infrastructure and mainly a hardware company to a full solutions provider, competing with the likes of IBM, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard, one of its largest differentiators is its open architecture stack, says Sukumar Narayanan, services director for Dell. While other competitors are selling a proprietary hardware/software stack that provides a single ...
Providing Burst Capabilities to Large Enterprises and Important Part of Switch Strategy
In this third and last in a series of pieces taken from an Wikibon CEO David Vellante's interview with Switch Executive VP Jason Mendenhall, they discuss how Switch works with big IT shops to provide what they need in a mixed public/private cloud environment.