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HP mantra : Building, Backing + Servicing | #HPDiscover

Broadcasting all the way from Barcelona, theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante intercepted Seamus Dunne, VP of Technology Services with HP, to talk about the hybrid cloud hype and the financial implications of owning versus renting technology. Introducing their line of work, Seamus declared: “Largely, in our services business we’ve been focusing on data ...

HP Converged Systems : Swimming with Sharks | #HPDiscover

theCUBE co-hosts traveled to Barcelona for the HP Discover 2013 event, broadcasting several keynotes live and interviewing some of the biggest names in the tech world. One of them was Kevin Garrison, Director of Go to Market with HP Converged Systems, whose role at HP is to supervise the converged system route to market, building ...

Applications are key-drivers in SDN : Network must be more responsive | #HPDiscover

Stationed in Barcelona for the HP Discover event, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, joined forces to interview Bethany Mayer, SVP and GM with HP Networking, talking about OpenFlow and SDN. “SDN is exploding and it’s getting bigger by the minute. We have now 25 million ports, 40 of our platforms are OpenFlow enabled, ...

HP cloud : reducing costs, increasing agility + generating new business streams | #HPDiscover

John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, crossed the globe this week to deliver the latest in tech trends from HP Discover in Barcelona, an event much bigger in Europe than it was in Vegas, at least according to Furrier’s observations. Among the first executives to be “cross-examined” during SiliconANGLE’s live broadcast at HP Discover ...

Blade systems offer capacity, scalability + ease of management | #HPDiscover

Traveling all the way to Spain for the HP Discover event, theCUBE team mingled with over 10,000 attendees and is broadcasting live from Fira Barcelona GranVia, providing viewers with ongoing and insightful interviews from top executives and analysts. First on the agenda was Victor Laurel, Director of Strategic Architecture with the recently rebranded Archutech, who ...

AWS: powering the creative process at Atomic Fiction | #reinvent

The last speaker to take the stage at the recently concluded AWS re:Invent Conference in Las Vegas during Day 1 was Kevin Baillie, Co-founder and VFX Supervisor with Atomic Fiction. Kevin’s business path and life story resembles the very nature of his line of work, seeming like something one would only encounter in a movie. ...

Clarity over certainty from Suncorp CEO : Any problem can be solved | #reinvent

During the 2013 edition of AWS re:Invent Conference in Las Vegas, attendees had the chance to witness one of the best Keynotes ever, courtesy of Jeff Smith, the CEO of Suncorp Business Services (Suncorp). Smith is responsible for the Group’s technology, real estate and procurement portfolios. With over thirty years corporate experience and several senior ...

Dropcam: from home videos to the largest video service on the internet | #reinvent

John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, were happy to accommodate Greg Duffy, CEO and Founder of Dropcam, for a short but enlightening interview at AWS re:Invent Conference in Las Vegas. Duffy was invited to talk about Dropcam and the success of his product. “We started Dropcam to find out the answer to a very ...

Implementing stringent security solutions atop AWS | #reinvent

John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, attended the AWS re:Invent 2013 conference in Las Vegas where they broadcasted live a series of interviews with the tech key people of the hour. Munjeet Singh, Principal – Emerging Technologies – Dynamic Infrastructure with Booz Allen Hamilton, joined them in theCUBE, for a chat about the cloud ...

Eucalyptus demos AWS private cloud in a backpack | #reinvent

John Furrier and Stu Miniman continued their quest to present theCUBE viewers as many tech athletes as possible with the introduction of Marten Mickos, CEO of Eucalyptus Systems. Live from AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, theCUBE co-hosts sat down with their guest to discuss private vs public cloud and data portability. Marten didn’t come empty ...