On November 1, HP officially split into two separate companies: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) and HP, Inc. “I had been saying presplit that HP had to shrink to grow, and that’s exactly what’s happening,” said Dave Vellante, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the kickoff to HPE Discover 2015 in London. “Now [CEO] ...

Stu Miniman, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, sat down with well-known industry vet Paula Long, cofounder and CEO DataGravity, Inc., to find out her take on VMworld 2015 versus 2014. “I see a lot of refinement of ideas that came out last year,” she said. “I also see a lot of twists, such as, ‘I ...

Engineering consulting firm Release Engineering Approaches is currently working with Salesforce.com on DevOps issues such as retrospectives, a process that determines what went well and what didn’t go well, as well as how to improve next time. “They have a complex system that they operate for their customers, and sometimes it has service impacts or ...

From a DevOps perspective, Salesforce.com wants others in the industry to learn how to accept failures and optimize success. “We want people to think about how they view failures, how they learn from failures and how to interact with one another,” said Kevina Finn-Braun, ITSM director of site reliability engineering for Salesforce.com. “You can’t be completely ...

The guests at this year’s DevOps Enterprise Summit even surprised host Gene Kim, noted researcher, author, former CTO of Tripwire, Inc. and author and DevOps enthusiast at IT Revolution Press. The conference invited organizations such as Target, Nationwide and Capital One back this year to share how their DevOps journey has progressed over the past year. The ...

At Oracle OpenWorld 2015, keynote speakers predicted a future with two clouds. Jim McHugh, Cisco System, Inc.’s UCS VP of product and solutions marketing, told Stu Miniman, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, that the industry would support more than two. “I believe there will be many different clouds,” he said. “As we ...

Cisco Systems, Inc.’s Unified Computing System (UCS) uses essentially the same processors as its competitors. But it uses them differently to deliver high performance to more than 30,000 customers, according to Girish Kulkarni, Cisco’s senior product marketing manager. “Each vendor and competitor has access to the same processors,” Kulkarni told Stu Miniman,cohost of theCUBE, from the ...

In the “early days” of cloud computing, Oracle customers raised concerns about performance, support and licensing. Fast forward 10 years. Oracle and other companies have proven high performance and support, but licensing remains “the last hurdle,” House of Brick Technologies, LLC CEO Nathan Biggs told Stu Miniman, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, ...

The VMware User Group (VMUG), an independent, global, customer-led organization, has its first-ever CEO: Brad Tompkins, who comes to VMUG from IaaS provider Immedion, LLC, where he served as general manager. As VMUG grows from more than 100,000 active members, some internal restructuring was needed to take it to the next level of growth. Tompkins ...

Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, prepared for a final day of interviews with IT leaders at VMworld 2015. As the two discussed the highlights and the buzz around the showroom floor, Gracely gave his take on the current state of the developer community. “What was always interesting to ...