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Fusion-io mission : Faster applications, less infrastructure | #OCPSummit

John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, took off to San Jose, California this week for the fifth edition of Open Compute Project Summit. They caught up with Gary Orenstein, the CMO at Fusion-io, discussing his company’s new solutions and the trends of 2014, including Bitcoin (see the entire segment below). “It’s a great time to ...

Teen tech athletes reinventing the world | #OCPSummit

It’s not everyday that theCUBE co-hosts get to interview teenagers, but for this edition at the Open Compute Project Summit in San Jose, California, John Furrier and Dave Vellante had the chance to catch up with Thomas Sohmers, CEO and founder of REX Computing, not to mention a genuine wunderkind. Last year Sohmers received a two-year, $100,000 ...

Hardware without workloads is irrelevant : How Open Compute differs from OpenStack | #OCPSummit

From the fifth edition of the Open Compute Project Summit in San Jose, California, theCUBE veterans John Furrier and Dave Vellante interviewed Cole Crawford, Executive Director with the Open Compute Foundation, debating the trends and establishing ways to keep the market free and unrigged. Likening technology to the very core of the American soul, Crawford, ...

HP Vertica methodology : Store, Explore + Serve | #HPDiscover

TheCUBE booth in Fira GranVia Barcelona was graced for a couple of minutes with the presence of Colin Mahony, VP & GM of HP Vertica. Attending the HP Discover 2013, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, took the opportunity to interview the who’s who in the tech world, unveiling the latest trends and finding ...

Execution + focus : Paramount for HP’s success in cloud, say analysts | #HPDiscover Exclusive

After three days of interviewing top executives and thought leaders of HP in Barcelona, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, sat down to discuss the impressions post HP Discover 2013.   They analyzed both the show and the marketplace and these are their editorial commentaries: “Everytime you are analyzing HP as a whole is ...

Adapting at the pace of innovation : HP servers are software-defined | #HPDiscover

Stationed in Barcelona for three days full of tech talk and geekery, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, happily welcomed Jim Ganthier, VP of Global Marketing for HP Servers, getting him talking about HP industry standard products as well as about HP’s services and solutions. Furrier began by asking for an update on what’s ...

Why decide? Hybrid cloud lets you do “This” and “That” | #HPDiscover

During Day 2 of HP Discover 2013 in Barcelona, John Furrier, theCUBE host and SiliconANGLE co-founder, managed to talk with Saar Gillai, SVP & GM of HP Converged Cloud, about OpenStack and – what else? – the cloud. Saar has appeared in several other features from theCUBE, and his segment was expected with great anticipation. ...

“Can you debunk the myth that HP is not really in the cloud business?” | #HPDiscover

As John Furrier and Dave Vellante always say, “software is the key to the future.” Therefore, they were extremely pleased to welcome Jerome Labat to theCUBE. Jerome is the CTO with HP Software, and he was interviewed at the HP Discover 2013 Conference, event taking place in Barcelona. “Traditionally, HP has been a major hardware ...

HP Integrity Servers : The old is new again | #HPDiscover

Dave Vellante and John Furrier brought theCUBE to Europe, covering the 2013 edition of HP Discover Conference in Barcelona. Broadcasting live from Fira Barcelona GranVia, theCUBE co-hosts put the spotlight on the top tech athletes attending the event, covering several current trends in the tech business. One of the key guests, Randy Meyer, VP & ...

HP + Broadcom : Staying ahead of the market, preventing customer lock-in | #HPDiscover

For the HP Discover event in Barcelona, John Furrier and Dave Vellante, theCUBE co-hosts, broadcast wall-to-wall coverage of today’s hot topics, getting the angles on infrastructure, software, services, HP’s overall strategy, server and connectivity, storage and networking. For this segment, Vellante sat down with Greg Scherer, VP of Server and Storage Strategy with Broadcom, and ...