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Salesforce wants to be your Siri, reads emails to suggest tasks | #dreamforce
“Isn’t this an unbelievable dream already…?” asks Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff as he takes the stage for the keynote at Dreamforce 2015 in San Francisco. Getting to the business side of the presentation after a traditional Hawaiian blessing and a mini-concert by Stevie Wonder who sings, “Dreamforce is the sunshine of my life,” Benioff takes ...
Every car Uber’d: CEO shares vision beyond ride-sharing | #dreamforce
“Why aren’t all cars Uber’d?” Travis Kalanick, founder and CEO of Uber Technologies, asks this question, and says that he believes it would make the world a better place. In a relaxed and entertaining fireside chat with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at Dreamforce 2015 in San Francisco, Kalanick talks about Uber’s strategy, mission, cultural values, and ...
The “black art” of enterprise engineering | #CCL2015
“No one wins if you’re a dick at the beginning of the process,” said serial entrepreneur Jay Adelson, cofounder and general partner at Center Electric, LLC, discussing the shared risk between the investor and the innovator at the start of a relationship. John Furrier and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, sat ...
Increased interconnectivity in the enterprise heightens security concerns | #CCL2015
IIX, Inc. CEO Al Burgio wants to revolutionize how organizations connect to each other, and while he admits he may be biased, he believes “what we’ve created here is very valuable.” John Furrier and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, talked with Burgio about the launch of the Console SaaS platform ...
Cutting out the craziness of the Wild Wild West Internet | #CCL2015
“The Internet is the Wild Wild West. With Direct Connect [a peer-to-peer file-sharing protocol] you’re cutting out the craziness of the Internet, connecting directly with businesses you know, businesses you trust,” said Shafiek Peck, lead network engineer at Zendesk, Inc. John Furrier and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, discuss the ...
Will Console Connect re-engineer the Internet? | #CCL2015
“This is important. It is change at the root level,” said John Furrier, founder of SiliconANGLE and cohost of theCUBE. John Furrier and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, kicked off theCUBE’s coverage of Console Connect LIVE 2015 at the Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco, where newly formed Console, Inc. is ...
Federation is key for Canadian medical record management | #VMworld
Ninety-five percent virtualized and with more than 1,000 production machines and just over 800 production servers, eHealth Saskatchewan has been though the virtualization journey. But Jay Benson, manager of IT Architecture at eHealth Saskatchewan’s, joined Dave Vellante of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during VMworld 2015 that this only presents a new set of challenges. Benson is ...
HP won’t force-feed hyperconvergence | #VMworld
“It’s a piece of the puzzle, but it’s not the whole puzzle from our perspective,” said Rob Strechay, director of product marketing and management for Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Storage division. Strechay joined Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, to “talk hyperconvergence” during VMworld 2015. At HP Storage, hyperconvergence is seen as an extension ...
‘EMC will be reborn, rebooted, with VMware at the center’ | #VMworld
theCUBE and SiliconANGLE’s coverage for the final day of VMworld 2015 kicked off at the Moscone Center in San Francisco with theCUBE cohosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante welcoming Wikibon’s Big Data & Analytics Analyst George Gilbert for a special discussion on Big Data trends. Gilbert talked about the evolution of the data stack and analyzed ...
Putting the disk back into the server | #VMworld
“It’s the right time, it’s the right thing to be happening … to put the disk back into the server,” said Springpath, Inc. CEO Terry Cunningham. Cunningham spoke to Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during VMworld 2015 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Cunningham thinks it’s about time ...
