R. Danes
Latest from R. Danes
The new Open Compute world: Is software the best bet for differentiation? | #OCPSummit16
The OCP Summit 2016 has been a bustling affair, with heavy hitters like Goldman Sachs, Facebook and even Google showing up to get the scoop on Open Compute innovation. Stu Miniman and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, assessed the summit regarding the overall tone and highlights. Miniman said he had ...
Why AI needs flash: Micron gears up for ‘crazy interesting stuff’ this year | #OCPSummit16
Self-driving cars, real-time video collaboration, data decision-making algorithms — the technologies and applications exciting businesses and consumers all have lightening fast memory as their backbone. But the reality, according to Eric Endebrock, VP of storage solutions marketing at Micron Technology, Inc., is that flash memory and storage has yet to penetrate the industry — only about five percent ...
Do you know why you want cloud services? | #OCPSummit16
Everyone wants to move to the cloud, but surprisingly few know exactly why. They’ve heard things about pay-as-you-go, efficiency, the ability to spin up and spin down applications — but is it right for them? All of it or some of it? To answer those questions, Mike Schutz, GM of cloud platform marketing at Microsoft, ...
The voice/video/chat/IM/telecom beast keeps growing | #EC16
These days placing a call from a cellular phone in public is looking like a pretty old-fashioned way to get in touch. Technology is growing telecom into a multi-armed communication wizard, combining more and more ways to send messages and media between business collaborators and friends. Stephen Brough, global director of business development and sales ...
How cloud and tech are disrupting media’s ‘marketplace of ideas’ | #EC16
Americans have long cherished freedom of the press and the open competition of views in what’s called the marketplace of ideas. But, if you think our system is as open and democratic as possible, Jeff Fairbanks, global head of AV and media technology at Bloomberg LP, wants you to know you ain’t seen nothing yet. ...
Does every company have to become a technology company? | #EC16
“Digitize or die” seems to be the ultimatum facing businesses these days, as competitors race for the technological tools that can give them an edge. Many find themselves wondering where to begin the transition. According to Rowan Trollope, SVP & GM of the collaboration technology group at Cisco Systems, Inc., the first order of business ...
Is digitization a true win-win for bosses and employees? | #EC16
Technology has changed the way we work in many ways over the years, and now the moment we’ve all been waiting for is here — it is going to help up work less. At least that is according to Craig Walker, founder and CEO of Dialpad, Inc. Formerly Switch.co, Dialpad is a communications technology company used by ...
Disrupting the office: Will new tech make cubicles and commuting obsolete? | #EC16
If you’re thinking of packing up and trying the digital nomad lifestyle, you may soon get your chance. Telecommunications companies are going high tech and leaving bosses with fewer excuses to require employees to trek into the office every day. CaféX Communications, Inc. is one company that is using technology to provide easy, frictionless ways ...
Faster, stronger, smaller: How cloud is changing the role of the IT department | #EC16
Cloud continues to subsume previously bulky and expensive hard technology into itself, and communications continue to make their way in. Technological disruption in businesses and life is being matched by the disruption of IT itself thanks to the cloud — and it constitutes “a seismic shift” for the industry, according to Alan Masarek, CEO of ...
The digital transformation picks up steam | #IBMInterConnect
The IBM InterConnect conference at the MGM Grand and Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas wrapped up its final day this afternoon. Guests had a chance to weigh in on many aspects of digitization and how it affects their own platforms, businesses, clients and operations. “It’s been all about the digital transformation,” according to John Furrier, host ...