Once “an exercise in pain management,” NFL game scheduling has become vastly easier in the past few years thanks to some powerful IBM number-crunching. Mike North, Senior Director of Broadcast Planning and Scheduling was at IBM Edge to thank IBM “for their generosity in lending us, really each year, the latest and greatest” hardware that ...

As an EMC practitioner, Independent Bank represents a company whose customers rely on the bank’s ability to protect their information. At the same time, the bank is expected to grant those customers access to their data, day and night, from a PC or mobile device. Tom McKowen, VP of Information Technology at Independent Bank, visited ...

As IT solutions evolve to meet the needs of a greater variety of businesses, distributors like SHI work to find the best products to fit their customer’s needs. On theCUBE at EMC World 2014, SHI’s Director of Strategic Partners, Brandon Farrell, discussed his clients’ present needs and his predictions about the technology they will ask for ...

For small and mid-size businesses, finding an affordable, effective storage solution can be a challenge. EMC, hand-in-hand with their channel partner Ingram Micro, is working to solve this problem. Their business tactics, product offerings, and predictions were the focus of theCUBE interview with Jeff Boudreau, EMC’s SVP and General Manager of VNX Business Unit, and ...

Excited to speak with a customer, John Furrier and Dave Vellante welcomed Brendon McCaulley, Executive Director of IT Service Operations at Heartland Payment Systems, to theCUBE at the IBMEdge conference in Las Vegas. Innovation on the rise despite a flat IT budget Furrier began by asking McCaulley how innovation was changing in IT and if ...

John Furrier sat down with two executives from Micro Strategies, Steve DeLuca, SVP of Sales, and Ray Scardelli, VP of Sales and Marketing, to discuss the changes and challenges they observed in the IT market, particularly around the cloud. Furrier first asked DeLuca and Scardelli what IBM Edge is all about this year. Scardelli replied ...

In their interview with Brian Jeffery, Managing Director of ITG, Jeff Frick and Dave Vellante gained valuable insight into IT economics, discussing the costs and challenges that IT must overcome if they wish to maximize profitability. Where does the money go in IT?   In his first question, Vellante asked Jeffery to share “a little ...

In their second interview at #IBMEdge, Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick interviewed Bob Elliott, VP of storage at Mainline. An IBM partner, Mainline handles a lot of server storage business, and is one of the larger IBM storage partners in the United States. First, Vellante asked Elliott what was changing for Mainline due to current ...

At the EMC World conference, Stu Miniman got to speak with two EMC decision makers to shed a little light on Big Data’s burgeoning role in the IT industry. John Cardente, Big Data and Analytics, Corporate CTO Office of EMC and Aiden O’Brien, GM of EMC’s Big Data solutions, walked Miniman through some of their ...

In their wrap-up of day two’s live coverage from this year’s OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, GA theCUBE co-hosts Stu Miniman and John Furrier reviewed their learnings from the day’s interviews and offered predictions about trends to watch as OpenStack matures in the coming years. Furrier started of by stating that, after today, it’s clear to ...