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VMware’s Tod Neilsen Drop by theCube at VMworld 2011
Tod Neilsen, former COO and now head of application development at VMware, sat down at theCube for the third time now with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. Nielsen detailed that he’s now responsible for Cloud Foundry, the company’s open-source PaaS, and vFabric. He noted that the former played a big part in the whole kick ...
Tintri’s Kieran Harty on a Different Path than 3PAR
Kieran Harty, co-founder and chief executive of Tintri, stopped by theCube during VMworld 2011. He talked about Tintri’s offering, and his outlook for the company. Harty explained that Tintri developed a new type of NAS device; an appliance specifically designed for virtualized environments. The product only started shipping in April, and is based on flash ...
Microsoft Azure Toolkit for Android Ramps Mobile Competition
Software giant Microsoft has become invested in both the PaaS and mobile markets, and Azure is proving to be a very handy tool bolstering the company’s market share on both ends. Microsoft took an interesting approach by offering Azure toolkits for Windows Phone 7’s two main competitors (alongside the platform itself): iOS, and now Android. ...
Beyond Storage Virtualization: the Future of the Datacenter
TheCube Beyond Storage Virtualization Spotlight at VMWorld 2011, part 4 of today’s session, included Wikibon’s Dave Vellante as the moderator, along with Wikibon CTO and Senior Analyst David Floyer, Hewlett-Packard’s Marc Farley and Steve Kenniston of IBM (full video below–see parts 1-2 here, and part 3 here). David kicked off the discussion by saying that the ...
Storage Optimization Spotlight: Long Term Benefits of Compression
Steve Kenniston of IBM sat down in theCube for the third segment of the Storage Optimization Spotlight at VMWorld 2011 (see parts 1 and 2 here). Kenniston is in charge of the IBM Real-Time Appliance for NAS, and real-time compression was the topic (full video below). “By us doing what I call compression offload, in ...
Simplified Cloud Management with ScaleXtreme’s New Release
, a maker of cloud management software announced two new cloud offerings, ScaleXtreme Xpress and ScaleXtreme Xpert. This debut blends in into the company’s efforts to increase market awareness to its products, and there’s an emphasis on simplicity and ease of use. “With the general availability of the final product editions, all customers now have ...
Cisco VP Talks Next Gen Mobility Needs for Virtual Apps
Soni Jiadani, senior vice president at Cisco stopped by theCube at VMware 2011 going on right now to discuss her company, and the IT industry as a whole (full video below). First of all, she started out by mentioning Cisco’s announcements from the conference. The networking giant’s USC platform won the VMware benchmark for the ...
Surf’s Up! Google and OpenDNS Kick off the Global Internet Speedup
The Global Internet Speedup is a new initiative that just surfaced with one goal in mind: to make load times faster for web users around the world. The concept is pretty simple, and companies such as Google, Bitgravity, CDNetworks, DNS.com, and Edgecast have already signed up. Here’s what the project is tackling: “DNS is like ...
NetApp CEO Visits theCube at VMWorld 2011
Tom Georgens, chief executive of NetApp, sat down at theCube at VMWorld 2011 with John Furrier and Dave Vellante. He started talking about his company’s fiscal performance–how this year segments such as the public sector and financial services took a hit–but growth remained steady over the board compared to last year’s 30 percent YoY growth. The ...
Spotlight VMworld Panel: How the Cloud Affects Backup
Dave Vellante held a backup panel at VMworld 2011 with three industry insiders, Brad Maltz, CTO at ICI Drew Kramer, VP of technical operations for VMware; and Jerome Wendt, founder and lead analyst at DCIG (video below). They discussed how the cloud is affecting backup, and driving this industry to keep up with the current ...