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Can this healthcare business start a private partner cloud with its flash storage array?
Pat Harkins (pictured, right), chief technical officer of informatics and technology services at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre, believes he’s found a handy way to stretch his organization’s funding dollars and those of its partners. Harkins was joined by Chhandomay Mandal, director of product marketing at Dell EMC, in an interview with Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) and John ...
How Dell EMC differentiates atop its storage arrays with new products
Buyer beware: Storage arrays are not created equal, and even the all-flash systems have marked differences in performance, according to Caitlin Gordon (pictured), director of product marketing at Dell EMC. “Already over 80 percent of net new [Dell EMC VMAX] sales are all-flash,” Gordon told John Furrier (@furrier), host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, and ...
ServiceNow addresses fears about oversharing machine learning data in the cloud
Cloud providers can assure customers their data is theirs alone, but if they bake it into a machine learning model they then serve to their competitors, aren’t they giving away their intellectual property by proxy? “Trying to disseminate that information when you aggregate that and you commingle that data — it has IP implications; it ...
On heels of Cisco, NetApp investments, Datos IO says it is the missing piece to muliti-cloud
Seventy percent of chief information officers have a cloud-first strategy, according to the International Data Corp., but if they think the cloud is a silo-free Shangri-La, they are wrong, according to Peter Smails, vice president of marketing and business development at Datos IO Inc. “We’ve pushed the silo problem from on-prem to the cloud. Clouds don’t talk ...
How Nvidia went from a niche gaming company to a major player in AI
Though the graphics processing unit is suddenly a buzzword in the world of artificial intelligence, this comes only after years of experimentation by graphics processing unit originators’ Nvidia Corp., according to Colette Kress, executive vice president and chief financial officer at Nvidia (pictured). The ACG 2017 Outstanding Growth Award winner grossed $6.9 billion in revenue last ...
Can CIOs lead collaborative cultures rising in Silicon Valley companies?
Maybe it’s the pace at which technologies are scraped and replaced, but companies are finding that pooling insights from all staffers is necessary to stay ahead of the curve, according to Hayley Tabor (pictured), vice president of global industries at Dell EMC. “I think it has a lot to do with the people and the ...
Is software the Miracle-Gro for startups and legacy companies alike?
Technology companies today are more richly webbed to one another than before, which multiplies their paths to expansion — and software is at the heart of this, said Christie Simons (pictured, right), partner and technology industry leader at Deloitte & Touche LLP. Simons spoke about her role with Deloitte, consulting on the development of technology companies, during ...
How Twilio’s quirky developer cloud earned it profits to spare
2016 was a breakout year for cloud platform Twilio. The company added 11,000 active customers and 66 percent in revenue over 2015, according to Lee Kirkpatrick (pictured), chief financial officer of Twilio Inc., who said the company was started “by developers for developers.” And while Kirkpatrick and Twilio recently received the Association for Corporate Growth in ...
How is Virtustream’s custom healthcare cloud improving on regular enterprise cloud?
Can Virtustream Inc.’s new Healthcare Cloud make the custom-cloud dream a reality for medical and science professionals? “It’s a highly regulated environment, highly controlled environment, needs to support audit and compliance, and needs availability, the five 9s [99.999 percent] availability, that Virtustream’s been doing for a long, long time,” said Michael Hoch (pictured), vice president at Virtustream ...
This South African company wants to bring IoT to miners with cloud and telecom
The Internet of Things-telecom relationship is heating up, with a South African outfit aiming to provide end-to-end data solutions with cloud. “We recently became part of the Telkom Group,” said Lawrence Weitzman, managing executive of technology transformation solutions at Business Connexion Pty. Ltd., an information and communications technology provider. “Telkom is the national carrier within ...