Bill Schmarzo, the “dean of Big Data” and chief technology officer of EMC’s Global Services Big Data Practice, led a roundtable discussion along with John Walls, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE media team, during EMC World 2016. Schmarzo got the conversion started by asking Raimondo Zizza, CIO of TIM Brasil, what challenges the company ...

One of EMC’s many announcements during EMC World 2016 was the release of LEAP, a suite of cloud-native apps designed to help businesses optimize content. The company paired that announcement with the arrival of its InfoArchive 4.0 data archiving solution. These announcements and others signify EMC’s forward momentum toward the cloud. However, Jeroen van Rotterdam, CTO, VP and ...

The recent news that Dell will acquire EMC has major implications not only for the two industry leaders, but for the storage industry overall. Alan Atkinson, VP and GM of Dell Storage, whose company has a longstanding relationship with EMC, sees the acquisition as another sign that compute and storage are coming together. “When you think ...

Companies considering multi-cloud environments need navigational assistance. Sean Wedige, CTO of global enterprise solutions at Rackspace Hosting, advises these companies to watch out for the promise that “my cloud can do everything for you.” Dave Vellante (@dvellante), cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, who spoke with Wedige during EMC World 2016, agreed, noting that ...

With offerings such as VMAX3, VMAX All Flash, and the recently announced Virtustream public cloud platform, EMC has proclaimed 2016 the “year of flash” for primary storage. EMC’s flash offerings have come a long way since EMC redesigned VMAX from the ground up a few years ago. Fidelma Russo, SVP and GM of the VMAX ...

From electronic medical records to telemedicine, technology has transformed healthcare. University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Medicine, consistently recognized as a leading academic medical center, uses technology in myriad ways to improve patient care. With five hospitals, three rehabilitation hospitals and seven regional medical centers, Penn Medicine collects a lot of data. Vasee Sivasegaran, corporate director of ...

EMC was one of open source’s early adopters, bringing community-driven innovation to enterprise technology. It also knows its customers want value. Josh Bernstein, EMC’s new VP of technical strategy, sat down with Stu Miniman (@stu) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during EMC World to talk about the value open ...

As recent as 18 months ago, enterprise companies turned to data platforms, such as Hortonworks, Inc., for pilot projects. They saw Big Data as an experiment. Now, the enterprise has moved well beyond pilot implementation. “We’re talking second- and third-stage implementation,” said Matt Morgan, VP of product and alliance marketing for Hortonworks. “Companies are building apps ...

Zaloni, Inc., a provider of enterprise data lake management solutions, has witnessed Big Data evolve from a fascinating “science project” to a mature market. The Durham, North Carolina-based company, which recently raised its first round of funding, has use-cases in many major industries. CEO Ben Sharma says that these case studies show how much confidence ...

Mobile has completely upended consumer products. The majority of individuals in the United States own a smartphone. We can find mobile technology in our watch, television, car, even our thermostat. What does this mean for the enterprise? IBM Institute for Business Value aims to find out. “For the enterprise, mobile can help employees be more ...