Vantara is essentially a reorganisation within Hitachi, with the company blending together three business units: the data centre specialist Hitachi Data Systems, BI and analytics brand Pentaho and the big data unit Hitachi Insight Group.
Dave Grohl: Meg White 'One Of The Best Drummers Ever'. He ranks The White Stripes drummer alongside John Bonham and Keith Moon while discussing how other musicians lack personality. Dave Grohl has sung the praises of Meg White, calling her one of his favorite drummers of all time. He names The White Stripes drummer alongside Patrick Carnay of The Black Keys and Chris Tomson from Vampire Weekend, saying they deserve to be put in the drumming ranks alongside Keith Moon and John Bonham.
In the summer of 2007, before a show in Southaven, Mississippi, Ben Blackwell (Jack's nephew and the group's archivist) says that Meg approached him and said, This is the last White Stripes show.. He asked if she meant of the tour, but she responded, No.n Jack's words, When she started to play drums with me, just on a lark, it felt liberating and refreshing. There was something in it that opened me up.. The two then began calling themselves The White Stripes (because Meg favored peppermint candies) and soon played their first gig at the Gold Dollar in Detroit.