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Can cloud alone speed up the public sector’s lead-footed pace?
Is cloud infrastructure really a magic wand to speed up government’s frustrating, slow-motion pace? Wouldn’t that require a cultural change as well? Never mind; cloud by itself transforms culture, according to Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio. (* Disclosure below.) “I think what people miss on why cloud is so important is ...
Here’s why 32-year-old hardware company Lenovo keeps saying it’s not legacy
Lenovo Group Ltd., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. and Dell EMC bring to mind the phrase “legacy hardware,” so why does Lenovo keep telling us it’s not legacy? It seems the answer is in the way the company defines legacy hardware: a server-network-storage combo that is very specifically designed and difficult to change, which Lenovo is ...
Can Lenovo’s phones and PCs give it a surprise one-up in digital transformation?
Lenovo Group Ltd. is darting in all directions, partnering in software-defined enterprise infrastructure, while its mobile phones and laptops are still on sale at the local Best Buy. Is there a method to the Chinese tech giant’s madness? “We’ve seen a lot of splitting of consumer and enterprise — [Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.] cut those ...
Open-source variety is a blessing and a curse to enterprises, says Qubole
Instead of hobbling together open-source projects, why don’t failing enterprise big data teams just buy a proprietary product guaranteed to deliver the results they seek? “In the big data space, it’s hard to avoid going down the open-source path,” said David Hsieh (pictured), chief marketing officer of Qubole Inc., a cloud-native big data platform. Open-source projects have ...
Are instant, big data apps ready for primetime?
Docker Inc. made its container technology for distributed software applications an overnight hit by putting an easy button on them. Can DataTorrent Inc., founded by Yahoo engineers, do the same for analytics? “There’s no getting away from the fact that this is big data, and it’s complex systems,” said Nathan Trueblood (pictured, right), vice president of product ...
More ways to misread customers: the problem with more data for marketers
Why are marketing conversion rates stuck at one percent despite increasing customer touchpoints and analysis tools? More channels through which to interact with a customer might make it harder to follow him or her through a single “journey,” according to Sri Raghavan (pictured), senior global product marketing manager at Teradata Corp. “We have to go to ‘place ...
Can ‘application-defined networking’ fix glitchy apps and save money?
Code and compute might be changed around to improve end-users’ experience, but the network is the network, right? Actually, the application-first ethos is spreading to networking now with Software-Defined Wide Area Network, according to Davis Johnson (pictured), vice president and head of the U.S. public sector at Riverbed Technology Inc. “We call it application-defined networking,” Johnson ...
Does IoT need private storage clouds? Analysts on Pure Storage’s big data play
With Pure Storage Inc.’s recent grabs at artificial intelligence and big data software markets, it might soon have to drop “storage” from its name, according to Matt Kixmoeller, vice president of marketing and product management at Pure Storage. Recalling Kixmoeller’s prediction during an interview at the Pure//Accelerate event this week in San Francisco, California, Dave Vellante (@dvellante) (pictured) and David ...
With CIA credentials, can Amazon repeat commercial success in the public sector?
However Amazon Web Services Inc. may struggle in selling cloud to glacier-paced government agencies, at least one of those that readers may have heard of — the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency — just vouched for it at the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, D.C. CIA Chief Information Officer John Edwards said from the conference ...
Startups snub Cloud Foundry, but legacy money talks, say analysts
Traditional enterprises trying to serve better software before some fresh-from-college coders Uberize — aka disrupt — them are turning out to be cash cows for Pivotal Software Inc.’s Cloud Foundry Foundation, its cloud-native platform for deploying and operating modern applications. This is evident in stories from some of the users at this week’s Cloud Foundry Summit ...