HP has the ability to run Red Hat’s distribution on its Helion OpenStack platform and welcomes a certification for it. So, why won’t Red Hat certify it on HP? At HP Discover 2014 in Las Vegas earlier this month, Saar Gillai, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for HP Cloud, joined John Furrier and ...

Many consider support services to be just about break/fix, but according to Scott Weller, SVP & GM of Technology Services Support for HP, it’s so much more than that for customers. At HP Discover early this month, he sat down with theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante to talk about the use of support ...

There seems to be some confusion lingering about who really is number one in servers. In an interview with John Furrier at Hadoop Summit 2014, Cisco’s Raghu Nambiar and Todd Brannon went on the record saying Cisco was number one in servers in North America. To shed some light on this claim, Jim Ganthier, VP ...

Though the event itself lacked the level of flare often witnessed at trade shows, Hewlett-Packard’s handful of potentially game-changing announcements at HP Discover 2014 in Las Vegas earlier this month were impressive enough to HP evangelists and supporters. In a final wrap session for the conference, theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante offer their ...

At HP Discover 2013 in Barcelona last December, Robert Youngjohns, SVP & General Manager at HP Autonomy, shared with us his vision to “have tens of thousands of developers thinking about how to leverage IDOL OnDemand.” Building on this vision, HP Software has been holding global hackathons allowing developers to leverage the platform’s capabilities. At ...

Jeskell is a nearly 20-year old IBM hardware and software reseller that also develops and sells solutions in the federal marketplace. In fact, 70 percent of its business is federal. In an interview for theCUBE held at IBM Edge last month, Jeskell’s VP of Business Development, Bill Jones, talked to Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick ...

Creating an agile infrastructure is the key to optimizing Cloud, Big Data, analytics, mobile and social to create composable business services and drive real-time decision-making to obtain new levels of customer engagement. At IBM Edge last month, the day one general session reviewed the subject of why infrastructure matters. Continuing on this topic, day two focused ...

With new performance enhancements and capabilities, like virtualization and flash, the modern era of infrastructure is upon us. Coders saw their glory, but systems guys are back and building large-scale infrastructures in a modern way. In his return to theCUBE at IBM Edge, Sebastian Krause, VP of Global Storage Sales for IBM, sat down with ...

The history of innovation is wrought with stories of discoveries and creations that were never truly appreciated until well after their debut. ScaleIO is one of those innovations. It didn’t have much recognition when it first arrived on the scene. Now, ScaleIO is an industry category and also the hottest thing in database architecture. “It’s ...

With Hewlett-Packard’s recent announcement of HP Helion, there are questions lingering about how the company can compete in the public cloud market, while using OpenStack as a way to get into the enterprise. In this interview with theCUBE’s John Furrier and Dave Vellante at EMC World, Jason Mendenhall, EVP of cloud at Switch, discusses the ...