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Everyone Will Need a Cloud Like Amazon, says Citrix
When it comes to cloud services and VMware partners in particular, there’s always a hint of competition amongst its supporters, even in the most cooperative sense of the word. But this coop-atition is also what helps drive innovation across an entire industry, and during a panel discussion on theCube at VMworld this week, three executives ...
EMC’s Pat Gelsinger Talks Flash Catch Up in Storage Array
A regular on theCube, EMC President and COO Pat Gelsinger stopped by to discuss the changing culture of his company, and what it’s going to take to catch up to Flash storage trends (full video below). Looking back over previous VMworld events, and the past few years of EMC’s progress, there’s some significant milestones that ...
Big Data Spotlight: Hadoop, Local Storage Key to the Future
Big data is a pretty hot topic right now, but when it comes to cloud implimentation, there’s still a lot to learn. Today’s first big data panel at VMworld welcomed Cloudera co-founder Amr Awadallah and Richard McDougall, CTO of Application Infrastructure at VMware, discussing big data, the cloud and virtualization with theCube co-hosts John Furrier ...
Is VMware after Microsoft or Salesforce? VMworld 2011 Blogger Panel
We had some notable bloggers stop by theCube at VMworld today, all anxious to discuss their perspective on this year’s event, where VMware is headed and what’s going on in the virtualization industry. Gary Orenstein and Derrick Harris of GigaOm, and George Reese of O’Reilly Media sat down for a panel moderated by our own ...
Big Data Predicts the Success of Your Business Idea: Enloop Update
It’s well known that big data is giong to be key in the future of business intelligence, helping people at every level of the organization to make better decisions. But what about business intelligence before a business is even launched? What if data could help you determine whether or not a business idea should become ...
VMworld Kicks Off with New Products, Support from Dell, EMC and Juniper
VMworld 2011 kicks off today, and it will be a pretty important event for the virtualization company. Coming off a major server release earlier this year, VMware faced a bit of backlash after its price hike for the new vSphere 5. VMware is also facing increasing competition from Microsoft, which has been ramping up efforts ...
TMZ Shoots a Sickly Steve Jobs, Stoops Too Low for Words
There’s a photo floating around of Steve Jobs looking rather ill. It was posted by none other than TMZ, less than 48 hours after Jobs announced his resignation from Apple as CEO. It’s for health reasons that Jobs is finally stepping down, though he remains an integral part of the company as the Chairman of ...
Druva Raises $12M for Mobile Backup
Druva, the developer of the InSync mobile backup and data protection offering, announced that it closed a $12 million Series B funding round led by Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from existing investor Sequoia Capital. The company will use the capital to expand its marketing efforts in North America, as well in EMEA and Asia ...
IBM’s Vision of Data Scientists: Our Bridge to the Future
What is the role of a data scientist? That’s something we’ve been trying to pin down as the world of big data grows wider, and the need for professionals that understand this semi-vague trend grows in tandem. The role of the data scientist means many things to many people, and many corporations are anxious to ...
Hey Apple Fan Boy! We Don’t Need You Anymore
The first thought on many minds after Steve Jobs announced his resignation is what will happen to his brand? The Apple cult has become as prominent as Jobs himself; as an individual, he’s become an inseperable figure from Apple products, building the brand with every keynote demonstration, every product reveal, and every damning statement against ...
