VMworld 2012 Day 1 Wrap Up
Cube hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante sat down to reflect on the main highlights from Day 1 of VMworld 2012, providing an overview of the company and the rest of the market in…
Call of Duty Black Ops 2 and the Live Streaming Revolution for Gaming
By Kyt Dotson
Social media and video has an interesting culture when it comes to people sharing their lives what started with people pushing images from phones to services such as Instragram and the webcam revolution with…
Short of Staff, Financial Traders Turns to Analytic Software and Services
The financial crisis of 2008 and following recession resulted in significant job losses across industries, and the financial services industry itself was no exception. Call it a self-inflicted wound if you must, but the…
Expected Features for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2
Samsung is set to unveil the Galaxy Note 2 tomorrow at an UnPacked event in Berlin, Germany just a few days ahead of the IFA 2012 show, which will run from August 31 to…
IBM Takes On SAP, Oracle with Latest Buy
Big Blue is taking on SAP and Oracle with the acquisition of Kenexa, a provider of HR consultancy and services that plays in the same pond as Success Factors. IBM agreed to pay $46…
Nutanix CEO Reinforces Data Infrastructure and the Software-Defined Compute/Storage Tier
Nutanix Co-Founder & CEO Dheeraj Pandey stepped in on theCube at VMworld 2012 to share some perspective on convergence, data infrastructure, and the new era of computing. Nutanix is right at the heart of…
“Our Biggest Competition is the Status Quo” says Fusion-IO CEO, David Flynn [VIDEO]
In their ongoing coverage of VMworld, John Furrier and Dave Vellante spoke with David Flynn, CEO of Fusion-IO. In its first year as a public company, Fusion-IO boasts an impressive earning’s report, 82% growth…
The Missed Opportunity In the Olympic Games? Branding for a Global Audience
By Saroj Kar
From the birth of the modern Olympics, the “Olympic Brand” is associated with three supreme values: excellence, respect and friendship. It is on these three pillars of the IOC, which has set a goal…
VMworld Announcements Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary
The VMworld Keynote announcements are evolutionary rather than revolutionary, but that’s okay says Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in his Professional Alert on the first-day announcements at VMworld 2012. The biggest news, he says, is…
The Birth of the Cloud Computing Era: HP Expands with vCloud Suite 5.1
By Amber Harris
HP’s Converged Cloud has expanded with VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 and was unveiled at VMworld 2012 on Monday. The software intertwines VMware’s virtualization, cloud infrastructure and management portfolio into one SKU, which simplifies the adoption…