Startups advertise themselves as cloud-native, because the term translates to agility and scalability in sync with the new cloud infrastructure enterprises are moving toward. This leaves non-cloud-native companies at a disadvantage, according to Mazda Marvasti, chief executive officer of appLariat Corp. “They’re able to hire these software artisans who can handcraft an application,” Marvasti said of ...

After years of lagging behind the U.S. in big data, Europe has just about caught up, according to John Kreisa (pictured), vice president of international marketing at Hortonworks Inc. But will the EU’s new data privacy legislation break their stride? “We used to say when I first moved over here that Europe was maybe a year and ...

The supersonic growth of Amazon Web Services and other cloud providers in the past few years owes much to open-source communities that fed them cutting-edge tech free-of-charge. Now telecom is mimicking this strategy through involvement with the Linux Foundation, according to Scott Raynovich (@rayno) (pictured, right), guest host of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio. ...

The network bottleneck needs all the tech talent startups can throw at it. The Linux Foundation’s OpenSwitch Project wants to remove lower-stack roadblocks that might stifle their innovation. “We’re seeing startups come in and do really, really interesting things really, really well,” said Drew Schulke (pictured), vice president of converged networking at Dell EMC. However, they could ...

The going joke in big data is that ROI means “Reduction on Investment.” So far, real profits are missing in action. But a conspiracy of silence at enterprises may be hiding a very different reality, according to Mike Merrit-Holmes (pictured), senior vice president of global services strategy at Think Big, A Teradata Company. “There’s more ROI out ...

Some analysts speculate that Cloudera Inc.’s initial public offering will see the company’s valuation severely lowered. Does this reflect reality, or is it an illusion created by a market that can’t yet measure the value of open-source communities? “The ecosystems of open source are now going through a dimension where they’re not yet valued in ...

The alphabet soup of network standards bodies, like the Internet Engineering Task Force, Broadband Forum and Metro Ethernet Forum are transforming, according to Dave Ward (pictured), chief technical officer of engineering and chief architect at Cisco Systems Inc. “Each one of those standards bodies is redefining themselves to be SDN [Software-Defined Network]-capable,” Ward said. “All these organizations have now ...

Last February AT&T Inc. announced the Open Network Automation Platform (also known as ONAP), on which they and other carriers will share their technologies with the Linux open-source community. Why would a proprietary giant suddenly make its wares free to the public? It can no longer afford not to, said Lisa Caywood (pictured), director of ecosystem development, OpenDaylight ...

Startups with grand plans to build massive platforms may want to heed the advice of Martin Casado (pictured), general partner at Andreessen Horowitz: “Customers don’t buy platforms; customers buy products.” This rings doubly true for companies working on Software-Defined Networking solutions, Casado told host Jeff Frick (@JeffFrick) and guest host Scott Raynovich (@rayno) of theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile live streaming studio, ...

East Coast startups may lack the funding of their Silicon Valley brethren. But that hasn’t been a problem for NYC-based DigitalOcean Inc., a cloud infrastructure provider founded in 2011. Its fiercely loyal following of individual developers is taking them to the Fortune 500, according to Julia Austin, the company’s chief technical officer. A VMware Inc. alumna, Austin arrived ...