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Brocade on the State and Future of Networking – Customer Choice is Key
The Cube’s John Furrier and Dave Vellante sat down with Jason Nolet, Vice President Data Center and Enterprise Networking Group, Brocade, at this year’s EMC World about the state of the networking market and where the market is going (see full video below). Brocade helped pioneer the storage area networking market with EMC. Lately Brocade’s ...
Cisco, Juniper Face Anxious Rival in Alcatel-Lucent: Re-entering the Market
Telecommunications provider Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a new core routing product and is officially making its entry into the $4 billion market for Internet core routers. The new platform, the 7950 Extensible Routing System (XRS), is based on the company’s 400Gbps FP3 processor and is optimized for video and the cloud. Buyers in the core router ...
Enterprise Drives New Features in Cloud Collaboration
The number of cloud storage providers has increased dramatically over the last couple of years. Many attract new users by offering free storage in hopes that users of the free services will convert to paying customers. While selling services to more consumers is great, enterprise customers are really the key to continued profitability and growth. ...
Yahoo: A Brief History of Failure
Yahoo used to be “the” place to go online. However, in recent years, the once illustrious web portal has been almost a continual state of decline. It seems almost every step the company takes moves it closer to demise. Even the hiring of a new CEO resulted in a public debacle and a “resignation.” Yahoo ...
Dell Taking Low Profits “In Stride”
The last few months have been quite the roller coaster ride for Dell. The company’s stock prices have fallen 17 percent to $12.49 – the largest one day decline the company has seen for twelve years. Overall, the share prices are down 15 percent for the year, making Dell the poorest performer in the Standard ...
EMC CTO Discusses the Current State of Big Data
The Cube is providing continuous coverage of EMC World 2012 being held in Las Vegas May 21 – 24. The Cube’s Dave Vellante sat down with Bill Schmarzo, CTO Enterprise Information Management and Analytics, EMC. Schmarzo said two activities at EMC World are consuming his time – speaking to analysts and speaking to customers. According ...
Video Conferencing and Networking Go Hand in Hand
Video conferencing and telepresence provider Vidyo has extended its fourth round of funding and attracted the attention of Juniper Networks. Vidyo has not disclosed the amount of investment, only saying that it has raised $97 million to date. The company will use the new cash infusion to support its growth and integrate its products with ...
Where Is Facebook’s Mobile Strategy Going?
Facebook isn’t allowing a pesky little drop in its IPO price distract it from doing a little shopping. The company has announced it is buying social gifting service Karma, founded by former Tapjoy co-founders Lee Linden and Ben Lewis. Does this latest purchase signal that the social media leader has finally figured out exactly what ...
EMC Helps Texas City Reduce Costs, Improve Business Continuity
EMC announced that Denton, TX, a city near the Dallas Ft. Worth metroplex, is standardizing on EMC technology. The city will be leveraging products such as EMC’s storage products EMC VNX and EMC VPLEX Metro. Denton was also able to virtualize 90 percent of infrastructure, which has significantly reduced cost and management effort. Prior to ...
Exploring SAP’s Mobile Strategy at SAPphire 2012 [Video]
The Cube’s John Furrier, Founder, Silicon Angle and Dave Vellante, Co-founder, Wikibon, interviewed Thorsten Stephan, VP Mobile Applications Unit, SAP at this year’s SAP Sapphire Now in Orlando, FL about SAP’s mobile strategy (see full video below). SAP is clearly making a large effort to rebrand itself as a company that offers technology solutions everywhere, ...