Digital transformation goes beyond any single service, said Steve Bates, Principal CIO advisory KPMG LLP, runs the Global Technology Business Management Practice. Technology has been “democratized,” he said, “and is accessible to everyone.” It this type of environment, leaves some businesses questioning, “how to invest in the right thing?” This, Bates said to Dave Vellante ...

Jay Anderson, the CIO of ServiceNow, was brought in to make sure that ServiceNow was able to maintain its internal business during a period of rapid growth. “We had to become more efficient,” Anderson told TheCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and John Furrier at ServiceNow’s Knowledge15 event in Las Vegas, and he’s “using ServiceNow technology to ...

Amazon Machine Learning is designed to remove barriers to entry for developers, said Matt Wood, GM of the Data Science Team at Amazon Web Services, Inc. This fully managed machine learning service is specifically designed to enable developers to “focus on working with their data,” said Wood. Wood explained that Amazon Machine Learning connects developers with ...

Every business “assumes [it’s] been breached,” said Swaroop Sayeram, Group Product Manager, Cloud & Data Center Security at the Intel Security Group, the question is how to “identify, stop the spread, [and] remediate,” Sayeram stated. He predicted that solving rampant security breeches will require new approaches and collaboration   A new focus on secure servers   ...

Changes in the fundamental relationship between humanity and technology drove Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee to write “The Second Machine Age.” In their book, the two MIT Sloan School of Business professors addressed recent economic trends that have seen median income fall as the overall economy grows. “It’s no coincidence,” said McAfee, that this phenomenon ...

Splunk Inc. is sweet on Amazon Web Services, Inc.’s AWS platform  — and the feeling is mutual. “We couldn’t be more excited with the growth we’re experiencing,” said Marc Olesen, SVP & GM of Cloud Solutions at Splunk. The relationship between Splunk and AWS is “very strategic,” said Olesen. In a world where “every customer has a ...

Zadara Storage provides storage cloud services around the world by delivering enterprise hardware at consumer-level prices. Their mission, said Noam Shendar, COO at Zadara Storage, is to give customers the flexibility to pay only for the storage they use — and to increase or decrease their amount of storage at will.   How Zadara Works   ...

When he first started working at Time Inc., Colin Bodell said that he wanted to earn the company a “big win” right away. According to Bodell, his solution was to get “out of the data center business” and move Time to the Amazon Web Services, Inc. Cloud. Time’s hosting costs, he said, “went from $75,000 to ...

Last year, with the intention of accelerating the adoption of cloud computing, Microsoft Corporation contributed all the hardware design for their internal applications, including Azure, Bing, and Microsoft Office, to the OCP. Kushagra Vaid, Microsoft’s GM of Server Engineering/Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise, said this year they plan to expand on those donations across several fronts. ...

Open Compute might not be “a sexy topic,” said but it represents the best of “off the charts innovation,” said John Furrier during a live wrap-up segment with Jeff Frick on theCUBE at OCP Summit 2015. Furrier and Frick joined forces to remark on their observations while at the Open Compute Summit. “There’s an ecosystem developing,” ...