Royal Philips is a 140-year-old legacy company currently undergoing a massive tech transformation to standardize the end-to-end processes across all of its healthcare, lighting and consumer lifestyle businesses. In an interview with John Furrier and Dave Vellante at the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Big Data Conference last week week, Philips’ VP of Technology, Alan Nance, visited theCUBE ...

With a background in sociology, Tom Davenport, a Distinguished Professor in Management and Information Technology at Babson College and author of 19 books on management practices and analytics, thinks about technology in terms of what it means for humans. At the Hewlett-Packard (HP) Vertica Big Data Conference this week, he joined theCUBE’s John Furrier and ...

Even though there is still some IPv4 address space available, the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN) free pool is now depleting. So, if you’re a network operator or a content company, it’s time to start considering a migration to IPv6. In an interview with John Furrier and Jeff Frick at this year’s Peer 2.0 ...

The CIO of a major health care firm speculated last week that the CIO job itself could disappear over the next 10 years, with responsibility accruing to the emerging role of Chief Data Officer. James, Noga, VP and CIO of Partners HealthCare. , said CIOs will have less responsibility for managing infrastructure complexities as more ...

For some people, data governance is still a little unclear in terms of what it is and how it’s applied to the enterprise. In an interview with Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly at this year’s MIT CDOIQ Symposium in Cambridge, MA, Tina Rosario, VP of Global Operations for SAP America, offered a brief explanation of ...

Life insurance products, investment software applications and actuarial grids are just a few things that Pacific Life Insurance manages on its network. With so many moving parts, the company is very particular when it comes to partner selection, and HP turned out to be the right fit for this organization. In a joint interview for ...

A recent Wikibon survey revealed that, of 300 practitioners with knowledge of analytics and Big Data, 61 percent said that their organization shifted workloads from a traditional data warehouse or mainframe to Hadoop. Another 34 percent said they were going to do it within the next six months. So, in total, 95 percent of respondents ...

There’s a belief that the future of Cloud is compute, and there’s new evidence that the future has arrived. We are now moving away from the server age, into an era of compute. In an interview with John Furrier and Dave Vellante for theCUBE at this year’s HP Discover in Las Vegas, Antonio Neri, Senior ...

Software-defined storage (SDS) is currently one of the hottest interests for today’s IT market, with ample uptake opportunity in the small to medium business (SMB) arena. At HP Discover in Las Vegas this month, Craig Nunes, VP of Marketing & Alliance for HP Storage, sat down with John Furrier and Dave Vellante in an interview ...

For customers who have an account on-premise, renegotiating a security approach, policy, standard and SLAs when a service provider partners with public a Cloud provider can be a big problem. At HP Discover in Las Vegas earlier this month, Seamus Dunne, VP of HP Cloud & Data Center Support Services for HP, joined John Furrier ...