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Once “an exercise in pain management,” NFL game scheduling has become vastly easier in the past few years thanks to some powerful IBM number-crunching. Mike North, Senior Director of Broadcast Planning and Scheduling was at IBM Edge to thank IBM “for their …
Data protection? “Nailed it.” | #EMCWorld
As an EMC practitioner, Independent Bank represents a company whose customers rely on the bank’s ability to protect their information. At the same time, the bank is expected to grant those customers access to their data, day and night, from a PC …
Why SHI is excited about SQL 2014 | #EMCWorld
As IT solutions evolve to meet the needs of a greater variety of businesses, distributors like SHI work to find the best products to fit their customer’s needs. On theCUBE at EMC World 2014, SHI’s Director of Strategic Partners, Brandon Farrell, discussed his …
EMC, Ingram Micro bring enterprise-class products to SMBs | #EMCWorld
For small and mid-size businesses, finding an affordable, effective storage solution can be a challenge. EMC, hand-in-hand with their channel partner Ingram Micro, is working to solve this problem. Their business tactics, product offerings, and predictions were the focus of theCUBE interview …
Automation encourages innovation and cooperation | #IBMEdge
Excited to speak with a customer, John Furrier and Dave Vellante welcomed Brendon McCaulley, Executive Director of IT Service Operations at Heartland Payment Systems, to theCUBE at the IBMEdge conference in Las Vegas. Innovation on the rise despite a flat IT budget …
Cloud is an evolution, not a revolution | #IBMEdge
John Furrier sat down with two executives from Micro Strategies, Steve DeLuca, SVP of Sales, and Ray Scardelli, VP of Sales and Marketing, to discuss the changes and challenges they observed in the IT market, particularly around the cloud. Furrier first asked …
Storage resource management is money well-spent | #IBMEdge
In their interview with Brian Jeffery, Managing Director of ITG, Jeff Frick and Dave Vellante gained valuable insight into IT economics, discussing the costs and challenges that IT must overcome if they wish to maximize profitability. Where does the money go in …
Finding profitability with Services, not hardware | #IBMEdge
In their second interview at #IBMEdge, Dave Vellante and Jeff Frick interviewed Bob Elliott, VP of storage at Mainline. An IBM partner, Mainline handles a lot of server storage business, and is one of the larger IBM storage partners in the United …
How close Is Big Data to its inflection point? | #EMCWorld
At the EMC World conference, Stu Miniman got to speak with two EMC decision makers to shed a little light on Big Data’s burgeoning role in the IT industry. John Cardente, Big Data and Analytics, Corporate CTO Office of EMC and Aiden …
Challenges and changes to come for OpenStack | #openstacksummit
In their wrap-up of day two’s live coverage from this year’s OpenStack Summit in Atlanta, GA theCUBE co-hosts Stu Miniman and John Furrier reviewed their learnings from the day’s interviews and offered predictions about trends to watch as OpenStack matures in the …