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Brooklyn Nets reinvent the 3-pointer with data analytics
Last year, Infor Inc. took a retro step (for a software company) and set up Hook and Loop Digital, a creative agency with brick-and-mortar digs in New York City. The H&L team strives to transform clients — from NBA teams to shoe retailers — with digital user experiences that are anything but retro. “We’re working ...
Women in tech, political speakers to tackle global terrorism at Inforum 2017
Infor Inc. started the Women’s Infor Network to knock down obstacles keeping women from reaching their full potential within the company. But WIN’s session at Inforum 2017 in New York tomorrow, titled “The Change Makers: Closing technology, societal and political gaps,” will go above and beyond its mission statement. “The only WIN or female aspect of the session ...
Will the chief product officer grow up to be the chief data officer?
Digital transformation is introducing more than new technologies to enterprises. Data monetization and digital consumption models are bringing business people and techies into closer collaboration. While they stretch to adopt methods and tools like virtualization, cloud computing and big data analytics, individuals themselves must grow to match the changes. Many demands of digitization have fallen ...
Will the government give regular companies authority to penalize cyberattackers?
Don’t wait for the government to solve the cybersecurity problem, said Stephen Hadley (pictured), former U.S. National Security adviser, principal of RHG Strategic Consulting Firm and adviser to Nutanix Inc. “I think the [technology] industry needs to define the solutions,” Hadley told Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. (* Disclosure below.) ...
Columbia professor’s ‘strategic IT’ tips for staying ahead of disruption
Warning to companies who think copying the latest successful startups will keep them relevant: “If you’re trying to catch up, it’s already over,” according to Art Langer (pictured), professor and director of the Center for Technology Management at Columbia University. How does a company outpace disruption? They must rally the information technology troops in new ways, Langer ...
Dell EMC and Nutanix forge ahead in HCI hybrid cloud
Dell EMC, Dell Technologies Inc.’s infrastructure group, has taken a sharp turn since Chad Sakac (pictured, right), president of the Converged Platforms and Solutions Division, originally described Nutanix Inc. as a “niche corner case for VDI [virtual desktop infrastructure] only.” Stu Miniman (@stu), joined by Dave Vellante (@dvellante), his co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, read the ...
Can skeptics be swayed by Dell EMC’s software-defined testing?
Server-agnostic, software-defined storage sounds like a breeze compared to traditional, clunky arrays; perhaps this is why some might feel it’s too good to be true. “I think the first hurdle we need to pass is just the challenge for most industry veterans in particular to make the shift from the built-like-a-tank, traditional storage arrays — ...
Nutanix calls shotgun on multicloud with control pane, but is it a false start?
Nutanix Inc. is a big fish in the hyperconverged infrastructure market, but it’s now veering into multicloud — a much larger pond than HCI. Can it float there? Nutanix tops revenue (or trails a hair behind Dell EMC, as one report shows) in HCI that packs hardware basics and integrated software in one appliance. And while Nutanix’s revenue has ...
More to HCI than meets the eye? Compressed differentiation in storage explained
Hyperconverged Infrastructure as the linchpin of hybrid cloud? Sounds far-fetched to some, but Julia Palmer (pictured), director of research at Gartner Inc., says there’s often more to HCI appliances than meets the eye. “I don’t think it’s there today, but I think it has great potential,” Palmer told Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, ...
Nutanix and Google meet in the middle in cloud-on-prem market battle
Nutanix Inc. announced its new partnership with Google Cloud this week in the nick of time for the Nutanix .NEXT day one keynote in Washington, D.C., where speakers aptly zeroed in on multi-cloud. Multi-cloud and cloud in general are actually means to an end, not ends in themselves, Nutanix Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Dheeraj Pandey (pictured, left), told ...