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Nirvanix Appoints Chief Strategy Officer as New CEO
Cloud startup Nirvanix appointed Dru Borden as its new chief executive officer, six months after he took on the role of the company’s chief strategy officer. He’s replacing outgoing CEO Scott Genereux, who apparently got an offer from Oracle he couldn’t refuse. Genereux joined Nirvanix from QLogic, where he served as senior vice president of worldwide sales. ...
Softcat’s Sam Routledge Gives the Service Provider Some Cloud Perspective
Sam Routledge, the solutions director for a UK-based IT solutions provider called Softcat, sat down with SiliconAngle founder John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante at HP Discover 2012 to talk cloud, services and everything in between (full video below). Routledge pegs his company as a reseller turned service provider that hasn’t forgotten its roots. Softcat’s services ...
EMC, VMware Spinning Off 1.4K Workers to Create New Application Venture
EMC and VMware are funneling the bulk of their cloud development and Big Data assets into Pivotal Initiative, a new joint venture that will be led by Paul Maritz, VMware’s former CEO and current head of strategy. Communications VP Terry Anderson posted the update yesterday on the company’s official blog. She specified the second quarter ...
HP Talks Automation and DevOps @ Discover 2012
Among the guests that stopped by theCube at this week’s HP Discover was Matthew Morgan, the executive in charge of product marketing for Hewlett-Packard’s software business. He took the opportunity to talk about his company’s latest product updates, DevOps, and how operations should be done in the era of cloud and big data (full interview ...
IT Resources On-Demand Moves Beyond Storage + Compute
Business intelligence firm Jaspersoft is making its reporting and analytics technology available through the VMware Cloud Applications Marketplace. What this means is that customers can deploy Jaspersoft’s software to their public, private or hybrid cloud environment using the VMware vFabric Application Director interface. Shahar Erez, director of VMware’s Application Management Products group, had a couple ...
FalconStor’s New Deal Hopes to Streamline International Growth
dataStor has signed up to be FalconStor’s sole distributor in the Australia and New Zealand, according to the local channel publication. FalconStor made a name for itself by making fast backup appliances for modern environments, while dataStor is a big name Australian VAR that supports a large ecosystem of resellers in the region. These vendors ...
HP CEO Stays True to Analytics Vision: “100% Committed to Autonomy’s technologies”
Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman has found herself the center of the recent Autonomy controversy: she’s the one who disclosed the $8.8 billion write down on the deal at her company’s last earnings call, and she’s leading the charge against Autonomy’s former management. But for Whitman, it’s nothing personal – and she still has a lot ...
HP Discover Day 1 Recap: Big Data + Software-Led Infrastructure [VIDEO]
SiliconANGLE CEO John Furrier and Wikibon principal contributor Dave Vellante HP Discover have spent all day interviewing industry insiders at HP 2012 in Frankfurt, Germany. They wrapped up Day 1 with a recap session about storage (full video below), analytics and everything else HP has been working on. Furrier starts off by providing some background ...
Sponsored Stories Cost Facebook $20M, But No Word on Revenue
Facebook is aggressively pursuing new growth opportunities to boost its revenue, and convince investors that it has the capabilities to monetize over 800 million active users worldwide. One of the company’s attempts is Sponsored Stories, a system that aims to make advertisements more relevant to users by associating them with their contacts. The feature was ...
Another Ego Boost for QLogic: Channel Strategy is Working
QLogic received quote the ego boost from Demartek, an independent research firm that found its 8Gb and 16Gb Fibre Channel offerings outperform that of competitors by a great margin. The results of the recent TPC-H benchmark study were published in the company’s December 2012 Fibre Channel HBA Evaluation report. The report found that QLogic FlexSuite 2600 Series ...