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How one company uses data to democratize pre-school choice | #GITCatalyst
Consultants in Manhattan charge $15,000 to assist parents with the search for the perfect pre-school for their children, said Tejal Shah, founder and CEO of KidAdmit, Inc. Talking with Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during interview at the Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona, Shah described her ...
How to take the risk out of making a career pivot | #GITCatalyst
“Don’t let others define you” is the tip from Basecamp, LLC COO Mercedes De Luca as she discussed career pivots with Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team. What vectors do you move along? Speaking from the Girls in Tech Catalyst Conference 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona, De Luca gave three important vectors for taking ...
The importance of being ‘open’ | #GITCatalyst
While interviewing women around the world, Meg Withgott, cofounder and CTO of Panafold, Inc., always asks the question: “What advice would you give your younger self?” Open your awareness “People literally used the word open over and over again,” said Withgott in an interview with Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media ...
Secrets from the culture of innovation | #GITCatalyst
How can we make this something better? How can we be more than the sum of our parts? Shaking up corporate and startup perceptions and placing awareness on “we” rather than “I” is the focus of coaching and consulting company Opportu. Hilary Weber, founder and CEO of Opportu, shared her insights with Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), ...
Young users are driving the Verizon business model to be more efficient | #emcworld
Verizon’s younger customer base is driving the company to remain on the edge of new technology, and Larry Rau, director of technology at Verizon Labs, is excited about the influx of new devices and technology. Talking with John Walls and Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, Rau discussed the importance of ...
Project Horizon: EMC’s ‘Leap’ helps companies with digital transformation | #emcworld
The official name of EMC’s Project Horizon is Leap, according to Rohit Ghai, president of EMC’s Enterprise Content Division, during EMC World 2016 at the Sands Expo & Convention Center in Las Vegas. The user is the center of the Universe The quest for digitalization is making the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market hot again, and ...
Austin Eats! theCUBE team tries some open-source BBQ and tacos! | #OpenStack
Keeping it interesting from OpenStack Summit in Austin, Texas, were Stu Miniman (@stu), Brian Gracely (@bgracely) and John Walls, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, and special guest, theCUBE’s official Bar-B-Cuber, Sam Kahan. Taking a break from the OpenStack Summit’s “serious side,” in a relaxed and fun analysis of the Austin food and social scene, the ...
Using modern open source as a tactical weapon | #OpenStack
Gone are the days when the open-source community was a guerrilla organization of free-spirited independent experts working together, according to Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth. He sees a very different modern community, where tactical positioning by large organizations is the new standard behavior and open source is viewed as a weapon to be used to go faster ...
Overcoming the ‘Stockholm syndrome’ of storage | #OpenStack
The Lenovo Group, Ltd. believes the current business model for storage solutions is broken, with vendors playing a game with customers where if they don’t re-up they get hammered on maintenance costs. This leads to customers feeling like they’re held hostage to their current storage provider and makes the market ripe for disruption. In fact, according ...
The secret for OpenStack: Chip in today, reap rewards tomorrow | #OpenStack
What are the most interesting things about OpenStack? One group looks to its community to discover OpenStack’s points of interest, and concern. Every week the members of the OpenStack Product Working Group (Product WG) share collected feedback to create a multi-release roadmap of what is most interesting and important to users. “It’s about collaboration, understanding ...