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Vonage’s big push at Enterprise Connect 2016 | #EC16
Vonage (Vonage Holdings Corp.), a sponsor for @theCUBE at Enterprise Connect, is putting in a big push for the Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS). The very latest in cloud-based communication services for Enterprise will be showcased at the Enterprise Connect show next week in Orlando. “Adoption of UCaaS solutions among large enterprises is expected ...
Collaboration industry in transition at Enterprise Connect #EC16
Enterprise Connect event in Orlando next week will feature some of the biggest names in technology driving the next generation of unified communications. SiliconANGLE Media @theCUBE and Jim Burton’s team at UC Strategies will be extracting the signal from the noise in Orlando next week. One company that will be disrupting the collaboration market is ...
EMC VMware X-Factor Launch – Ask Executives Anything (AMA) #TakeTheLeap
EMC and VMware are launching a new focus around VCE called X-Factor. Product launch is virtual so go to EMC.com for the event at 8am pst. This is EMC’s expanded VCE opportunity under the new leader Chad Sakic. SiliconANGLE and CrowdChat have the opportunity for you to have access for one hour the EMC ...
Is Uber the next Webvan? Will Uber go bankrupt?
There was a report yesterday on the price wars between Uber USA LLC and Lyft, Inc. According to Bloomberg, in a price war with rival Lyft, Uber reduced its rates by 10 – 45 percent in 100 cities across North America. Can Uber continue to be darling that represents the cloud, mobile, social generation of ...
Cloud wars: Oracle CEO Mark Hurd’s vision to gain cloud market share
Oracle Corp. is stepping up the volume to educate the world that they are winning the cloud game. Oracle’s CEO, provides a detailed view into the future of Oracle’s overarching business strategy which centers around cloud computing across Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and how Oracle is highly differentiated and investing heavily in these ...
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd #CubeCards
Here is a collection of #CubeCards from my exclusive sit down with Oracle CEO Mark Hurd. #CubeCards – Pictures can tell a thousand words.
Facebook CTO in NYC shares his thoughts on the future of Artificial Intelligence
Mike Schroepfer, Facebook Chief Technology Officer, posted on his news feed this morning his thoughts on the future of artificial intelligence (AI). From SIRI to self-driving cars, AI is developing fast and dominating the conversations in “cutting edge” computer science thought leadership circles. Many think AI is science fiction magically turning computers into intelligent bots/machines with human-like ...
Women in Tech in Silicon Valley – Elephant in Silicon Valley
Women in Silicon Valley has been a hot topic over the past year. A group of influential women in tech initiated a site called www.elephantinthevalley.com to solicit a crowdsourced campaign to get at the heart of the issues directly from women themselves. The site was created by a small sample of women including Trae Vassallo, Ellen Levy, Michele ...
Analysis: What’s in store for cloud and big data this year
The biggest technology trends this year will continue to be cloud, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT). Cloud computing will continue to change the landscape of the enterprise while consumer technology will be disrupted by the role of big data and IoT technologies. Latest evidence is seen by Wikibon’s Future of Cloud Computing ...
Is the era of pure play storage companies coming to an end?
An indisputable fact throughout the history of the storage industry is that there have really only been two companies that have succeeded as standalone storage pure plays—EMC and NetApp. Now that Pure Storage has gone public and we are seeing lots of venture capital investments in the storage sector, the question everyone is asking is ...