Tavis J. Hampton


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Brocade Tech Day: Internet2 and the Future of Broadband Networking

Wednesday, SiliconAngle founder and The Cube host John Furrier and Wikibon senior analyst Stuart Miniman sat down with Rob Vietzke, VP of network services at Internet2 and talked about what Internet2 is has been doing and how Brocade is working with it. Internet2, Vietzke explained, was formed by universities in 1996 to ensure that there ...

Pull Requests Add Social Element to Stash 1.3

Stash 1.3 Beta has introduced a new “Pull Requests” feature that adds a social element to the Git repository management software. With Pull Requests, developers can review changes to a branch, discuss the changes with one another, and make modifications. With a pull request button, you simply select the branch you are modifying, select the ...

EMC and Alpine Data Labs Unveil In-Database Predictive Analytics

EMC has joined forces with Alpine Data Labs to harness the power of EMC Greenplum with Alpine’s web-based predictive analytics software. The new agreement will also see the two companies sign on for a formal reseller relationship. EMC is calling the technology the first “in-database” solution for big data predictive analytics. The new application will ...

Hortonworks’ YARN Aims to Revolutionize Hadoop Data Processing

Hortonworks is publishing a series of blog posts on its website that explain the basics and finer details of Apache Hadoop YARN. Those who are curious about YARN or want to understand its significance to Hadoop will find the blog posts beneficial. Furthermore, it should be of benefit to those who might not have even ...

HP Releases Open Source webOS Beta for Developers

It has been a long and arduous road for webOS. The operating system that was once heralded as the savior of the dying Palm product line nearly almost died itself. But HP is attempting to breathe new life into webOS, and that began with the release of its code under an open source license. The ...

VMware Horizon Offers Integrated Mobile Workforce Platform

At VMworld 2012, VMware announced a number of new products and services. Among them is the new VMware Horizon Suite, which allows customers to connect to their corporate cloud workspace using any device from anywhere they happen to be. VMware Horizon is designed for users in what VMware calls the post-PC era. These users are ...

Why VMware Is Trying to Join OpenStack

The news from VMworld that VMware wants to join OpenStack has likely confused many. It would be easy to argue that VMware is a competitor to OpenStack and should not be fraternizing with the enemy. Despite the misgivings those of us on the outside looking in might have, VMware seems to have a plan, one ...

NetApp’s Cynthia Stoddard Talks Agile Infrastructure

Yesterday, at SiliconAngle’s continuous coverage of VMworld 2012 in San Francisco, the Cube hosts Dave Vellante of Wikibon and John Furrier, founder of SiliconAngle, spoke with NetApp CIO Cynthia Stoddard about some of her responsibilities as the CIO of a major tech company and her vision of agile infrastructure. An organization is only as agile ...

EMC’s Guy Churchward and Stephen Manley Discuss VDP

At VMworld 2012, The Cube host Dave Vellante had a chance to talk with Guy Churchward, EMC SVP of BRS Engineering, and Stephen Manley, EMC CTO of Backup Recovery Systems. They discussed some of the innovations from EMC in the realm of virtualized backup and recovery technology. VMware and EMC have partnered to jointly develop ...

Tarkan Maner Discusses Role of Dell Wyse in Cloud Future

VMworld 2012 is in full swing, and yesterday the Cube hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante had a chance to sit down with the energetic CEO of Dell Wyse, Tarkan Maner. The topic of discussion was how Dell Wyse plans to redefine the virtual desktop business. Maner explained that Wyse, founded in 1981, was the ...