 This week theCUBE broadcast from two great events, each presenting their case for open source in the enterprise. The Open Compute Project Summit V and the OpenStack Enterprise Forum brought out the top influencers in this space, and theCUBE co-hosts John Furrier and Dave Vellante sparked some great discussions on open source's role in transforming the enterprise data center. There’s a new paradigm in Silicon Valley, focused on hardware excellence and driven by software design. It’s what Furrier calls the new, modern homebrew computer club, but for data centers, not PCs. As SiliconANGLE's founder sees it, software-defined innovation is the future. In our Best of theCUBE series this week, Raj Dutt candidly shared his thoughts on why VMware is a dead man walking and why OpenStack is going to scale, enabling the enterprise to operate more like the public cloud. In Bitcoin news this week, our Bitcoin Weekly wrap-up is littered with major retailers getting into the bitcoins game, the state of New York holding a hearing on cryptocurrency, and more Silk Road fallout. Lastly, it's a CIOs job to come up with ways to store massive data in secure and safe environments. SiliconANGLE came up with 20 cloud computing statistics every CIO should know. -Kristen Nicole Martin, Senior Managing Editor | |  There’s a new Home Brew Club for the data center | #OCPSummit This has been dubbed the year of the cloud, and that represents a complete reengineering of the data center. SiliconANGLE founder and Editor in Chief John Furrier is leaving it to the alpha geeks to drive the innovation required to rethink the data center, noting a cultural shift in Silicon Valley. There’s a new paradigm in the valley, focused on hardware excellence. It’s what Furrier calls the new, modern home brew computer club, but for data centers and not PCs. As Furrier sees it, software-defined innovation is the future.
- |  Google dumps Motorola on Lenovo in $2.91 billion deal The tech world was taken by surprise this week when Google announced the sale of Motorola, the smartphone maker it acquired just two years ago for $12.5 billion, to China’s Lenovo in a cut-price $2.91 billion deal. While the deal is for Motorola’s handset business only, and that Google will keep most of the company’s patents, this might not be as much of a lopsided dump as you think. Lets dive into the actual numbers a bit more...
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|  Bitcoin Weekly: TigerDirect on board, CEO of BitInstant arrested, Antonopoulos joins Blockchain.info As far as weeks go, this one held a great deal of drama and interest for the Bitcoin community. TigerDirect.com became the first major retailer to use BitPay to process bitcoins (in the wake of Overstock.com going with Coinbase); Blockchain.info nabbed Andreas Antonopoulos as Cheif Security Officer; and CEO of BitInstant, Charlie Shrem, was arrested on charges related to money laundering and facilitating drug trade alongside a user from the now-defunct Silk Road. | |  In honor of OpenStack, Raj Dutt takes VMware behind the woodshed | #OEForum Our Best of theCUBE this week comes from the OpenStack Enterprise Forum and an interview with Raj Dutt SVP of Technology at Intermap. The conversation was extremely lively as Dutt espoused his opinions on what OpenStack really means, and why VMware is a dead man walking. Dutt goes on to note that VMware was the first wave, but we’re to the second wave now. He believes that because VMware is fundamentally not open source, from a business perspective, it’s a huge disadvantage. At the crux of his position is one simple premise: renting is always more expensive than owning. |  Big Data correctly predicts some GRAMMY winners : Spotify the best indicator
Prior to the GRAMMY awards last week, SiliconANGLE published some predictions made by different parties based on advanced analytics incorporating data from previous years and current social media trends. So who called the most winners at the 56th Annual GRAMMY awards? Spotify. Based on the actual winners, Spotify got three right: Best New Artist, Best Pop Solo Performance, and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Bing and Shazam only correctly predicted one right each. |  20 cloud computing statistics every CIO should know CIO’s are tasked with the challenge of determining the best way to store massive amounts of data in a safe, easy-to-access, cost-effective manner. Focusing on cloud computing, SiliconANGLE compiled 20 statistics that every CIO should look to store in their memory for future reference or for ground to stand on when bringing a cloud proposal to the rest of their executive teams. | | |
