Elizabeth Kays

Elizabeth is a beat writer for SiliconANGLE's roving news desk team theCUBE. She covers theCUBE events worldwide, spanning expert commentary on the hottest trends in IT. Got news? Tweet it to @siliconangle.

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Reorganizing HP to capture the market | #HPDiscover

Alain Andreoli, SVP and GM of HP’s Global Servers Business Unit, was enthusiastic about the recent reorganization of HP during a conversation with theCUBE at HP Discover 2015 — but he’s not planning to slow down anytime soon. “We should not rest on our laurels,” he said. “The servers business has been doing well for ...

HP Storage and the shift to flash | #HPDiscover

Manish Goel, the SVP and GM of HP Storage, believes the industry is undergoing a colossal shift. In an interview with theCUBE at HP Discover 2015, he talked about how storage has changed. “Storage used to be simple,” he said. “Do you want SAN? Or do you want NAS? How many tiers of SAN do ...

Simplifying hybrid Cloud deployment with HP | #HPDiscover

As the SVP and GM of Technology Support Services for the HP Enterprise Group, Scott Weller has his ear to the ground on what customers are looking for in their technology. “I think one of the things that gets lost sometimes is that companies don’t so much transition from one product to the other or ...

HP believes it’s a hybrid world | #HPDiscover

The move to hybrid infrastructure is exciting to Hewlett-Packard Co., according to Bobby Patrick, CMO at HP Cloud, who talked with theCUBE during HP Discover 2015. “It’s a hybrid world. It’s a distributed world,” he said. “It’s a world where in some cases multiple Clouds operate in a unique way, and they have proprietary or ...

Cisco and Red Hat: CRUSHing innovation | #openstack

Ranga Rangachari, VP & GM of Red Hat, Inc., and Duane Decapite, the Director of OpenStack Product Management at Cisco Systems, Inc., have established a unique partnership between their respective companies under the OpenStack banner, based on the current trajectory of their shared technology. According to Rangachari in an interview with theCUBE during the OpenStack ...

The Neutron/OpenDaylight integration story | #openstack

David Meyer, SP CTO and chief scientist at Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., and Tom Nadeau, a distinguished engineer at Brocade, met with theCUBE during the OpenStack Summit to talk about the state of networking in OpenStack, given that the initial release of Neutron was, unfortunately, not as stable as consumers hoped. Meyer offered his explanation. ...

Is OpenStack ready for the mainstream? | #openstack

As day one of OpenStack ended, Stu Miniman, senior analyst at Wikibon and theCUBE coshost, wasn’t sure his concerns about the foundation had been completely alleviated. In theCUBE’s wrap-up, Miniman told John Furrier, founder of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE cohost, that he didn’t think OpenStack was ready to cross the chasm into the mainstream just yet. ...

Finding where hardware ends and software begins | #IBMEdge

Judith Hurwitz, president of Hurwitz & Associates, LLC and a long-time industry analyst, doesn’t usually focus on hardware — but IBM Edge has become much more than a hardware show. “What’s interesting to me,” Hurwitz told theCUBE, “is the bringing together of the underlying capabilities of the hardware, which has always been very strong, very ...

Open questions on OpenStack | #openstack

At the kickoff for the OpenStack Summit 2015, John Furrier, founder of SiliconANGLE, and Stu Miniman, senior analyst at Wikibon, discussed on theCUBE the key opportunities and challenges facing the OpenStack Foundation and its partners. According to Miniman, over the five years they’ve been watching OpenStack, some of their original questions have yet to be ...

Community support is the key to OpenStack’s success | #openstack

Jonathan Bryce, executive director of the OpenStack Foundation, says great progress has been made toward bringing OpenStack into the mainstream. In an interview with theCUBE, he explained some of those advances. “If you go back a couple of years, you definitely had to have engineers to do a serious OpenStack deployment,” he explained. “But the ...