For our last interview of Day 1 of #OpenStackSummit, John Furrier (Founder, SiliconANGLE) and Jeff Frick (Team member, theCUBE) interviewed Barton George (Director, Developer Programs, Cloud Group at Dell). In the interview we got to learn more about the Sputnik laptop. What was born out of a concept, the Sputnik laptop was driven by the ...

Here is a cool fact for you: the original version of OpenStack was published on Joshua McKenty’s blog. When OpenStack launched Nova, there were some 6,000 lines of code. OpenStack now has over 1.25 million lines, and some 200 man years of work invested into the platform. With no better person to discuss the history ...

The #CloudWars are pitting two very different models against each other, and ServiceMesh is the form-changer that is enlisted in both armies. Enterprise cloud adoption is a transformative shift where the greatest implementation challenges are often more about people and process than technology integration. As a enterprise grade cloud management platform, ServiceMesh services both private ...

NetApp didn’t waste any time making a big announcement at the OpenStack Summit, which kicked off today in Portland. The news was that NetApp submitted a prototype and proposal code for a file-share service. The proposal is broad enough to address a range of file-system types either as an extension to the existing Cinder project ...

Could you imagine spending $150,000 a day to mine for gold? Bitcoin miners are racking up that cost in power consumption a day alone. The ‘Gold Rush’ err… ‘Bitcoin Rush’ is definitely upon us. Bitcoins are “mined” by unlocking blocks of data that “produce a particular pattern when the Bitcoin ‘hash’ algorithm is applied to ...

Ever feel like enough is not ‘enough’? If the current market trend for smart devices is any indicator, we as consumers may never be satisfied. Research firm Gartner expects the market for wearable smart electronics to be a $10 billion industry by 2016. Smartwatches fit right into the wearable smart electronics market, and Microsoft is ...

The Hewlett-Packard ecosystem is a key cog in the Moonshot wheel. So much so in fact, that Mark Potter, Senior VP and GM, Industry Standard Servers and Software, Enterprise Group, at HP spent the bulk of his interview with the guys detailing its involvement in the announcement. While on theCUBE with hosts John Furrier, Founder, ...

Texas Instruments (TI) is one of the four chipset partners with HP on the HP Moonshot 1500 announcement that went live this morning. In his live interview with John Furrier (Founder, SiliconANGLE) and Dave Vellante (Chief Analyst, Wikibon) on theCUBE, Brian Glinsman (VP of Processors, Texas Instrument) discusses everything from time to market reduction and ...

If there is one takeaway you’ll have from our coverage of HP’s Moonshot announcement it is this: less is more.  In an emerging market for software-defined infrastructure we hear AMD’s Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Server Business Suresh Gopalakrishnan, who was a guest on theCube today during HP’s Moonshot launch event. Hosts John Furrier (Founder, ...

Mike Major, VP of Corporate Marketing, Applied Micro joined theCube hosts John Furrier, Founder, SiliconANGLE and Dave Vellante, Chief Analyst, Wikibon, to talk more about HP’s recently unveiled Moonshot announcement, and their partnership.  Last week Applied Micro announced the first 64-bit, ARM-based chip. In Layman’s Terms, it mimics the entire server rack on one chip. ...