The big disruptor now is the lightweight nature of container technology, according to Apcera, Inc. CEO Derek Collison. The bleeding-edge companies, such as Netflix, which use AMIs and containers, fuel this disruption. Collison talked with John Furrier, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during OpenStack Silicon Valley. “If it’s a container, it’s extra lightweight, and ...

Only 90 days ago, Blue Box Group became part of the IBM family. Now, Blue Box integrates with IBM’s OpenStack private Cloud options where it will sit with subsidiary SoftLayer. “This gives Blue Box access to the whole network of SoftLayer locations,” said Todd Moore, vice president of open technology for IBM. “Enterprises have access to private ...

Most people know DreamWorks Studios for its award-winning films, television programs and video games. It’s no surprise that behind all of those crisp images lies some state-of-the-art technology. Scott Miller, senior technologist at DreamWorks Feature Animation, joined John Furrier of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during OpenStack Silicon Valley, to discuss how DreamWorks has ...

Platform9, a Cloud service that transforms infrastructure into an agile, self-service private Cloud, is one of a new generation of startups that approach OpenStack in a new way. “Our goal is to make private Cloud at any scale extremely out-of-the-box, intuitive and simple,” said Madhura Maskasky, Platform9 cofounder and VP of product. “We package OpenStack and ...

Just 90 days ago, Blue Box became part of the IBM family. At OpenStack Silicon Valley 2015, IBM announced that Blue Box will integrate with IBM’s OpenStack private Cloud options, where it will sit with subsidiary SoftLayer. Blue Box founder and CTO Jesse Proudman said that despite the company’s independent success, merging with IBM was a natural ...

After two years of hard work, August Capital finally sees the fruits of AppFormix, Inc.’s labor. AppFormix, a provider of infrastructure performance optimization for Cloud-based datacenters, aims to bridge the gap between applications and infrastructure. The company recently announced that it would integrate with Mirantis OpenStack to bring improved analytics and control to IT administrators. ...

About a year ago, Hewlett-Packard, Co. made a billion dollar commitment to open-source Cloud computing. “We’re really delivering on that,” HP Cloud CMO Bobby Patrick told theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s production team, during OpenStack Summit 2015. “If you look at the customers that are on stage now — Fox, Dreamworks, customers like Interlinx …we’ve come a long ...

As more businesses turn to tech companies to implement dependable and secure private Clouds, an increasing number of new and innovative solutions are rising to the surface. Jesse Proudman, Blue Box Group, Inc. founder and CTO, joined theCUBE, a SiliconANGLE production, during OpenStack Summit 2015 to discuss his company’s new private Cloud offering, powered by OpenStack. It handles “all the ...

As open-source initiatives continue to grow, an increasing number of enterprises are taking part in the movement. Kismatic, Inc., the startup that provides enterprise support for Docker and Kubernetes, has put itself at the center of the emerging Kubernetes open-source project. Kismatic CEO Patrick Reilly caught up theCUBE, a SiliconANGLE Media production, during OpenStack Summit 2015 to ...

Formed less than six months ago, the Cloud Foundry Foundation, which controls Pivotal Software, Inc.’s Cloud Foundry, has made much progress in a short amount of time. “We’re waking up in a world where we care about two things: multivendor and multicloud,” said Cloud Foundry CEO Sam Ramji, who filled in theCUBE cohost John Furrier on ...