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Kubernetes pioneers raise $8.5 million in bid to make containers enterprise-ready
Former Google Cloud executive and Craig McLuckie is teaming up Kubernetes pioneer Joe Beda to launch Heptio Inc. with a goal of making software containers mainstream in the enterprise. McLuckie (above) will be chief executive of the new venture, which has raised $8.5 million from Accel Partners LP and Madrona Venture Group. Accel General Partner Ping ...
Podcast: analyzing the Trump election results on the Silicon Valley Friday Show
In my weekly podcast this week, the Silicon Valley Friday Show, we had as featured guests Tom Joyce, a former executive with EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. and Dell, and Bullpen Capital founder Paul Martino, our venture capitalist of the week. The disruption this week, of course, was the presidential election of Donald Trump. I wanted ...
Understanding the Internet of Things marketplace
The Internet of Things has great promise and is transforming businesses overnight. As General Electric Chairman and Chief Executive Jeff Immelt put it recently at Dell EMC World, “Yesterday we went to bed an industrial company and today we woke up as a software company.” But with that promise comes great peril as well. Connected ...
Silicon Valley Friday Show podcast: TechTruth fellows chart the future of journalism
This week’s Silicon Valley Friday Show podcast (episode 5), recorded in Houston at the Grace Hopper Celebration in Women in Computing, features young journalists in the TechTruth Fellowship sponsored by SiliconANGLE Media and The GroundTruth Project. The fellows, who produced news stories from the conference and did reporting for upcoming features, are Karis Hustad, Pooja ...
Podcast: analyzing the AWS-VMware deal and much more on the Silicon Valley Friday Show
This week’s podcast Silicon Valley Friday Show (episode 4) drills down on the industry-changing deal between Amazon Web Services and VMware Inc. to bring a viable hybrid cloud solution to the market. Peter Burris and I go deep on what is going on with AWS and VMware. Of course, we also have fun and talk ...
Igneous Systems launches on-premises cloud data service
For all the computing activity that’s moving to the cloud, many companies need to maintain some of their systems and data in their own data centers — either because they’re generating too much to move easily into the cloud or because they don’t want to risk exposing their crown jewels. But they still want all ...
Weekly Review with John Furrier and Peter Burris: Twitter, don’t sell! And can Oracle be a growth stock? #Podcast
Welcome to the new Silicon Valley Friday Show with me – a weekly entertaining look at top stories in Silicon Valley. Join me weekly or subscribe. It has been tons of fun to get our new weekly podcast show called the Silicon Valley Friday Show. We are now on episode No. 3. Show Format: Primarily ...
Analysis of the State of OpenStack – OpenStack Silicon Valley
This week @theCUBE team will be covering the OpenStack community at the annual OpenStack SV event in Mountain View, California. SiliconANGLE Media has research on this topic at Wikibon.com (registration required) for all the latest on OpenStack and the impact of cloud computing. State of OpenStack OpenStack community was going through a period of introspection, ...
IO data center as a platform conference coming Sept. 13 in Menlo Park
I’m excited to share that @theCUBE will be broadcasting live at a special event in Silicon Valley at the Rosewood Hotel in Menlo Park called Data Center as a Platform Conference. The event is an exclusive event for CxOs and IT datacenter managers looking for new ways to manage the growth of datacenter and cloud ...
Clarfication on my comments on Cloudera on theCUBE at #HadoopSummit
I was in Dublin this week broadcasting live on #theCUBE at the Hadoop Summit event. It’s customary that at the end of each day, I and my co-host (Dave Vellante in this case) wrap up each day with an editorial and opinion segment where we summarize, analyze, opine and connect the dots on what we ...