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AWS-Red Hat deal “something we’ll be talking about all year,” says analyst
The big news out of this week’s Red Hat Summit is Amazon.com Inc,’s agreement to make its thousands of services available in Red Hat Inc.’s container application platform OpenShift. With the ink on the contract barely dry, Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, left) and Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) (pictured, right), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, discussed ...
Can open-source partnerships breathe fresh life into proprietary old guard?
Fusing the distant past into the present and future, speakers from telecom companies Sprint Corp. and Ericsson — both founded in the 1800s — spoke onstage during a keynote at Red Hat Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. Along with infrastructure legacy brands Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP and Dell-EMC, they revealed how they’ll continue to innovate with ...
Open secret: CEO plays up the human factor in Red Hat’s open-source growth
Open-source solution providers emulating Red Hat Inc.’s success might take this tip from the company’s President and Chief Executive Officer Jim Whitehurst (pictured): Technology does not make open source; humans do. “We don’t select technology; we select communities. And I think that’s a really important subtlety,” Whitehurst said today at the Red Hat Summit in Boston, ...
Red Hat is eating software, but could heft slow them down, analysts ask
With all of the open-source companies that would love to pocket Red Hat Inc.’s profits, none of them have matched its quarter-after-quarter growth nor its $15 billion market capitalization. At Red Hat Summit in Boston, Massachusetts, Stu Miniman (@stu) (pictured, left) and Rebecca Knight (@knightrm) (pictured, right), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, asked, ...
A tale of two networks: Open-source, 5G race toward a connected world
Day one of Red Hat Summit in Boston, Massachusetts, brought together major open-source contributors in a keynote address to discuss how open-source collaboration and the 5G network are combining to manifest a hyper-connected world. “The call of action for all of us, all of you developers, is to take advantage of all of the capabilities 5G, ...
Marketing’s broken and MarTech can’t fix it alone, says expert
Savvy businesses can upload customer data, push “power” on glittering new MarTech — the blending of marketing and technology — and watch their conversion rates soar, right? It’s not quite so simple, according to Jay Baer (pictured), president of Convince and Convert LLC. Businesses excited about massive data assets might need a reality check, Baer said at Oracle Corp.’s ...
How B2B and B2C commerce mimic each other with IoT data and AI
Digital disruption in commerce is as old as Amazon.com Inc., but through artificial intelligence and Internet of Things, buyer experience is again transforming in business-to-business and business-to-consumer transactions. “Now it’s completely fathomable to leverage AI to drive more high-end personalization or to leverage IoT to embed commerce more into everyday experiences,” said Katrina Gosek (pictured, right), senior ...
How Oracle cures its ecosystem partners’ market identity crises
A vast ecosystem can look like many, many roads to revenue, but partners don’t assist each other by offering 1,000 versions of the same thing, according to Doug Kennedy (pictured), vice president of business development and partner strategy at Oracle’s Marketing Cloud Division. “You’ll fail if you’re spread too thin and trying to be everything to everyone,” Kennedy said. Oracle ...
Can AI satisfy spoiled buyers used to the ‘Amazon effect’?
Retailers and service providers better be ready for their closeups, as digitization is allowing customers to compare and contrast products before making a purchase. “I’d say it’s the era of the empowered customer,” said Des Cahill (pictured), vice president and head CX evangelist at Oracle Corp. The Amazon Effect — whereby customers have increased ability to research and choose ...
Can Oracle’s agile data strategy cure what ails marketing pros?
At this week’s Oracle Modern Marketing Experience in Las Vegas, Nevada, speakers and attendees stressed that MarTech — the blending of marketing and technology — cannot significantly improve business without the aid of agile cultural transformation. Peter Burris (@plburris) (pictured, left) and John Furrier (@furrier), (pictured, right), co-hosts of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming ...
