A successful IT solution requires knowing exactly what customers want and need. Michael Bradburn, technical solutions architect of Oracle Solutions at Cisco Systems, Inc., and John McAbel, senior product manager of Oracle Solutions at Cisco, joined Brian Gracely, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Oracle OpenWorld 2015 to talk about Cisco’s approach to designing solutions. “From ...

Atlanta, Georgia, has a lot going for it – Fortune 500 companies, major sports teams and the largest airport in the world. Dekalb County, a core part of the Atlanta community, plays a big role in city planning. John Matelski, CIO and director of IT for DeKalb County in Georgia, joined Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely, cohosts of theCUBE, ...

A robust private cloud is a great way for companies to get all the innovations of cloud technology while satisfying security and compliance requirements. Praveen Asthana, senior VP of converged infrastructure project management at Oracle, and Mohamad Afshar, VP of product management at Oracle, talked with John Furrier and Dave Vellante, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media ...

Nobody likes being tracked, but the power of Big Data depends on gathering knowledge about user behavior and purchasing choices. Kaliya Hamlin, founder of She’s Geeky, offered several models at Grace Hopper 2015 that could make this gathering of data more ethical. In an interview with theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the Grace ...

With the addition of numerous peer-to-peer methods of communication during the past 10 years, the network effects of cloud-enabled technologies have compounded at unimaginable rates, creating a whole new breed of tech employee. Mick Slattery, president of North America at Avanade, Inc., and Stella Goulet, the company’s chief marketing officer, stopped by to talk with John ...

With Intel’s recent move to promote better hiring practices, many tech companies have begun to take a harder look at issues of diversity in the workplace. At the VMwomen Panel, Renee Zaugg, VP of IT Infrastructure and Application Development at Aetna, Inc., spoke to a packed audience of both men and women about how to ...

Embedded analytics has become Pentaho Corp.’s cornerstone offering at all levels of the market. Gretchen Moran, director of engineering services at Pentaho, a Hitachi Data Systems company, joined Dave Vellante and George Gilbert, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during PentahoWorld 2015 to talk about how open source enabled the company’s success. But what makes ...

Ten years ago when Pentaho Corp. was founded, Big Data was barely a gleam in the tech world’s eye. Chuck Yarbrough, director of Big Data, product marketing of Pentaho, joined Dave Vellante and George Gilbert, cohosts from theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to talk about those early days. As Big Data loomed on the ...

Dell, Inc.’s record-breaking $67B buyout of EMC has created the biggest privately owned tech company in the world. But is it a winning deal? Commentators from SiliconANGLE, Wikibon and the tech community at large joined a Dell-EMC CrowdChat to discuss the implications. Talking points According to John Furrier, founder and CEO of SiliconANGLE, the deal signals ...

At VMworld 2015, the Geek Whisperers (John Troyer, Amy Lewis, and Matt Brender) took over a segment of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to interview Scott Lowe, a blogger and author who works at VMware Inc. as an Engineering Architect, about his career in IT. Lewis asked Lowe about the importance of selecting a role ...