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The Cube’s John Furrier and Dave Vellante sat down with Jason Nolet, Vice President Data Center and Enterprise Networking Group, Brocade, at this year’s EMC World about the state of the networking market and where the market is going (see full video …
Cisco, Juniper Face Anxious Rival in Alcatel-Lucent: Re-entering the Market
Telecommunications provider Alcatel-Lucent has unveiled a new core routing product and is officially making its entry into the $4 billion market for Internet core routers. The new platform, the 7950 Extensible Routing System (XRS), is based on the company’s 400Gbps FP3 processor …
Enterprise Drives New Features in Cloud Collaboration
The number of cloud storage providers has increased dramatically over the last couple of years. Many attract new users by offering free storage in hopes that users of the free services will convert to paying customers. While selling services to more consumers …
Yahoo: A Brief History of Failure
Yahoo used to be “the” place to go online. However, in recent years, the once illustrious web portal has been almost a continual state of decline. It seems almost every step the company takes moves it closer to demise. Even the hiring …
Dell Taking Low Profits “In Stride”
The last few months have been quite the roller coaster ride for Dell. The company’s stock prices have fallen 17 percent to $12.49 – the largest one day decline the company has seen for twelve years. Overall, the share prices are down …
EMC CTO Discusses the Current State of Big Data
The Cube is providing continuous coverage of EMC World 2012 being held in Las Vegas May 21 – 24. The Cube’s Dave Vellante sat down with Bill Schmarzo, CTO Enterprise Information Management and Analytics, EMC. Schmarzo said two activities at EMC World …
Video Conferencing and Networking Go Hand in Hand
Video conferencing and telepresence provider Vidyo has extended its fourth round of funding and attracted the attention of Juniper Networks. Vidyo has not disclosed the amount of investment, only saying that it has raised $97 million to date. The company will use …
Where Is Facebook’s Mobile Strategy Going?
Facebook isn’t allowing a pesky little drop in its IPO price distract it from doing a little shopping. The company has announced it is buying social gifting service Karma, founded by former Tapjoy co-founders Lee Linden and Ben Lewis. Does this latest …
EMC Helps Texas City Reduce Costs, Improve Business Continuity
EMC announced that Denton, TX, a city near the Dallas Ft. Worth metroplex, is standardizing on EMC technology. The city will be leveraging products such as EMC’s storage products EMC VNX and EMC VPLEX Metro. Denton was also able to virtualize 90 …
Exploring SAP’s Mobile Strategy at SAPphire 2012 [Video]
The Cube’s John Furrier, Founder, Silicon Angle and Dave Vellante, Co-founder, Wikibon, interviewed Thorsten Stephan, VP Mobile Applications Unit, SAP at this year’s SAP Sapphire Now in Orlando, FL about SAP’s mobile strategy (see full video below). SAP is clearly making a …