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Radical eco-system growth for Docker open platform | #DockerCon
Jeff Frick, GM of theCUBE, and Stu Miniman, senior analyst at Wikibon, discussed the first day of the 2015 DockerCon gathering in San Francisco. Discussion points include the phenomenal growth of Docker and how the open platform is removing barriers to productivity and becoming the new epicenter of change. “Everyone is hopping on Docker” Docker ...
The Cloud: A stronghold for storage | #datacenter
The Cloud is not something soft and fluffy, but a stronghold for storage akin to a traditional safe, according to Calex, Inc.’s Jill Von Berg,VP of IT, and Ravi Gade, senior director of IT. The duo spoke to theCUBE during the Oracle Cloud Platform Launch about how Oracle-integrated Cloud services support the Calix strategy to ...
Oracle Exadata available on subscription basis: 1/10th cost of AWS | #datacenter
Penny Avril, Oracle VP of Product Management, is excited by the possibilities for the Exadata Database Machine provided by the fully integrated Oracle PaaS. “Now Exadata is available on a subscription basis; it is available starting in a relatively modest unit size … so we are dynamically extending the reach out to more customers, as ...
Oracle PaaS links Cloud and on-prem offering with completely integrated services | #datacenter
“We want to be the PaaS that doesn’t simply provide Oracle technology, but our competition’s technology as well.” Hot on the heels of Larry Ellison’s “breathtaking announcement” about the new hybrid Cloud management capabilities of the Oracle platform, Oracle EVP of Fusion Middleware Development, Inderjeet Singh, spoke to theCUBE about the process of integrating Cloud-based ...
How IT can be more than an ‘order-taker’ | #datacenter
Speaking to theCUBE at the Oracle Cloud Launch at Oracle HQ in Redwood Shores, CA, Michael Kuban, director of Enterprise Solutions for global supplement manufacturer Pharmavite, LLC, discusses how Pharmavite is re-inventing its business processes using Oracle solutions. “We’re starting at the ground up, but the vision is to fully automate and integrate work activities ...
Analytics design aims to make data available for everyone | #sparkinsight
Speaking from the new Spark Technology Center in San Francisco, David Townsend, chief Designer at IBM, discussed his work with the IBM analytics design team. “The easier the product is, the more intuitive it becomes, the harder the design challenges,” he said. “It boils down to being really curious and understanding the end user, having ...
Apache Spark offers multi-dimensional power to solve customer problems fast | #sparkinsight
Rod Smith, IBM fellow, VP of IBM’s Emerging Internet Technologies organization, and the catalyst behind Spark believes that Spark is set to become the next Linux. He credits the platform’s growing popularity to its speed and flexibility. “It’s time to value … that is going to attract audiences, because now they can show their business ...
Nutanix: The second coming of infrastructure | #NEXTConf
“I think it’s absolutely revolutionary in the market, I think they are challenging a lot of the norms and I think they’re bringing an approach to the industry that is really transformational,” said Dan Gorman, an enterprise infrastructure architect. Gorman discussed the impact of Nutanix to enterprise infrastructure in a recent interview with theCUBE at ...
Dell reliability + Nutanix innovation makes for a strong team | #NEXTConf
Production collaboration between industry veteran Dell, Inc. and newcomer Nutanix has led to the Dell XC Series having the fastest pipeline ramp in Dell history. Speaking at the first Nutanix user conference, Travis Vigil of Dell Storage stated, “The storage aspect of what Nutanix does is absolutely critical to the success of software-defined and hyper-converged ...
Will Nutanix win the new enterprise platform computing race? | #NEXTConf
Ravi Mhatre, founder and managing director of Lightspeed Venture Partners, talked to theCUBE during Nutanix .NEXT 2015 about the future of enterprise platform computing and how Nutanix has the potential to become the next multibillion-dollar company to emerge from the Lightspeed core enterprise investment sphere. Mhatre sees fundamental changes occurring in the current data center ...