Despite early setbacks, OpenStack persevered to make steady progress toward its mission to provide an alternative to Amazon for the enterprise. At the conclusion of the third day of a successful OpenStack Summit in Vancouver, theCUBE cohosts Stu Miniman and John Furrier discussed OpenStack’s past, present and future. Although it experienced a rocky past, the ...

theCUBE cohosts Stu Miniman and John Furrier assessed the OpenStack technology and community as they prepared for their third day of interviews with industry leaders during the OpenStack Summit in Vancouver. Although the conference attracted between 6,000 to 7,000 people this year, Miniman said that OpenStack has some work to do before it reaches maturity. ...

theCUBE cohosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier closed out the HP Big Data Conference with optimism about what they consider one of HP’s most successful acquisitions in history. HP acquired Vertica in 2011. Vertica’s greatest asset, Vellante notes, was its DevOps employees. After HP put Colin Mahony in charge of the HP Software Big Data ...

In May, Hewlett-Packard Co. announced the acquisition of ContreXtream, a provider of OpenDaylight-based, carrier-grade SDN fabric for NFV, and an HP OpenNFV partner. With the acquisition, HP increased its involvement in ContreXtream’s contributions to the open-source community. ContreXtream’s Gal Mainzer, now engineering director for HP, said the company is turning its attention to telco-grade carrier ...

With 82,000 students, Arizona State University (ASU) prioritizes security. The Open Daylight platform and the open methodology allow the top-ranked research university to collaborate with other educational institutions, install an open flow-based firewall and streamline its internal infrastructure. The open philosophy has allowed ASU to create an extensive online education program. “One of president [Michael] ...

SDN is becoming part of a larger framework, according to Bala Thekkedath, SDN/NFV product marketing lead for Ericsson. In his keynote during the recent Open Daylight Summit in Santa Clara, California, Thekkedath discussed how Ericsson and Intel have come together to meet the needs of the service provider network. “We want to make sure we’re ...

The HP split into two companies — HP Inc., for personal systems and printing, and HP Enterprise, for technology infrastructure — continues to create buzz in the industry. But according to Calvin Zito, noted blogger and storage and social media expert for HP, the breakup will have a positive outcome. “The spit lets HP Enterprise ...

The theme for HP Discover 2015, “the idea economy,” faced criticism from some industry leaders during the popular IT conference. Ideas form the basis of the digital economy. Also, as theCUBE cohost Dave Vellante, noted, “HP is still a product company. They’ve got to put their products in front of people.” Cohost Jeff Frick agreed, ...

Global economics and security were key topics during Nutanix .NEXT 2015, as evidenced by guests such as former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. According to Alan Cohen, CCO of Illumio, Inc., these are not new issues. “The IP war that has been going on for some time has a national security implication,” he told ...

CoreOS, Inc., which creates and maintains open-source projects for Linux, showed its support for Nutanix, Inc. with an appearance at Nutanix .NEXT 2015. Nutanix supports Tectonic, CoreOS’ container platform, as a commercial partner, and the conference gave CoreOS a chance to show off its latest tools. CoreOS aims to improve the security and reliability of ...