When Cisco released the Nexus 1000V Switch for VMware vSphere, an essentials edition was offered under a freemium model, while a paid edition provided more security, scale and other features. The core value proposition here is clear. However, the same can not be said of the Nexus 1000V Switch for Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM), an ...

Some large customers that adopted hybrid cloud models to avoid the lock-in of outsourcing arrangements may find themselves trapped again if they don’t take control of the relationship with cloud providers, an EMC executive said last week at the VMworld conference in San Francisco. Brokering hybrid cloud without contestability between providers carries risks, said Ted ...

Developers have long dreamed of a world in which applications define their own infrastructure needs. But VMware, Inc. CTO and networking general manager Martin Casado takes a contrarian view. Casado that the app isn’t going to even care about the infrastructure in the long term because the infrastructure software layer will provide a “Utopian” data ...

If you ask them, Citrix Systems, Inc. dominates the virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) market because it understood the polar differences of server and desktop virtualization early on. The company reached a point where the virtualized desktop was equivalent to that of a standalone. However, there’s a dam in the VDI market, and that is cost. ...

With hyper converge, hybrid Cloud and end user computing bringing back infrastructure interest in a new way, it’s almost as if the 1980’s style of mainframe architecture has come back… with a twist, and without the mullet. Although a lot has changed in technology since that time, Dell Inc. VP & CTO of Engineered Solutions ...

According to Coho Data Inc.’s CTO & Co-Founder Andy Warfield, the thing that really struck him and his team early on with PCIe Flash, in particular, was that it was quickly going in a similar direction as the CPU did 10 years ago, where it was an incredibly expensive resource to buy and operationally manage. ...

adMarketplace is currently working on prescriptive analytics that is set to help the company anticipate what users might need in the future, even before they ask for it. In an interview with theCUBE at the Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) Vertica Big Data Conference, adMarketplace Director of Data Infrastructure Raj Yakkali described his company’s project as the next ...

In gaming, analysis is critical and needs to take place in real-time. You would think the pressure of real-time analytics would cause stress for something as complex as video gaming, but that’s not the case with Zynga. At Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s Vertica Big Data Conference last week, Zynga’s Yuko Yamazaki, General Manager, and Joanne Ho, Engineering ...

With increasing attention on the business side of tech innovation, the world seems to be awaiting the rise of the first billion-dollar Big Data company. A recent $50 million dollar investment from Hewlett-Packard (HP) put Hortonworks a step forward in its goal to go public. Cloudera is on pace to hit the $100 million revenue ...

The claim to fame behind Hewlett-Packard, Co.’s Vertica platform for Big Data management is high performance. More than once during SiliconANGLE’s live coverage of HP’s Big Data conference last week, Vertica was likened to a Ferrari supercar. But high-speed, high-performance vehicles aren’t easily accessible or “driveable” for everyone. So how can customers who just want ...