The EMC Federation of businesses recently acquired Virtustream, Inc., a cloud software and services company that caters to enterprise companies. With the acquisition, EMC customers have a single source for hybrid cloud infrastructure. Before the acquisition, Virtustream enjoyed strong commercial business, with such clients as Coca-Cola, Domino Sugar, Lexmark and others as customers. Stu Miniman ...

Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, discussed a full day of keynotes, lectures and interviews with IT leaders during VMworld. Gracely noted that although the conference didn’t generate a lot of “pre-noise,” guests seemed excited about VMware, Inc.’s latest announcements. “VMware talked about hybrid cloud, containers and hyperconverged like crazy,” Gracely ...

Today, Apple will reveal its latest smartphone at an event in San Francisco. But those cool iPhone apps wouldn’t function without infrastructure networking and companies such as T5 Data Centers, LLC, which provides enterprise-grade data center management. “These are the technologies that enable companies to stay in business and evolve,” said Craig McKesson, EVP of colocation ...

Infinidat, an enterprise-class storage systems company founded by industry vet Moshe Yanai, had its unofficial coming out party at VMworld 2015. The company recently announced a 300 percent sales growth for Q2 2015 and had a funding announcement in April. Infinidat CMO Randy Arseneau explained to Dave Vellante of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, ...

“End users? I thought EMC was about big iron!” said theCUBE cohost Dave Vellante, who started his interview with Jay Chitnis, director of mobility and end-user solutions for EMC, during VMworld 2015 on a light note. Chitnis stressed that cloud computing and Big Data powerhouse EMC considers the end-user experience a top concern. The company intends ...

VMworld 2015 attendees had many discussions about hybrid environments and industry transformation, according to Bina Hallman, VP of IBM Storage and Software Defined Systems. “We talk to clients about some of the business transformations, the dynamics in the industry, new applications, and new workloads,” Hallman told Dave Vellante of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during VMworld 2015. “Clients ...

VMware, Inc. showed the more than 23,000 VMworld attendees how it plans to dominate the Cloud infrastructure market and embrace new technologies. Of the latest buzzwords, such as hyper-converged and containers, VMware President and COO Carl Eschenbach said, “We don’t look at them as competitive threats. We look at them as marketing extension opportunities. They ...

When Bob Dussault, information security officer for Hallmark Business Connections, joined the company a few years ago, it had a mandate to do more with less. Dussault found a solution in the IT space with infrastructure delivery company Nutanix, Inc.. “We had to untangle a traditional three-tier infrastructure and make it more scalable,” Dussault told ...

It was a hectic 90 days from acquisition to the announcement that Blue Box would integrate with IBM’s OpenStack private Cloud options, where it would sit with subsidiary SoftLayer. In addition to personnel integration, the companies worked together on the technical integration. “It’s a real testament to the technical and engineering staff at Blue Box ...

OpenStack is ready for prime time, but that comes with cost — and challenges — said Nati Shalom, CTO and founder of GigaSpaces Technologies, which provides software middleware for deployment, management and scaling of mission-critical applications on Cloud environments. “The barrier to adoption for OpenStack is a lot of moving parts. A good approach is to ...