Matt Eastwood, senior VP of research firm IDC’s Enterprise Infrastructure and Datacenter Group, spoke with theCUBE about IDC’s latest forecasts for the hyperconverged systems market. The company’s 2014 Worldwide Hyperconverged Systems Vendor Assessment ranked Nutanix, Inc. a leader over SimpliVity Corp. Software-defined infrastructures to put pressure on “integrated” market Nutanix generated 52 percent of all ...

Nearly 1,000 attendees flocked to Miami, Florida, for enterprise virtualization and storage company Nutanix, Inc.’s inaugural .NEXT conference this week. The five-year-old company made several new product announcements to build on its hyperconverged solutions for enterprise computing. The company kicked off its presentations with introductions from the company’s first users. “How do you best highlight ...

As HP Discover headed into its final day, theCUBE cohosts Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick reviewed the announcements from the past two days and discussed how HP can remain at the forefront in a competitive industry. Vellante noted the risk involved in HP’s forthcoming split into HP, Inc. and HP Enterprise. Although HP could take ...

At HP Discover, Hewlett-Packard Co. leaders discussed the company’s software shift from technology services to a transformation of the business of IT. “We’ve been working on automation,” Jerome Labat, global CTO of HP Software told theCUBE. “We’re looking at data and Big Data as a way to provide insight, to solve the existing job of ...

HP executed the hybrid Cloud strategy it laid out three years ago, according to Steve Dietch, HP’s VP of Cloud Solutions & Infrastructure. “Customers are deciding what applications are going to stay on- and off-premises, and they need an effective way to manage that complexity and get the benefits of a hybrid IT environment,” he ...

At the close of HP Discover Day 1, theCUBE cohosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier gave high marks to HP for its four transformation areas: transform to hybrid infrastructure; protect your digital enterprise; empower your data-driven organization; and enable workplace productivity. “Overall I’m very impressed with the messaging, and the lesser focus on speeds and ...

Jason Newton, senior director of marketing for HP’s Enterprise Group, returned to theCUBE at HP Discover 2015 to talk more about Enterprise Group messaging and the power of what HP calls “the idea economy.” Some of the industry’s most successful tech companies philosophize about today’s economy, calling it the digital economy, the application economy or ...

Now that flash, the Cloud and other technologies have transformed the storage industry, HP customers want to know how to modernize their architecture with minimal investment. Bill Philbin, VP of HP’s Virtual Development Unit, argues for the Cloud. “Storage is an exciting place to be right now,” he told theCUBE during HP Discover 2015. “There ...

As laid out in the keynotes during HP Discover Day 1, alliances are a key part of HP’s strategy to strengthen its partner community. HP is reworking its product approach to address key transformations taking place in hybrid IT, analytics, mobility and security. “Our whole approach is HP-plus-partners,” Duncan Campbell, senior director of WW Alliances ...

At this year’s HP Discover, the company discussed a more solutions-oriented focus and a shift toward a more unified Hewlett-Packard, Co. Why the change? “The answer is simple: our customers demand it,” Antonio Neri, senior VP and general manager of HP’s Enterprise Group, told SiliconANGLE’s premier video broadcast show, theCUBE, during the event. “When you ...