Thanks to his background as an analyst, Matt Oostveen, the CTO of VCE Company, LLC’s Asia-Pacific region, has a lot of insight regarding the state of convergent structure technology. In an interview with theCUBE during EMC World 2015, he pointed out, “If we have a look at some of the intersecting trends at play — ...

At Protection 1 Security Solutions, the nation’s largest full-service security company, IT does more than develop apps and keep the systems running. According to Morgan Harris, director of Enterprise Solutions, “As an alarm monitoring company, we are dedicated to the customer, and we can’t stop processing information … This not only impacts a business, this ...

Praveen Akkiraju, CEO of VCE Company, LLC, is very optimistic about his company’s future under the EMC umbrella. After being acquired in October 2014, Akkiraju said that life isn’t very different. “I think what EMC has allowed us to do is, they have left us alone in a lot of ways,” he told theCUBE during ...

As the third-largest auction house in the world, Heritage Auctions is a fascinating use-case for EMC’s storage and data management systems. With high-end auction items ranging from artifacts from the moon landings to T-Rex skeletons and transactions in the hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars, reliable IT services are an absolute must. With ...

With over 50,000 employees worldwide, Skilled Engineering, an Australian labor, hiring and recruitment company, is the perfect use-case for EMC Corp.’s systems. According to Pavel Rogik, the company’s senior technical analyst, running such a vast enterprise is hardly trivial. But with only six people on his IT infrastructure team, he’s responsible for everything from servers ...

CJ Desai, President of EMC Corp.’s Emerging Technology Division (ETD), and Rob Bearden, CEO of Hortonworks Inc., believe that Hadoop analytics and Isilon storage are a match made in heaven. Desai puts it this way: “The most important thing that customers like is, you don’t have to now create another standalone infrastructure. [They say] ‘I ...

After spending 10 years at Oracle Corp., Sam Lucido is the perfect person to bridge the gap between databases and storage in his new role as senior manager of Database Solutions Technical Marketing at EMC Corp. Fortunately, the two companies have a solid working relationship — a necessity given their 80,000+ shared customers. But this ...

After a day of keynotes and interviews at EMC World 2015, John Furrier and Dave Vellante of theCUBE forecasted what they see in the future of the data management space in their kickoff to Day 2’s events. Furrier, founder of SiliconANGLE, thinks EMC Corp. is headed in the right direction. “The big thing that I ...

Stephen Manley, CTO of the Core Technologies group at EMC Corp., is dedicated to helping customers simplify workloads and reduce costs wherever possible. A few years ago, when storage technology shifted from tapes to disks, it simplified a lot of processes in the backup space. Today, according to Manley in an interview with theCUBE during ...

Cloudera, Inc. revealed this past February that it was the second Open Source company in history to crack $100 million in revenues. And according to Mike Olson, Cloudera’s chief strategy officer, the company is thrilled with it growth. “I’m very pleased and confident in our strategy and execution,” he said in an interview with theCUBE ...