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Weekly Security Review: Anonymous, Snowden Strike Again
The cybersecurity landscape changes with every new leak and attack. This week Anonymous exposed members of the notorious Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) after the latter defaced Marines.com, and AlienVault raised new funding for its crowd-powered security platform. In related news, whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA has inserted backdoors into mainstream encryption solutions. The ...
Internet of Things Review: Microsoft Buys Nokia, Google Unleashes Android 5
It’s been an eventful week for the Internet of Things. Ubitus partnered with LG to launch its cloud gaming platform in the U.S, GameBrain announced a new development environment for mobile game creators, and Microsoft rattled the market by acquiring Nokia. Google also stirred some buzz after Sundar Pichai, the head of Android and Chrome ...
The SiliconANGLE on VMware’s Push into the Software-Defined Data Center
SiliconANGLE theCube hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante opened the tenth annual VMworld conference with an in-depth discussion about VMware, the state of IT and the rise of the software-defined data center. John highlights that recent executive shake ups such as the departure of Steve Ballmer from Microsoft underscore the massive transformation that the tech ...
Avnet’s Brian Mitchell Talks FlexPod: The Future of Converged Infrastucture
Brian Mitchell of Avnet stopped by theCube during the recent NetApp MVP Event to discuss his company’s role in the storage vendor’s ecosystem. Avnet is one of the world’s largest resellers of IT solutions and hardware components. It also claims to be the number one distributor of FlexPod, a converged infrastructure reference architecture series that ...
VMware Refreshes Desktop Virtualization Lineup with New Releases
VMware may be pushing into the software-defined data center with new solutions for virtualizing networks and storage arrays, but that doesn’t mean its abandoning its roots. The company just unleashed the latest version of its Workstation desktop virtualization software, along with new releases of Fusion 6 and Fusion 6 Professional. Workstation is VMware’s enterprise desktop ...
Opus Interactive Bigwigs Discuss the Tools of the Trade #VMworld
Eric Hulbert and Brady Wilson, the CEO and CTO of Opus Interactive, discussed how solutions from VMware and HP help their company drive value for clients in a recent interview on SiliconANGLE’s theCube. Opus Interactive was founded in 1994 as an application development and creative design studio. The firm had shifted its focus to managed ...
Williams & Fudge Data Center Director Discusses Virtualization Use Case #VMworld
Phillip Reynolds, the Data Center Director for collection agency William & Fudge, stopped by theCube during VMworld 2013 to discuss how EMC and VMware are fueling his company’s growth. William & Fudge employs 400 staffers, up from 160 four years ago. Reynolds’ main responsibility is addressing the needs of his IT’s organizations rapidly growing user base ...
Secure24’s Sean Donaldson Discusses The Service Provider #VMworld
Secure24 is a Michigan-based cloud provider that offers regulatory compliant hosting for mission critical applications. Sean Donaldson, the company’s chief architect, discussed his company and the cloud ecosystem in an interview on theCube at VMworld 2013. The term cloud computing means different things for different people. For Secure24’s customers, it means a secure environment that combines ...
NetApp Global Alliances Head on the Value of Software Partnerships #VMworld
NetApp and VMware are glued at the hip, according to Maria Olson, the vice president of global alliances for the storage vendor. The executive stopped by theCube during the recently concluded VMworld 2013 conference to share her take on the rapidly changing IT landscape. Olson tells theCube hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante that cloud ...
OpenStack Bigwigs On VMware and Vendor Lock-In #VMworld
Piston Cloud founding CTO Josh McKenty and Joe Arnold, the CEO of Swiftstack, hopped into theCube at VMworld 2013 to share their insights into the OpenStack ecosystem. McKenty says that VMware and Microsoft are competing over client-server workloads, which he perceives as the virtualized equivalents of legacy mainframes. Amazon and OpenStack on the other hand ...