Kathryn Buford
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When the Game is Virtualization, Fusion-io Tells Competition to “Bring It”
In their ongoing coverage of Oracle Open World 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Lee Caswell, Fusion-io VP of Virtualiation Product Group. The three discuss the importance of fast and consistent performance and end with a game of technology word association that leads Caswell to boast to his competition: “Bring it.” As the ...
The One Thing NetApp Does, Knocks It Out the Ballpark: Evolution of Storage #OOW13
In their ongoing coverage of Oracle Open World 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Patrick Rogers, NetApp VP of Product Marketing and Alliances, in theCUBE. The three discuss the role of storage in driving innovation, cloud solutions and the importance of open source to enterprises. As Vellante notes, NetApp focuses exclusively on storage. ...
Number 1 Service Provider for a Reason: Why EMC Has the Speed to Lead #OOW13
In their ongoing coverage of Oracle Open World 2013, John Furrier and Stu Miniman spoke with Eric Herzog SVP of Product Management and Product Marketing at EMC. The three discuss new trends in data storage, EMC’s continued success with Flash and what makes for successful acquisitions. Given that EMC is the leading service provider in ...
No More Black Box: EMC Protection Storage Architecture Proves Efficient #OOW13
In their ongoing coverage of Oracle Open World 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Guy Churchward, EMC President of Backup Recovery Systems and Stephen Manley, CTO EMC Backup Recovery Systems in theCUBE. The three discuss EMC’s journey to delivering effective protection storage architecture, what their solutions mean to Oracle customers, and the importance ...
Enormous and Exploding: Now is The Time of Cloudera’s “Cloud Era” #OOW2013
In their ongoing coverage of Oracle Open World 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with Mike Olson, Chairman of the board of Cloudera and Chief Strategy Officer in theCUBE. The three discuss changes in the industry that now make it easy for Cloudera to simply offer their solutions without having to explain the significance ...
Why Businesses Are Either Creative Or Irrelevant: Q & A with Creative Class Group CEO, Rana Florida
It’s a well understood expression in business: Stagnation is regression; businesses either advance or fall behind. Creativity does not just give businesses the competitive edge, according to Rana Florida author of Upgrade and CEO of the Creative Class Group (CCG), it is the competitive edge. The one thing every business must know also holds true ...
Software Defined Storage Rises Through Perfect Storm | #VMworld
In their ongoing coverage of VMworld 2013, Dave Vellante and John Furrier speak with Criag Nunes, VP Storage Marketing for HP. The three discuss key trends in IT, focusing on Software Defined Storage (SDS). Vellante begins with the foundational question: “What is software defined storage?” Nunes defines it as “hardware agnostic” and “independent” software that ...
How FedEX Perfects the Hard Work of Effortlessness | #VMworld
In their ongoing coverage of VMworld 2013, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman speak with Chris Greer, Chief Engineer of Architecture for FedEx. The three discuss the IT savvy and innovation it takes to make the effortlessness of international, same-day and guaranteed deliveries feel so effortless for corporations and SMBs. Speaking of one of their major ...
How Juniper and VMware Address the Toughest IT Challenges | #VMworld
In their ongoing coverage of VMworld 2013, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman spoke with both Denise Shiffman, Vice President, Product Management and Strategy at Juniper Networks and Hatem Naguib, Vice President, Networking and Security at VMware. The three discuss Juniper’s unique offerings and their integration with VMware. Naguib shares his enthusiasm for VMware’s new NSX ...
Why The Human Factor Makes the Difference in Digital Music: Spotify vs. Google All Access
What music lovers want and what they value can be quite different. Following suit of Pandora’s pioneering platform, many music services including Spotify and All Access have used human expertise to teach computers to identify and play songs in a style that exemplifies the instrumentation, influences and even gender of the artist a user chooses. ...