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Virident’s post-merger strategy : Flash storage + software | #oow13
Ken Grohe, Virident’s vice president of worldwide customer operations, returned to theCUBE at Oracle OpenWorld 2013 to discuss the latest developments from his company and the use cases that are driving flash adoption in the enterprise. In September, hard drive maker Western Digital announced that Virident was merging with its HGST subsidiary in a $685 ...
Symantec’s cloud locker falls victim to mobile revolution
Faltering demand for personal computers has led Symantec to shut down its Backup Exec.cloud service, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The company is pulling the plug on the cloud locker in an effort to slim down and refocus on the rapidly growing mobile market, the new frontier for endpoint security and data protection. Backup Exec.cloud is ...
Dell unenthusiastic about HP Way Now, encourages remote working
Following in the footsteps of Yahoo! boss Marisa Mayer, Meg Whitman last month revised Hewlett-Packard’s historically liberal remote working policies as part of a new turnaround strategy dubbed HP Way Now. The framework necessitates “all hands on deck,” according to an internal memo, which means that employees are now required to work from the office. ...
Analysis: Oracle too late to the In-Memory party? | #ooc13
Wikibon’s Dave Vellante, Jeff Kelly and Stu Miniman gathered in theCUBE at Oracle OpenWorld 2013 for an in-depth discussion of the company’s place in the rapidly shifting enterprise tech landscape. The focal point of the event was Oracle’s new Database In-Memory Option, a solution that Kelly describes as a unified system for processing analytical and ...
The analyst angle on IBM and Big Data | #IBMIoD
Judith Hurwitz, the president and CEO of market research firm Hurwitz and Associates, stopped by SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at the recent IBM Information on Demand 2013 summit in Las Vegas to share her perspective on Big Blue’s analytics strategy. IBM is expanding in all directions, with hardware and software solutions for ingesting, processing and visualizing Big ...
EMC reshuffles storage divisions to sharpen innovation focus
EMC is combining the development teams behind the VMAX line of high-end block storage systems and the VNX series unified arrays into a single Enterprise Storage Division. The group will be headed by Brian Gallagher. David Goulden, the president and chief operating system of EMC, stressed in a blog post that the move involves “no ...
IBM continues patent spree with Cloud data integration technique
IBM earned a record 6,478 U.S. patents in 2012, marking the 20th straight year that it racked up more innovations than any other company. Big Blue is bent on extending this streak for another year, and is just as keen on gaining a Big Data foothold in the cloud. Inching ever closer to its goals, ...
Superior Group CIO talks social enterprise and reporting | #IBMIoD
Appearing on theCUBE at IBM’s recent Information on Demand 2013 summit in Las Vegas, Tom DeClerck, an industry veteran with over 15 years of experience in leading IT projects, got down to the nitty-gritty of managing infrastructure for a midsize company. DeClerck is the CIO of Superior Group, a privately-held staffing agency based in Buffalo, ...
IBM fellow on bad data and analytics | #IBMIoD
Jeff Jonas, an IBM Fellow and the chief scientist of Big Blue’s Entity Analytics Group, dropped by theCUBE at Information on Demand 2013 to share his unique perspective on Big Data variety and the importance of errors in delivering better insights. Kicking off the discussion, Jonas recalls working with a European bank that sought to ...
Ray Wang on Big Blue’s Battle with AWS | #IBMIoD
The largest legal battle in the history of the cloud ended this June when a federal court dismissed a complaint by IBM against the CIA’s decision to award a $600 million IT infrastructure contract to Amazon. The ruling marked a major victory for AWS, but the deal pales in comparison to what’s at stake now: ...