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Nuance Exec Loves Hadoop: Discusses Data Science Behind Voice Recognition
Frederic Van Haren is the senior director of research for Nuance Communications, a technology provider that specializes in image recognition and speech technology. His company makes extensive use of HP solutions to power its 10-petabyte storage environment, a case study that he discussed during a session with John Furrier and Dave Vellante at HP Discover ...
HP Discover Day 2 Recap: HP Still Figuring Out Its Cloud Strategy
John Furrier and Dave Vellante recapped the second day of HP Discover 2012, held this week in Frankfurt, Germany, in their latest Cube session (full video below). Day one was all about cloud, security and big data, and day two was not all that different. But while the emphasis on cloud remained, Hewlett-Packard also launched new ...
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 ...