Stuart Miniman
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ANALYSIS
Analyzing VMware’s past to chart the future of multicloud
In this the 10th year of theCUBE’s coverage of VMworld, I’m going to take a look at the ebb and flow of VMware Inc.’s role in the waves of change in the technology industry and what’s coming next. The rise of virtualization Server virtualization is pervasive today, but in the early days, it took a ...
ANALYSIS
Robots are not people and AI is not taking your job
Amazon.com Inc. is secretive about sharing what happens inside the fulfillment centers that our smiling packages come from. But like how its Amazon Web Services Inc. has given glimpses into the technologies that enable its cloud services, the new re:MARS show (for machine Learning, automation, robotics and space) last week gave a peek behind the curtain of the drivers ...
ANALYSIS
True hybrid cloud moves toward the mainstream
In the beginning, the only “real” cloud was public cloud. There were those that thought that it wasn’t a fit for the enterprise, or perhaps would only be used for test/dev environments. And there were plenty of historical failures for solutions before public cloud to bolster these assertions. But today we know that public cloud ...
ANALYSIS
Cisco builds a software bridge to multicloud
Real transitions do not happen overnight. After attending Cisco Live Europe 2018, I wrote about Cisco Systems Inc.’s digital transformation toward becoming a software company. At Cisco Live Europe 2019, it was impressive to see how much progress has been made toward Cisco’s goal of becoming a software company — and to be known as ...
COMMENTARY
Red Hat post-IBM: embracing change and transformation
One of my favorite fun facts in discussing change is that due to the lifecycle of cells, your body mostly replaces itself every seven to 15 years. Companies often have significant changes in personnel, products and missions, yet like how we think about people, those first impressions are tough to change. Red Hat Inc. is a 25-year-old company that is being acquired ...
VIDEO EXCLUSIVE
Is the $34B acquisition of Red Hat a game changer for IBM?
Yesterday’s $34 billion deal for IBM Corp. to buy Red Hat Inc. was the largest software acquisition in history, even larger than Microsoft Corp.’s deals to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion or GitHub for $7.5 billion. And among technology deals overall, it trailed only Dell Inc.’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC and Avago Technologies Ltd.’s $37 ...
The radical reinvention of the data center
This is a sponsored post commissioned by Dell EMC. Sponsor Posts are identified paid posts that appear on all pages of SiliconANGLE.com, supporting editorial efforts. Premise Chief information officers understand that the operational model of the past – where “keeping the lights on” took a majority of the information technology department’s time – cannot continue. ...
CrowdChat highlights resonance of #serversan
Industry interest in Wikibon’s definition of the new Server SAN architecture has been strong. Top industry podcasts in cloud (The CloudCast), virtualization (VMware Community Roundtable) and storage (SearchStorage) have had me as a guest to talk about the topic. This week, we held a CrowdChat, co-hosted by Howard Marks, Gunnar Berger and myself, on Server ...
Cisco Buys Whiptail : Impact on Storage Partnerships – Breaking Analysis
Flash changes everything. As Wikibon has been discussing for a few years now, flash has a significant impact on system and storage architecture. For a long time, storage consumption was measured in capacity and cost ($/GB). With the advent of flash, performance and latency have become very important (see Storage Cost as a Function of ...
Convergence Pushes Services Up the Stack
Stack solutions like VCE’s Vblock, NetApp’s FlexPod and HP’s Converged Infrastructure look to bust the traditional silos of IT and create pools of resources. While solutions can be shipped as a single SKU (see David Floyer’s Rule of One), it does not mean that the infrastructure is now an iPad with an “instant-on” button. If ...