The Internet of Things (IoT) has so much potential, and according to Cisco Customer Solutions Architect Daniel Bogda, this is “where science fiction, where magic start to really become marketable products.” He believes that we now have the tools, technology and processing power to achieve a lot of promises associated with the IoT. In an ...

Smart home tech is set to add $1.9 trillion to the global economy by 2020, according to Gartner Research. With recent innovations for networking and devices, the battle for supremacy on the smart home landscape between Apple Inc., Google Inc., Samsung Group and Amazon.com Inc. is starting to heat up. Here, we take a look ...

NetApp Inc.’s company history is around making inherently unreliable media enterprise class, and NetApp is now working to extend those capabilities. The company is bringing NetApp to Flash and also extending into cloud infrastructure. In an interview for theCUBE at Oracle OpenWorld 2014, NetApp Director of Virtualization and Cloud Solutions Marketing Adam Fore talked about new ...

  An early adopter of CrowdChat, Dan Hushon has found a variety of business use cases for the public hashtag forum. As CTO of the Global Technology Office for Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Hushon uses CrowdChat about once a month, engaging people and employees in conversation. In an interview for theCUBE at Oracle OpenWorld 2014, ...

InterWorks, Inc. started doing work with Tableau Software, Inc. seven years ago and witnessed its evolution from, as its competitors used to describe it, a tool not fit for the enterprise to one that has garnered a kind of following that could rival that of Apple, Inc. In an interview for theCUBE at the Tableau ...

When ReBuild Houston, an initiative to improve drainage and street infrastructure, was voted in on November 2010, the Texas city was tasked with installing a new billing system for the Public Utility Division’s 700,000 customers within six months. In an interview for theCUBE at Inforum 2014, City of Houston CIO Charles Thompson and Management Consultant Brian ...

The ability to scale storage in the scientific realm is essential. As the instrumentation and technology used to capture data increases in megapixel resolution, that drastically implies an increase in the amount of storage required to archive all that data, and then ultimately give a representation to the scientists. In an interview for theCUBE at ...

According to one executive, most people don’t quite understand value engineering. In an interview for theCUBE at the recently concluded Inforum conference, Infor, Inc. Chief Solutions Officer & SVP of Value Engineering Riaz Raihan explained the concepts behind value engineering, and how customers can use it to ensure true business value from their software investments. Getting Started ...

In addition to managing the massive amounts of data for predictive maintenance of its luxury cars and to optimize winning performances for its Formula 1 team, another major data set that Ferrari S.p.A has to deal with is commercial. As an international organization, Ferrari spreads commercial and technical assistance information across 62 countries. In doing ...

Operating in its home base of Canada, the U.S. and Asia, and with about $640 billion (CAD) in assets at the end of Q2, Manulife Financial Corporation needed a boost to its international operations, thanks to the global escalation of scrutiny over financial services combined with growth in Asia. To that end, Manulife looked for a ...