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The Uber effect: Digital disruption a growing concern for companies | #oow15
Business owners now have more than their bottom lines to keep them jittery — digital disruption from out-of-the-blue startups is becoming a major concern as well. The success of disruptive applications like Uber, Inc. and Airbnb, Inc. has left a lot of companies nervous that their industry might be next. For this reason, demand is ...
Is Cisco’s Unified Computing System taking security to the next level? | #oow15
Cisco System, Inc.’s Unified Computing System’s (UCS) technology enables more secure delivery of data packets between nodes thanks to the incorporation of Cisco Nexus Series switches. And, according to John McAbel, senior product manager of Oracle Solutions at Cisco, UCS may be the best bet for security in the industry. “By incorporating Nexus technology, we’ve proven that all ...
Will 2016 be the year for Big Data applications on flash? | #oow15
The future of flash belongs to the younger companies offering storage arrays, according to Ramesh Chitor, senior director of business development at Tegile Systems (Tegile, Inc.). Chitor spoke about the exciting growth of flash technology with Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Oracle OpenWorld 2015. The number of legacy companies offering ...
Social is moving faster than the web, says General Motors social strategist | #oow15
The possibilities for companies to leverage data to market to consumers on social media continue to grow. Whitney Drake, manager of social strategy and care at General Motors Co. (GM), talked with John Furrier and Jeff Frick, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during Oracle OpenWorld 2015 about the new world of business-to-consumer relations on ...
Security now an expectation in the cloud, says Secure 24 CTO | #oow15
Secure-24, LLC Co-Chief Technology Officer Sean Donaldson wants to change the way his customers look at security. People should start to see security as something continually evolving and improving, he explained to Stu Miniman and Brian Gracely, cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team. “It’s a living ecosystem,” he said. Secure 24’s team is constantly looking ...
Does Nimble’s ground-up innovation give it an edge over legacy vendors? | #oow15
Last December, CRN Magazine named San Jose-based company Nimble, “Storage Vendor of the Year.” Radhika Krishnan, VP of Solutions & Alliances for Nimble Storage, Inc., explained today on theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, that the company’s relative youth is actually a reason for its success. Established older vendors have been limited in their utilization of flash, because ...
How EMC’s all-flash array demystifies storage for DBAs | #oow15
Database administrators (DBAs) are no longer flummoxed by how their storage systems work thanks to EMC’s XtremIO, a leading all-flash array. The impressive offering from the Massachusetts-based company features scale-out and inline all-the-time data services. Jason Kotsaftis, senior director of database solutions at EMC, related his excitement at this breakthrough during an interview with Stu Miniman, cohost of ...
Cisco claims number one in Americas; closing in on being number one in the world | #oow15
What are the secrets behind tech behemoth Cisco Systems, Inc.‘s success? According to Jim McHugh, VP of product and solutions marketing for Unified Computing Systems (UCS) at Cisco, focusing on client experiences and usability continues to be the crucial metric in how the company analyses its own performance. McHugh sat down with Jeff Frick and Stu Miniman, cohosts of theCUBE, ...
