Alan McStravick


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Actian Vortex details its new design, claims fastest database engine on the market | #HadoopSummit

At this week’s #HadoopSummit, Actian promised to make waves with their teaser hashtag campaign #CutHadoopLoose. It appears, with their Vector product, they have done just that. Professor Peter Boncz, Senior Research Scientist at the University of Amsterdam and adviser to Actian discussed how the columnar database he, along with his PhD student, designed is a ...

Hyperscale’s new kids have a few tricks to teach the Enterprise | #IBMEdge

Companies like Amazon, eBay, Facebook and Google have pioneered the notion of a hyperscale operation. They have mastered available technologies to solve problems specific to their day-to-day operation. With these and other companies as the example states Swamy Kocherlakota, Managing Director of Infrastructure and Architecture for BNY Mellon, a large financial services organization, enterprise of ...

Without embracing containers, OpenStack will fail to gain traction | #openstacksummit

Early in on day 3 of SiliconANGLE’s live coverage of this week’s #openstacksummit, broadcast from Atlanta on theCUBE, co-hosts Stu Miniman and John Furrier welcomed the OpenShift Community Manager for Red Hat, Diane Mueller, to discuss her work with the Platform as a Service project, OpenShift. Mueller last appeared on theCUBE at last year’s OpenStack ...

Viability of OpenStack pushing it to acceptance tipping point | #openstacksummit

As we are wrapping up this week’s #openstacksummit, it has become clear that much of the purpose behind the event is to shore up the OpenStack brand from both a business and technological perspective. Joining SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Stu Miniman to discuss this, the ascendance of the DevOps culture and why transitioning ...

Where will OpenStack be a year from now? | #openstacksummit

The kickoff for day two of live coverage of this week’s #openstacksummit found the co-hosts of SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, John Furrier and Stu Miniman, discussing insights gained from day one’s coverage, expectations for today’s coverage and the future of the the OpenStack platform. What’s clear is that Miniman and Furrier share distinctly opposing viewpoints on where ...

Metacloud offers SaaS-based OpenStack | #openstacksummit

Just before the end of the live broadcast of day one of this week’s #openstacksummit from Atlanta, SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE had a last minute guest. The CEO of Metacloud and alumnus of theCUBE, Sean Lynch, dropped in to share with co-hosts Stu Miniman and John Furrier the successes and general goings on with his company since ...

OpenStack project possibly on track to implode? | #openstacksummit

At the end of day 1 of this week’s #openstacksummit, broadcast live from Atlanta on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE, co-hosts John Furrier and Stu Miniman reflected on the full complement of guests who joined them at the desk today to share their thoughts and experiences with the OpenStack platform. It was Furrier who noted his first impressions ...

OpenStack Foundation primed to grow cloud into a success | #openstacksummit

In a very interesting segment, the founder of SiliconANGLE and host of theCUBE, John Furrier, welcomed Eileen Evans and Monty Taylor. Evans serves as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for HP Cloud, as well as being a founding board member of the OpenStack Foundation. Taylor, a Distinguished Technologist with HP, is also a founding ...

Public, private or hybrid cloud? There can be only one | #openstacksummit

In continuing coverage of the #openstacksummit conference being held this week in Atlanta, SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE welcomed Rackspace Evangelista Niki Acosta and Lead Cloud Evangelist Scott Sanchez. Rackspace, the open Cloud and managed solutions purveyor known for their trademarked fanatical support, has been one of the most vocal proponents of OpenStack. Before delving into what the ...

StackStorm: Seizing opportunity amid disruption | #openstacksummit

SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE is broadcasting live from this week’s #OpenStackSummit thanks in part to our exclusive sponsors for this event, Red Hat and Brocade. Co-hosts John Furrier and Stu Miniman welcomed the CEO of StackStorm, Evan Powell. StackStorm emerged from stealth last week and has gone into private beta effective today. The companies website offers a ...