While some speculate that Dell EMC wants to be the IBM of the cloud era, funneling far-flung piece parts to customers through a single channel, in fact the company is primed to explore as much as consolidate, according to Jeremy Burton (pictured), chief marketing officer of Dell EMC. “I think when one part of the tech industry ...

A predictive data analytics model is like a puppy: not a great investment unless one is willing to train and retrain it continually, according to Dave Wright (pictured), chief strategy officer of ServiceNow Inc. Wright outlined how the company uses Machine Learning in the analytics tools, including an Intelligent Automation Engine, it announced at ServiceNow Knowledge17 in Orlando, ...

Tech mega-mergers practically always fail, so Dell EMC will hit the proverbial iceberg — it’s just a matter of when, right? Maybe not. There is a key difference with Dell EMC that might steer it clear of danger, according to Peter Burris (@plburris) (pictured, center), co-host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, in a ...

Nutanix Inc. began life as an application on top of VMware Inc., and after a few tumultuous years, its Initial Public Offering netted $238 million last September. Now the converged infrastructure company is setting sights higher. “Every decade and a half, there’s a new operating system that emerges; the question is, can we be the operating system ...

Today at Dell EMC World in Las Vegas, Nevada, VMware Inc. announced its integration of NSX network virtualization and security platform into containers with Pivotal Software Inc. Judging by reactions, remedial NSX schooling is needed, according to Pat Gelsinger (pictured), chief executive officer of VMware. “What is that networking crap? I just want to get my ports, ...

The modern company’s bulky Rolodex of software providers and partners can bog down staffers with license-renewal and security compliance tasks. Can ServiceNow Inc.’s new automation tools hand them off to machines, saving humans time and money? Dave Vellante (@dvellante) (pictured, right) and Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick) (pictured, left), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, ...

John Donahoe’s (pictured) goal as the new president and chief executive officer of ServiceNow Inc. was to visit 100 new customers in 100 days. Forty-five days later, he’s already met that goal. So what’s in Donahoe’s playbook for winning and keeping customers with technology? ServiceNow aims to help employers help employees help customers, and the interfaces for each ...

Bigger is not always better in tech, as Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. realized when it began breaking off chunks of the company to hone its value proposition. The now-merged Dell EMC titan appears to be too-much-of-a-good-thing too, but could VMware Inc. superglue the pieces into a salable whole? “Without VMware, it’s a really tough story to sell ...

This morning it was easy to imagine the OpenStack Summit in Boston, Massachusetts, would be the fade-out of an open-source project that couldn’t find its place in the world — OpenStack, an open-source software platform for cloud computing. At the close of day one of the Summit, however, host Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, right) and guest host ...

OpenStack got some play at last week’s 2017 Red Hat Summit, with keynote speakers giving the open-source infrastructure project nods. But there remains some mystery as to how much OpenStack customers are consuming from Red Hat Inc.’s offerings. “OpenStack manages resources —  whether its compute, network, storage resources,” said Jim Whitehurst (pictured), president and chief executive officer of Red ...