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Wikibon sees software changing ground rules of business
IT organizations and the businesses they support need to work together to pilot their enterprises through the confusion of major changes rocking every boat. Established businesses are being challenged by a number of seismic shifts, including cloud computing, the huge increase in the pace of both technology and business change, open source, changing economics of ...
IBM pumps OpenPower with Xilinx partnership, Watson integration
Continuing its campaign to stoke enthusiasm for its OpenPower processor, IBM today made several announcements: Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) maker Xilinx Inc. has joined the OpenPower Foundation at the platinum level and will join the foundation’s board. IBM and Xilinx also announced a partnership to enable higher performance workload acceleration on Power systems. IBM also ...
Edge computing provides better IoT economics, says Wikibon CTO
Internet of Things (IoT) is on the verge of exploding onto the computing scene, and experts agree that data volumes will be astronomical. At its recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent event, Amazon presented a model that presumes all this data will be transmitted to central processing centers (many of them AWS) for analysis. Wikibon CTO David ...
Wikibon to EMC channel: Don’t panic, but reassess your business
The EMC Federation/Dell Inc. merger announcement should not drive channel partners into panic mode. But it should be an opportunity for partners to reassess and in some cases redesign their businesses in light of market trends, writes Wikibon Senior Analyst Stuart Miniman in “Transformation of the Storage Channel.” Dell is known for its preference for ...
Wikibon calls Microsoft-Red Hat partnership a win for both parties
Microsoft has come a long ways under CEO Satya Nadella, writes Wikibon Lead Cloud Analyst Brian Gracely. Five years ago then-CEO Steve Ballmer called Linux a “cancer”. Today, between 25 percent and 33 percent of instances on Microsoft Azure are running some version of Linux. But one flavor has been conspicuously missing – Red Hat ...
Banking, telco, retail lead Wikibon 2015 Big Data adoption survey
Banking, telecommunications, media and retail lead Big Data adoption in the Wikibon Fall 2015 survey, writes Wikibon Analyst Ralph Finos in “Big Data Adoption Progress Across Industries.” Health care showed the biggest positive change in its overall adoption in the 18 months since the last Wikibon survey. The rate of Big Data adoption is heavily ...
IBM a step ahead in Big Data analysis market says Wikibon
IBM is a step ahead of the competition in getting value from Big Data, and it showed that off at Insight 2015 last month. While the rest of the industry is still focused on developing Big Data infrastructure like Hadoop and Spark, IBM is focused on solving business problems with what it calls “Systems of ...
EMC/VMware cloud plan leaves many open questions – Wikibon
The VMware/EMC announcement of the creation of a jointly owned Cloud Services business under the Virtustream Inc., brand and incorporating VMware vCloud Air has answered one question – what the EMC Federation will do about its multiple public cloud businesses. However, writes Wikibon.com Cloud Analyst Brian Gracely, it also leaves a list of important questions ...
Pentaho seeks to manage data pipeline for Systems of Intelligence says Wikibon
Pentaho Corp.’s ambition is to orchestrate the analytic data pipeline from end-to-end, writes Wikibon Big Data & Analytics Analyst George Gilbert in “Systems of Intelligence Through Pentaho’s Lens.” Judging from Pentaho World last month, it is making steady progress toward that goal. This “fits nicely into Wikibon’s Systems of Intelligence theme,” Gilbert writes. The company ...
Wikibon: Convergence spells the end of storage as we know it
The storage industry has been in turmoil, with solid-state flash replacing spinning disk and new companies entering to challenge the market leaders. At the same time storage is being subsumed into larger packages – converged and hyper-converged systems and especially cloud services. Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) alone will account for somewhere between $1 ...