VMware, Inc.’s launch of Virtual SAN (VSAN) 6.2 has garnered much fanfare in the industry, but VCE Company, LLC President Chad Sakac has a small bone to pick: “They should have called this VSAN face-melting edition.” Sakac told Stu Miniman, cohost of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, that the new VSAN raises the bar by incorporating ...

How does a young company compete against a behemoth competitor with an 80 percent enterprise marketshare? “We look for the agents of change,” said Plexxi, Inc.’s CEO Rich Napolitano, referring to the company’s strategy for attracting customers looking for novel IT Solutions. Despite speculation that Cisco Systems, Inc. will eventually acquire Plexxi, Napolitano seems quite ...

The explosion of software-defined storage has been crucial to the converging or leaning of IT in the past few years. What these new storage methods make possible for businesses and organizations is an area of increasing interest. “The role of hardware has changed,” said Chris Farey, cofounder and CTO for StorMagic, a software-defined storage provider. The ...

As cheap, efficient, public cloud offerings continue to whet people’s appetites for plug and play IT, companies are rushing to meet the demand. “It’s going to be on like Donkey Kong” for ready-to-use infrastructure this year, said VCE Co., LLC President Chad Sakac. Owned by EMC, VCE provides converged infrastructure and solutions. Sakac told Stu ...

Add data protection to the list of IT areas where software-defined is reducing bulk and boosting usability. Loss of large data sets can be disastrous for organizations. The latest software technology offers new ways to ensure against it without taking up physical space or hiring more staff. Joseph King, chief technology officer and VP of ...

The space for work productivity tools has filled up with a lot of platforms geared toward helping HR comply with rules and keep records. But there’s not many for helping mold better employees, according to Srinivas Krishnamurti, cofounder and CEO of Zugata, In., a four-month-old startup offering performance review technology. Rather than giving bosses more means to ...

Another day, another startup promising to change everything — that’s been the climate in technology for the past few years, and analysts wonder how much longer it can last. The way to avoid the bubble burst some see as inevitable is to get real about profitability, according to Steve Herrod, managing director of  General Catalyst ...

The idea that intelligent machines will make humans obsolete in many industries employing today’s population is a common concern for everyone except the people building those machines. Case in point, Micha Gorelick, a data scientist and engineer with Fast Forward Labs, doesn’t talk glowingly about the superiority of algorithms compared to brains, but rather stresses their limitations. The crucial ...

Developers and tech professionals are bustling to find the best applications for data and machine learning these days. Fast Forward Labs is taking a zany and surprisingly fruitful approach to winning the race, according to Kathryn Hume, director of sales and marketing: Throw it in the water, and see if it can swim. The development ...

The hype about data is matched only by the complexity of navigating and mining it for applicable uses. Above the chatter, companies are now saying simply, “Show me the application.” In response, New York City-based Fast Forward Labs has sprung up to provide practical solutions that utilize data and machine learning. CEO and Founder Hilary ...