In 2012, the healthcare technology and pharmaceutical provider McKesson Corp. gave itself two years and a small team to change how IT interacted with customers. It demanded a small, agile team willing to experiment with and invest in new technology. After rearchitecting the organization, McKesson landed on EMC Corp.’s enterprise hybrid cloud. At VMworld 2014, ...

As a venture capitalist who had hand in the success of DataGravity, Inc. and Docker, Inc., Dr. Steve Herrod has an eye for start ups. The managing partner at General Catalyst Partners sat down with theCUBE hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier during a live broadcast from VMware, Inc.’s annual VMworld conference to discuss his ...

As the Managing Partner at early-stage investment firm Ignition Partners, Frank Artale is proud that his company was an early investor in Big Data. Ignition predicted a resurgence in enterprise IT and is now amazed to see how much innovation is occurring on that front. A huge asset to that innovation are the professional ISB ...

Dheeraj Pandey believes his company, Nutanix, Inc. CEO, is just beginning to blossom and will continue to expand. At this week’s VMworld 2014 conference, there’s been a buzz about Nutanix’s most recent financing round of $140 million, announced this morning. In conversation with Dave Vellante and John Furrier at SiliconANGLE’s roving news desk theCUBE, Pandey expounded on aspects of ...

Flash is at it’s economic tipping point, said Violin Memory, Inc. CMO Eric Herzog. It’s reached the financial sweet spot that makes it the most viable option for many companies. Herzog sat down with theCUBE hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier at VMware, Inc.’s annual VMworld conference to talk about the evolution of flash, the resiliency ...

VMware, Inc. is revving its engines, hoping to scale from a $6 billion company to a $10 billion company, said VMware President and COO Carl Eschenbach. Whether it’s through new products like Airwatch or accessing new markets at home and abroad, Eschenbach said his company is poised to continue advancing innovation and driving value for ...

In the past year, software defined data center has become a reality, said John Gilmartin, GM and VP or the Software Defined Data Center Suite Business Unit at VMware, Inc. Now, VMware can provide its customers with what Gilmartin considers the ideal infrastructure to help their customers implement a self-service cloud within the enterprise and ...

Many people were disappointed when Google, Inc. released its demographics data in May, showing that only 30 percent of its employees are women and just 21 percent of its  people in leadership roles are female. Google isn’t alone, however. The National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) reported early this year that women hold only 26 percent of all ...

Trends in real time use cases have emerged as practitioners grow more accustomed to using and collecting Big Data. Companies on the front lines, like Talend and HP Vertica, are in a unique position to comment on and observe customer behavior as they begin to figure out how to make the best use of Big ...

Data should do more than help companies save money — it should make them money, said Peter Fishman, Director of Analytics at Yammer, Inc.. Since July of 2012, Yammer has been a part of Microsoft, Corp., providing private social networks within the company and contributing to Microsoft’s suite of products. Peter Fishman discussed Yammer’s integration ...