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Nutanix Hits $80M Run Rate in Six Quarters
Nutanix, a San Jose-based provider of software-defined storage appliances, has achieved an annualized run rate of over $80 million. The company boasts of reaching this milestone a mere six quarters after shipping its first box in late 2011. Nutanix’s flagship Virtual Computing Platform is a converged infrastructure solution that leverages hyperscale technologies pioneered by Facebook ...
EMC’s Transformation: A Quest to Higher Margins and a Stronger Portfolio
EMC is transforming its business in the wake of changing market dynamics and mounting pressure from Amazon and OpenStack. CEO Joe Tucci doesn’t want any inefficiencies getting in the way of his growth plans. This week the storage behemoth disclosed that it will be firing 1,004 workers across its Information Storage, RSA Information Security and ...
SAP Brings HANA to the Cloud, Scales Value with Cost
SAP has announced that it will offer a subscription-based version of HANA to help customers sidestep around the complexity associated with on-premise deployments of its speedy in-memory database. This new hosted edition aims to kill two birds with one stone by addressing time-to-value and total cost of ownership. According to the company, SAP HANA Enterprise ...
EMC World Day 2 : EMC’s Software-Led Goals Garner Industry Responses, Spark Open Source Debate
TheCube hosts John Furrier, Dave Vellante and Winston Edmonds wrapped up Day 2 EMC World 2013 by sharing their perspectives on the latest news from the Las Vegas conference. Vellante kicks off the session by emphasizing the correlation between the software-defined trend and Big Data. He views Pivotal Labs, a joint venture between EMC and ...
Facebook’s iPhone App Can Double Your Data Costs : Twitter’s Cheep-Cheaper
Nearly half of those who visit social media sites do so from their phones, and 40 percent of mobile users have at least one social networking app installed. It almost goes without saying that Facebook is the single most popular free app on both Android and iOS, which is no small feat. These statistics reflect ...
Los Alamos National Lab Leverages Quantum-encrypted Network
The Los Alamos National Lab has been using a quantum-encrypted network to communicate sensitive information for the last two and a half years, according to the latest reports. The news item is that the laboratory’s researchers have come up with a workaround for one of the biggest challenges in this field: rerouting traffic without compromising ...
#EMCworld Day 1 Recap : ViPR’s Software-Led Strategy to Beat AWS
TheCUBE is attending its fourth EMC World this week to bring you the latest news and analysis from the storage vendor’s annual three-day event in Las Vegas. SiliconANGLE founding CEO John Furrier and Wikibon chief analyst Dave Vellante wrapped up a long day of broadcasting yesterday with a recap on the main highlights of Day ...
Plastic Guns Are Coming to a 3D Printer Near You
An emerging technology known as 3D printing is hailed by some as the future of manufacturing. Pundits believe that when 3D printers become cheap enough for the average household, consumers may stop frequenting shops for certain goods. Instead, they predict that we’ll simply download blueprints for our sci-fi printers and ‘print’ products in the convenience ...
The Man behind SAP Week on the Event, Cloud Trends + AWS
Andy Sitison, the Global Director of Application Sales for EMC, spoke with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante during the recent SAP Week gathering at the company’s Executive Briefing Center (EBC) in Hopkinton, MA. Sitison is the driving force behind the event. He boasts that this year’s SAP Week was the biggest to date, and the single largest ...
How Software Reinvented Logistics for TTX
Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante caught up with Bruce Schinelli, the chief information officer of railcar giant TTX, at EMC’s recent SAP Week conference in Hopkinton, MA. The executive shared a few details about his company, its IT infrastructure, and the technologies it is leveraging to streamline operations. Schinelli starts the interview by ...