Cole Crawford may no longer be director of the Open Compute Project (OCP), but he’s still over the moon for Open Compute. As founder and CEO of Vapor IO, Crawford explained his decision to leave the OCP by saying that “every now and again you need to stop begin a preacher and be a shepherd.” While ...

When Rex Computing first opened it’s doors, their plan was to create the most power-efficient super computers in the world, said Rex Computing CEO Thomas Sohmers during an interview with theCUBE host Jeff Frick at OCP Summit 2015. In order to realize that goal, the folks at Rex Computing had to take processing infrastructure into their ...

Workload-defined architecture is the way of the future, said the Intel Corporation‘s Raejeanne Skillern. As GM of the Cloud Services Provider Business Unit at Intel, she knows first hand that in order to really take advantage of scale optimization in hyperscale, Intel needed to “finely tune architecture for the unique workloads that [customers] are running,” ...

James Liao believes that networking will soon undergo a paradigm shift. The virtualization trend that has sparked wildfires of innovation in software and compute will spread to the network. Right now, Liao explained that the problem is that “a virtual machine which takes sixty seconds to create takes one day to configure.” That’s where Liao’s ...

Aaron Sullivan, a distinguished engineer at Rackspace, Inc., believes there are still improvements to be made when it comes to cloud and the stack, and that Open Compute will spark those innovations. He sat down with theCUBE co-hosts Jeff Frick and John Furrier at the recent OCP Summit to talk about Rackspace, the role of ...

Rapidly changing industry norms are a testament to the power of the Open Compute Project, said Frank Frankovsky, the President and Chairman of the Open Compute Project Foundation. Once viewed as a “hacker” organization with a “hacker” conference, Frankovsky said the voice of the community has risen in support of the Open Compute Project. And that ...

Open sourcing hardware and software is “core to [Facebook, Inc.’s] mission,” according to Matt Corddry, Director of Hardware Engineering at Facebook. In a live interview with theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Kelly during OCP Summit 2015, Corddry explained that the benefit to the internet behemoth, he explained, is that it “actually helps us move ...

“Cloud is everywhere,” said the IBM‘s Don Boulia, VP of Cloud Services. The company is positioning itself as the ideal candidate to help the enterprise access cloud without sacrificing their systems of record. IBM is moving traditional middleware closer to the cloud and, explained Boulia, focusing on “deploying in different types of cloud, deploying as a service, ...

The IBM Corporation‘s announcements around cloud services and cloud capabilities at the IBM Interconnect conference last week are in-line with flattening and accelerating the organization. “It’s about speed,” said Inhi Cho Suh, VP/GM of Big Data, Integration, and Governance at IBM, “and being market-oriented.” IBM also announced a partnership with Juniper and additional capabilities in ...

In the final hours of the BigDataSV conference, Wikibon.org analyst Jeff Kelly and SiliconANGLE founder John Furrier sat down to review the events of the day. They touched on a variety of key announcements, including the “fallout from the ODP.” “In general,” Furrier commented, his impression is that “the big guys are aligning.” EMC in particular ...