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Oracle + EMC : Customers are “betting mission-critical business” on Joint Tech | #oow13

From the Moscone Center in San Francisco, John Furrier and Stu Miniman continue to broadcast theCUBE interviews during Day 2 of Oracle OpenWorld 2013. Their guest, Dorian Naveh, Senior Director Technology Alliances with EMC, described the event as a culmination of 15 years of strong partnership. “It’s a long-standing, very collaborative, complex partnership,” said Naveh. ...

Attunity: Smaller Footprint, Bigger Performance | #oow13

TheCUBE co-hosts are broadcasting live from Oracle OpenWorld 2013, where they tracked down the key people in the business in order to filter the hype from the facts. Yesterday Jeff Kelly and John Furrier interviewed Lawrence Schwartz, VP of Marketing with Attunity, talking primarily about Big Data, the belle du jour of tech (full video ...

The Dead Weight of Disks Has Finally Fallen | #oow13

Brian Bulkowski, Founder and CTO of Aerospike, stopped by theCUBE at Oracle OpenWorld 2013, to be interviewed by John Furrier and David Floyer. Asked by Furrier for his take on in-memory, Bulkowski jumped at the occasion to boast his company’s support, right from the moment Aerospike was founded. Five years ago they were sure that ...

Data Security Is No Longer An Afterthought for EMC + Oracle | #oow13

theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante are broadcasting live from Oracle OpenWorld 2013 this week,  streaming from the floor of the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Caitlin Gordon, Sr. Product Marketing Manager with EMC Backup was invited to theCUBE to discuss the state of data protection at Oracle. “Oracle Backup is probably the biggest ...

QLogic Capitalizing 2 Trends: Technology + End Users | #oow13

Live from the Moscone Center in San Francisco, theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman kicked off Day 2 with Vikram Karvat, VP of Marketing with QLogic at Oracle OpenWorld 2013. “There’s a lot of excitement and there’s a lot happening in the industry, both with databases and the enterprise in general, as well as around ...

Oracle Wants to “Weave the database back into hardware,” Says Analyst Ray Wang | #oow13

theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante, are chatting it up with top tech athletes as we broadcast live this week from Oracle OpenWorld 2013, in San Francisco. Streaming from the Moscone Center, Furrier and Vellante provide exclusive interviews, debating the hot topics of the day and analyzing the trends in the industry. Ray Wang, ...

The Data Transition Fails When IT-Led Initiatives Don’t Work with Business | #oow13

Dave Vellante, Chief Analyst at Wikibon, broadcasted live from the Moscone Center in San Francisco this week, hosting theCUBE at Oracle Open World 2013.  Today he spoke with Pat Sullivan (Managing Director – Oracle Practice, Accenture) and Derek Steelberg (Global Managing Director of Oracle Business, Accenture) on current market trends. Vellante introduced Accenture as a company ...

Violin Memory Speaks on Oracle’s New In-Memory, a Method Used for Years | #oow13

theCUBE co-hosts Dave Vellante and David Floyer sat down with Violin Memory VP of Production Narayan Venkat to discuss the world of flash. Floyer, the co-Founder and CTO of research firm Wikibon, has extensive expertise in the flash sector, and one of his recent studies showed that optimizing your infrastructure stack and spending money on ...

DataStax: Our Customers Are Using NoSQL To Make Money | #oow13

Dave Vellante and Jeff Kelly, theCUBE co-hosts, welcomed Robin Schumacher, VP of Products with DataStax. The interview took place at the famed Moscone Center in San Francisco, for the Oracle OpenWorld 2013 Conference. DataStax has been around for about three years, “we drive Cassandra from the open source stack standpoint, and we also create, develop ...

Congress + Economists Must Learn to Communicate Data More Effectively | #tcc13

From the 2013 Tableau Customer Conference in Washington DC, theCUBE co-hosts Jeff Kelly, Principal Research Contributor with Wikibon, and Dave Vellante, Wikibon Senior Analyst, sat down with Jon Schwabish, Principal Analyst with the Congressional Budget Office, talking about projections and trends in the field of economics. For those unfamiliar with the institution, Jon Schwabish was ...