The Emerging Technologies Division (ETD) at EMC is tasked with propelling EMC Corp. into the future by embracing innovations like open source and Cloud computing, new areas for the company. Randy Bias, vice president of Technology in the ETD, is helping the company shift to this new paradigm. “I think of Cloud computing as being ...

Logicalis Group has put IBM Power to the test around the world. “We’re a multinational corporation. We operate in 24 countries around the globe, and we take a services look and a services focus with our customers,” said Kirk Zaranti, vice president of Sales for Logicalis, while joining theCUBE during IBM Edge2015. This requires extremely ...

Two members of the Memphis Fire Department, division chief Gina Sweat and battalion chief Andrew Hart, sat down with theCUBE during IBM Edge2015 to talk about how data is improving EMS and rescue services. The two continually highlighted the importance of their mission and the citizens they serve — because when emergency response systems fail, ...

Brad Elmenhurst, director of Engineering Systems & BSC IT Site Leader at The Boeing Company, is enjoying the sun after his recent move from Seattle to South Carolina — but he’s staying busy growing Boeing’s IT community in his new location, as well as engineering systems around the company. “That really goes from product design ...

Doug Balog, the GM of Power Systems at IBM, is excited about where Power has come from — and where it’s going. “It’s been about a two year journey so far, to take Power from where it was and realign it to the marketplace,” he said in an interview with theCUBE during IBM Edge2015. “It’s ...

Alex Chen, director, Executive XIV at IBM, and Project Manager Oscar Lavina, who works at ITNow, agree on the benefits of Cloud storage: simplicity, efficiency and access to innovation. Chen outlined some of the advantages of the company’s service alongside Lavina in an interview with theCUBE during IBM Edge2015. “XIV as it exists today is ...

Matthew Sheard, Enterprise Solution architect at Mellanox Technologies, is thrilled with the progress made by the OpenPOWER Foundation over the past year. “Mellanox is really excited to be invited to be part of the OpenPOWER consortium,” he said in an interview with theCUBE during IBM Edge2015. “It’s a really exciting thing, the OpenPOWER Foundation. The ...

John Furrier, founder of SiliconANGLE, and Stu Miniman, senior analyst at Wikibon, were both optimistic about IBM’s new roadmap after the first day of IBM Edge 2015. “There’s the big mega trends out there, like Cloud, Big Data analytics and open source really transforming infrastructure,” Miniman said. “And you would think that a storage, mainframe ...

As the GM of Middleware at IBM, Marie Wieck has been to her share of conferences, but she’s very much enjoyed her first Edge event and the ideas being shared. “This is the first time we’ve brought together the whole systems view between the server, the storage and the software,” she said. “So I’m really ...

Terri Virnig, the VP of Power Ecosystem & Strategy at IBM, takes a long view of current industry trends, especially given the rapid growth of ISBs and open-source packages for the Company’s Power systems. In an interview with theCUBE, she explained its strategy. “Part of what we’ve been doing is, amidst all this growth and ...