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Big Data Represents Big Business, Not IT. Integration Happens In Context

Broadcasting live from HP Discover 2013 in Las Vegas last week, theCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante welcomed Chris Selland, VP of Marketing for HP Vertica, who leads the global marketing strategy for the HP Vertica Analytics platform. Selland is extremely happy with Vertica’s position in the market, and with its current growth. As ...

“Keeping the Lights On” Is Not Where Technology Needs to be Driven In a Company

From IMB Edge 2013 at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Dave Vellante and his CUBE co-host Stu Miniman, talked with Alex Yost, VP & Business Line Executive at IBM. Yost described clients of today as being interested in investing in their data centers, but most importantly, investing in their business. Customers today are pushing ...

What Role Does Vertica + Moonshot Play in HP’s Converged Infrastructure?

At the recently concluded HP Discover 2013 event, theCube hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante managed to talk to Tom Joyce, SVP & GM for Converged Systems at Hewlett-Packard. Joyce manages this new division that is basically attempting to bring together all efforts pertaining to servers, storage, networking and software development. For such a big ...

F5 Networks, Simplifying the Process of Business Optimization | #HPDiscover

Stu Miniman carried out several of the interviews scheduled for Day 3 of our coverage with theCUBE, live from HP Discover 2013 in Las Vegas, focusing on HP’s Partners. His guests for this segment were John Prego, Director of Global Strategic Partners and Jeff Stathatos, Solutions Architect with F5 Networks, which has been recently granted ...

Big Data Gives IT a Future. Cloud Is Just An Enabler | #HPDiscover

During the last day of HP Discover 2013, Stu Miniman invited Tim Crawford to theCUBE to talk about the IT world, the trends in the business and his insight, from his privileged position as a Strategic Advisor at HP. Tim Crawford’s impression is there are no certain paths to success in this business. Making a ...

Reference Architecture, The Channel + IBM’s “Flexible” Strategy | #IBMEdge

Dave Vellante with co-host Steve Kenniston (Global Storage Evangelist with IBM), interviewed Wilfredo Sotolongo, IBM VP of WW System X Sales, during theCUBE’s live broadcast at the recently concluded IBM Edge 2013 event. Sotolongo was one of the first decision makers on expanding Edge beyond Storage, to bring into the market place the way IBM’s ...

AllDigital Cloud Smarts Makes Anyone a Mobile Broadcaster | #HPDiscover

Dave Vellante, hosting our flagship series of interviews theCUBE, seized the opportunity to speak with two key members of a new company targetting mobile devices, AllDigital, during the second day of HP Discover Conference in Las Vegas. For starters, he drilled Tim Napoleon, Chief Startegist with AllDigital, regarding the whole process of broadcasting to mobile devices and ...

Shadow IT Drives Innovation : HP Envisioning a Hyper-World of Convergence | #HPDiscover

TheCUBE hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante were joined in Las Vegas by Saar Gillai, SVP & GM of HP Converged Cloud, on the second day of HP’s annual Discover event, to talk about convergence in the data center, and other industry trends. Saar Gillai is responsible for driving HP’s cloud portfolio and solutions that ...

Open Ecosystems Will Always Win : OpenStack Paves New Paths | #HPDiscover

Dave Vellante, theCUBE host, interviewed Roger Levy, GM HP Cloud Services, on day two of HP Discover 2013, touching on hot topics such as OpenStack and enterprise cloud trends. OpenStack is a huge piece of the hybrid cloud solution. Over two years ago, HP looked at this promising but unproven technology, made a major commitment ...

Project HAVEn, Moonshot + Converged Infrastructure : HP’s Long View Revealed #HPDiscover

Kicking off day 1 of HP Discover 2013 Live in Las Vegas, John Furrier and Jeff Kelly resumed theCUBE’s flagship interviews series with Greg Battas, CTO Business Intelligence Solutions for HP Convergent Systems, to talk about infrastructure as code and the future of software. Battas begins by talking a bit about the company’s structure, the ...