Laura Guio, IBM, with John Furrier and Dave Vellante at IBM Edge 2014
@thecube
#ibmedge
This week, SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE is at IBM Edge in Las Vegas. In this interview, Laura Guio, VP & Business Line Executive of STG at IBM, talked to John Furrier and Dave Vellante about IBM’s “infrastructure matters” initiative, their work with Lenovo and how tape and flash can keep costs down.
Infrastructure Matters
.
IBM Edge - Laura GuioFurrier started the interview by asking Guio to talk about their ‘infrastructure matters’ initiative and how that ties into changes IBM is rolling out for customers. Guio explained that it’s about giving customers the ability to take advantage of IBM’s storage technology and utilize it in a software lay down fashion, allowing them the freedom to choose the hardware they want to use.
Guio said customers appreciate IBM not defining the hardware options available to them. Vellante stated software-defined sounds good, but asked if there were any customer concerns around whether this will run as well as what they currently have. She clarified customers won’t be boxed in to only being able to move forward with software-defined and will still have the option to use the appliance approach. What customers have today is going to fit into a software-defined strategy. Over time, the software function will get more robust.
C-suite executives are excited about this new approach, but engineering teams are a little weary because they’re concerned about their data center getting disrupted. To resolve this, Guio said they’re making sure the design points getting put in are satisfying the direction c-suites are taking while not disrupting the business they’re running.
Software disruption
With all the software disruptions going on, Vellante questioned Laura about IBM’s approach towards them. Guio said their “approach is to drive the leading-edge technology as it comes out without disrupting what a client has in the data center today.”
She added the worst they can do is to introduce new technology and not make it work with what clients currently have in their environment. Their objective is to offer leading technology with very little disruption.
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Laura Guio, IBM, with John Furrier and Dave Vellante at IBM Edge 2014
@thecube
#ibmedge
This week, SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE is at IBM Edge in Las Vegas. In this interview, Laura Guio, VP & Business Line Executive of STG at IBM, talked to John Furrier and Dave Vellante about IBM’s “infrastructure matters” initiative, their work with Lenovo and how tape and flash can keep costs down.
Infrastructure Matters
.
IBM Edge - Laura GuioFurrier started the interview by asking Guio to talk about their ‘infrastructure matters’ initiative and how that ties into changes IBM is rolling out for customers. Guio explained that it’s about giving customers the ability to take advantage of IBM’s storage technology and utilize it in a software lay down fashion, allowing them the freedom to choose the hardware they want to use.
Guio said customers appreciate IBM not defining the hardware options available to them. Vellante stated software-defined sounds good, but asked if there were any customer concerns around whether this will run as well as what they currently have. She clarified customers won’t be boxed in to only being able to move forward with software-defined and will still have the option to use the appliance approach. What customers have today is going to fit into a software-defined strategy. Over time, the software function will get more robust.
C-suite executives are excited about this new approach, but engineering teams are a little weary because they’re concerned about their data center getting disrupted. To resolve this, Guio said they’re making sure the design points getting put in are satisfying the direction c-suites are taking while not disrupting the business they’re running.
Software disruption
With all the software disruptions going on, Vellante questioned Laura about IBM’s approach towards them. Guio said their “approach is to drive the leading-edge technology as it comes out without disrupting what a client has in the data center today.”
She added the worst they can do is to introduce new technology and not make it work with what clients currently have in their environment. Their objective is to offer leading technology with very little disruption.
