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The Best of the Private Cloud, with the Flexibility of the Public Cloud
Metacloud might not be one you recognize by name, but the company is one you should definitely get to know. The CEO, Sean Lynch stopped by #theCUBE on Day 3 of #OpenStack Summit 2013 to talk with co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Frick about Metacloud, and its stance on giving clients the best of both ...
OpenStack Lives Up to the Hype, If You Ask Rackspace [And We Did]
I was personally looking forward all week to Jim Curry – Senior Vice President & General Manager, Private Cloud & OpenStack Community, Rackspace stopping by #theCUBE to sit down with the guys at the #OpenStack Summit. In his interview with co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Frick, he really dug into what OpenStack meant to Rackspace ...
IT Renaissance Brings Power to End Users, says Marc Chenn CEO of Saltstack
The community is a vital part of any software company, heck any company period. Marc Chenn (CEO & Co-Founder, Saltstack) lives that message of community making a company. Don’t believe me? Saltstack was named to Github’s Top 10 for community contributors, just behind OpenStack in 2012. Chenn said that Saltstack has roughly 400 active contributors ...
LIVE: Nokia Lumia Sales Break Records, but Should Win8 Remain the Priority?
As first quarter smartphone and tablet reports for 2013 roll out, what do they tell us about who’s winning the smartphone race? Is iOS still the darling child? How much, by sheer numbers is Android ahead of iOS? Nokia’s latest quarterly earnings report reveals some promising news for the Finnish smartphone maker and its continuous ...
LIVE: Project Savanna Virtualizing Hadoop. Your Move, VMWare
Project Savanna was quite a draw this week at the #OpenStack Summit. Originally started by Mirantis, the largest independent vendor of OpenStack services, Project Savanna now includes Hortonworks, one of the largest open source distributors of Apache Hadoop, and Red Hat, one of the largest Linux and open source technology providers. There have been considerable ...
LIVE: OpenStack Puts AWS on Alert : Finally Ready for Prime Time?
Only but a few years old, OpenStack has burst on the scene as an open source alternative to Amazon’s AWS and a co-opeter with the likes of IBM, VMware and other large enterprise players. The OpenStack Summit — which once had a budget of $15,000 and 75 people had to be significantly coerced into coming ...
Start-Up CloudByte Takes a Bite Out of the Cloud Storage Cookie
We don’t cover only big-time heavy-hitters on #theCUBE — startups get lots of love too. Host Jeff Frick got to chat with CTO and Founder of Cloudbyte, Felix Xavier at the annual #OpenStack Summit 2013 today. Jumping right into it’s first OpenStack event, Cloudbyte had big news on Monday, announcing integration with OpenStack block storage ...
Project Savanna: The Key to Deploying Hadoop in OpenStack
Mirantis believes in a web of very open platforms, and not being locked into any specific one. Adrian Ionel, CEO of Mirantis stopped by #theCUBE at #OpenStack Summit yesterday to talk about the Project Savanna announcement with co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Frick. Project Savanna is a Hadoop on OpenStack project that was originally started ...
Hortonworks Shows Out at #OpenStack Summit, While Cloudera Stays at Home
Hadoop is a powerful source of adoption for #OpenStack according to Jim Walker, Director of Product Marketing at Hortonworks. He stopped by #theCUBE yesterday during our live broadcast from the fifth annual OpenStack Summit in Portland to talk with co-hosts John Furrier and Jeff Frick about a big announcement Hortonworks had with Mirantis and Red ...
HP: You Get From the Open Source Community What You Put In
HP Cloud Services Vice President and General Manager Roger Levy stopped by #theCUBE at the #OpenStack Summit 2013 yesterday, to talk with co-hosts John Furrier and David Floyer about everything HP is doing in the cloud. HP sees winning DevOps as bringing automation into the private and public clouds and providing DevOps tools. HP’s vision ...
