Stuart Miniman
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In this the 10th year of theCUBE’s coverage of VMworld, I’m going to take a look at the ebb and flow of VMware Inc.’s role in the waves of change in the technology industry and what’s coming next. The rise of virtualization …
Robots are not people and AI is not taking your job
Amazon.com Inc. is secretive about sharing what happens inside the fulfillment centers that our smiling packages come from. But like how its Amazon Web Services Inc. has given glimpses into the technologies that enable its cloud services, the new re:MARS show (for machine …
True hybrid cloud moves toward the mainstream
In the beginning, the only “real” cloud was public cloud. There were those that thought that it wasn’t a fit for the enterprise, or perhaps would only be used for test/dev environments. And there were plenty of historical failures for solutions before …
Cisco builds a software bridge to multicloud
Real transitions do not happen overnight. After attending Cisco Live Europe 2018, I wrote about Cisco Systems Inc.’s digital transformation toward becoming a software company. At Cisco Live Europe 2019, it was impressive to see how much progress has been made toward …
Red Hat post-IBM: embracing change and transformation
One of my favorite fun facts in discussing change is that due to the lifecycle of cells, your body mostly replaces itself every seven to 15 years. Companies often have significant changes in personnel, products and missions, yet like how we think about people, those first impressions are …
Is the $34B acquisition of Red Hat a game changer for IBM?
Yesterday’s $34 billion deal for IBM Corp. to buy Red Hat Inc. was the largest software acquisition in history, even larger than Microsoft Corp.’s deals to buy LinkedIn for $26.2 billion or GitHub for $7.5 billion. And among technology deals overall, it …
The radical reinvention of the data center
This is a sponsored post commissioned by Dell EMC. Sponsor Posts are identified paid posts that appear on all pages of SiliconANGLE.com, supporting editorial efforts. Premise Chief information officers understand that the operational model of the past – where “keeping the lights …
CrowdChat highlights resonance of #serversan
Industry interest in Wikibon’s definition of the new Server SAN architecture has been strong. Top industry podcasts in cloud (The CloudCast), virtualization (VMware Community Roundtable) and storage (SearchStorage) have had me as a guest to talk about the topic. This week, we …
Cisco Buys Whiptail : Impact on Storage Partnerships – Breaking Analysis
Flash changes everything. As Wikibon has been discussing for a few years now, flash has a significant impact on system and storage architecture. For a long time, storage consumption was measured in capacity and cost ($/GB). With the advent of flash, performance …
Convergence Pushes Services Up the Stack
Stack solutions like VCE’s Vblock, NetApp’s FlexPod and HP’s Converged Infrastructure look to bust the traditional silos of IT and create pools of resources. While solutions can be shipped as a single SKU (see David Floyer’s Rule of One), it does not …