Many of the presentations at 2015’s VMworld took the long view, looking to the future rather than to the immediate present. Robin Matlock, CMO of VMware Inc., said this was by design. The company wants to address the rapid shifts in techs, especially the rise of DevOps. Matlock appeared on theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media ...

Community is changing the face of the tech industry as open-source projects continue to grow and even established companies have learned to rely on developer communities for growth. Now, vBrownBag, a series of online webinars, is helping developers and engineers build better solutions. Alastair Cooke, trainer, writer and consultant, and Cody Bunch, private cloud/virtualization architect, VMware vExpert, ...

Agility may be the key to succeeding in today’s tech market, but Howie Xu, previously of Cisco Systems, Inc. and VMware, Inc., and now an executive in residence at Greylock Partners, believes resilience will be the key to long-term success. Curing VMworld 2015, Xu joined John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, and ...

The intersection of storage and compute is taking over the data center world. Ron Nash, CEO of Pivot3, Inc., talked with Wikibon Cloud Computing Analyst Brian Gracely, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, at VMworld 2015 about the trends in hyperconverged data center architecture. “It is a trend that is pervasive, and it is ...

The data analytics arms race continues to escalate, with major players battling to better predict what consumers want — sometimes before they even know themselves. The newest weapons in analytics arsenals are “Systems of Intelligence,” the natural evolution of traditional “Systems of Record” and more modern “Systems of Engagement.” But it can be tough to ...

Ravello Systems, Ltd. was founded in early 2011 with the sole purpose of changing the way companies consume the public Cloud. “We are coming from a very rich virtualization background, networking background, and some storage,” according to Benny Schnaider, cofounder, chairman and president of Ravello Systems, Ltd., who spoke with Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely of theCUBE, ...

As a four-year-old company, PLUMgrid, Inc. has big dreams of bringing OpenStack networking into the mainstream. “We provide networking in software. If you’ve heard of overlay networking constructs where you do multi-host networking right on a Linux kernel itself, that’s what we do,” Awais Nemat, PLUMgrid’s CEO, told theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s production team, at OpenStack Summit ...

The Cloud is changing the way companies and employees operate. Jerome Lecat, CEO of Scality, Inc., told theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s production team, at OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2015 that it’s important for companies to collaborate during this transition. “We believe that a few years from now, five to 10 years from now, the people running infrastructure will run ...

At the OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2015, disruption and big ideas were the norm, and no one exemplified that ethos more than Sam Greenblatt, a highly versatile tech industry executive. Having played a key role at companies like Dell, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., Greenblatt now freelances with a variety of groups on the cutting edge of ...

The Cloud is enabling more than just off-site storage. According to Mark Smith, CEO and chief research officer at Ventana Research, it’s facilitating a revolution in the departmental politics of businesses around the globe. In an interview during Informatica World 2015, he told theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s Media production team, that as business environments shift, the politics of ...