Elizabeth Kays
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Scale-out Power and a flexible ecosystem | #IBMEdge
Stefanie Chiras, director of Scale-out Power Systems at IBM, told theCUBE during IBM Edgge2015 that big changes are underway. “As you can tell from the Power portfolio, we’ve made drastic changes since April of last year,” she said. “We’ve changed the strategy, we’ve fully embraced open, that’s been a big part of the shift in ...
Managing bumpy traffic at Wal-mart | #IBMEdge
Randy Frerking, the Enterprise Technical Expert for Wal-mart Stores, Inc., oversees a vast infrastructure that handles an incredible amount of traffic — traffic that peaks and troughs, sometimes dramatically, at the whims of shoppers everywhere. In an interview with theCUBE during IBM Edge2015, Frerking put his experience into words. “I hired into Wal-mart back in ...
Day 3 wrap-up: Challenges and opportunities for EMC | #emcworld
After three days of innovation, new releases and even motorcycles, John Furrier, founder of Silicon Angle, and Dave Vellante, chief analyst at Wikibon, wrapped up their experiences at EMC World 2015 with some predictions for the future. Vellante summed up his view. “EMC’s sort of a bit of an enigma in a way to me, ...
Neuroscience and women in tech | #emcworld
Stella Low and Amy Posey made a strong team in their EMC World 2015 interview with theCUBE about women in tech. As VP of Global Communications at EMC, Low has a vested interest in improving the way women are integrated into the company. And Posey brought extensive research to bear as a “neurofacilitator” for Peak ...
Innovating, problem-solving and promoting women in tech | #emcworld
Fresh off the heels of winning the Capgemini global innovation award, Sheryl Chamberlain, VP of Global Partner Executive of Capgemini Global Channels & Partners, spoke with Jeff Frick of theCUBE about their major projects. “What Capgemini has been doing over the last couple of years is working with Pivotal and EMC on something called business ...
Meeting the challenge of scale with new tools and automation | #emcworld
In pursuit of its mission to provide “fanatical customer service,” Rackspace, Inc. is helping customers innovate and find the best solutions for its storage and data management needs by partnering with companies like EMC, Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. and many others. Chris Wetzel, storage director for Rackspace, said in an interview with theCUBE during EMC ...
Using converged infrastructure to optimize cars for Formula 1 | #emcworld
One of the most unique use-cases of EMC systems appeared on theCUBE during EMC World 2015 via Antony Smith, the Converged Infrastructure specialist for the Lotus F1 Team. It turns out that cars aren’t the only things being fine-tuned for success on the track; their data analysis systems are a key part of the team’s ...
VCE: Freeing up IT resources and promoting growth | #emcworld
At The Vollrath Company, a kitchen supplies manufacturing company, John Sharp has his hands full as the manager of IT. When he first started work, the IT staff was so busy putting out fires that they rarely had time to do proper maintenance — or think about how they could develop solutions to improve the ...
Reference architecture and the cure for the “relevance gap” | #emcworld
Jason Nolet, SVP of Data Center Switching, Routing and Analytics at Brocade, is a “frequent flier” on theCUBE and had a lot to say about the future of converged infrastructure during EMC World 2015. “A lot of customers are opting for that middle ground of reference architectures,” he said. “And that is between a single ...
Open-source and EMC (code) | #emcworld
EMC’s commitment to open-source is changing the way the company does business — but it can be hard for such a large, established company to become accepted in that space. Brian Gracely, senior director of EMC {code}, is helping the company make that transition. While talking with theCUBE during EMC World 2015, Gracely laid out ...