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“Flame” Virus is the Latest Greatest Cyber Weapon Discovery
Wired.com is reporting that Russian security researchers from Kaspersky Labs have found a sophisticated computer virus that is infecting computers in Iran and other Middle East countries. Indications are that the virus appears to be designed to gather private data from the targeted computer systems. Described by Kaspersky as sophisticated, the virus is known as “Flame” ...
Cisco on the Next-Gen Datacenter
Cisco’s Dominic Delfino is the Senior Director for the company’s datacenter portfolio and he sat in on #theCube at EMCWorld 2012 with Stuart Miniman for a discussion that covered the evolving datacenter, EMC, and Cisco’s role in the changing environment. Delfino has been a part of the EMC-Cisco relationship since day one and has worked ...
EMC’s Chuck Hollis on IT Transformation
Chuck Hollis, EMC Vice President and Global Marketing CTO sat in on theCube this week at EMCWorld 2012, where he shared some of the latest coming from EMC with Dave Vellante. Hollis is always a great source for insight, the video is well worth watching and can be seen here. With a range of topics ...
Flash in the Cloud is Still Early in Innovation, Says Solidfire
David Cahill, Director of Strategic Alliances for Solidfire made an appearance on theCube at EMCWorld 2012. Solidfire is a revolutionary player in the cloud architecture realm. As the only all-flash array product that is focused exclusively to the cloud service provider market, the Boulder, Colorado based company is on a trajectory to full general availability ...
U.S. State Department Hacks al-Qaeda Webpages
An AP report has disclosed that the U.S. State Department launched the “hacking” of al-Qaeda sites in Yemen. The article states that propaganda on the web pages was reversed to show altered versions of the ads that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton describes as showing “the toll al-Qaeda attacks have taken on the Yemeni ...
EMC CIO Talks Transformation of People, Business and IT
Sanjay Mirchandani, CIO of EMC, sat in on theCube for a discussion at EMCWorld 2012. The topics were rapid and we were fortunate enough to discuss some of the great things going on at EMC with him. (See full video below). Kicking off was a discussion on customer perspective and how people want proof-points. Building ...
Networking Structure Key for Big Data, Cloud and Analytics, Says Brocade CEO [Video]
At EMCWorld 2012 Brocade CEO Michael Klayko dropped in on theCube for an interview (see video below). Sharing insight on Brocade’s positions, relationship with EMC, and products, Klayko shared some great thoughts on the business and a peek into the current state and future of the company. Whether the topic is big data, clouds, analytics or ...
Mr. October Reggie Jackson #44 on Leadership and SAP
Always ready to cover any and all technology related topics the Cube had a visit from the one and only Mr. October, Reggie Jackson at the SAPphire 2012 conference (see full interview below). A Hall of Fame MVP Yankees and A’s legend, Jackson is also an accomplished business man and he shared his experiences with the SAP ...
Microsoft a DevOps Player?
DevOps on Microsoft – Seems kind of at odds doesn’t it? DevOps as a movement has been very close to open source roots, allowing developers to really drive the course over operations and infrastructure. Microsoft is moving towards DevOps integration by integrating new features in the forthcoming release of Visual Studio 11. The product remains ...
Dizzion Dazzles – Cloud meets Desktop
Some exciting things are happening from the mile high city. The Bring your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon has seen a rapid growth of adoption and is fundamentally changing the way enterprises handle computing. The folks over at Dizzion are offering a solution that delivers across the spectrum of devices, environments, and most importantly in user ...