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Converged infrastructure halves time-to-value in Wikibon analysis
Time-to-value is often the most important measure of project success in business. The pace of change is such that yesterday’s development schedules often cannot deliver a project before the market opportunity is missed. With that in mind, Wikibon CTO David Floyer went back to a case study from earlier last month, “Driving Business Value for ...
Wikibon: Systems of Intelligence will radically reshape IT value
The next generation of applications, which Wikibon calls “Systems of Intelligence,” will create major changes not just in computing but in business processes and capabilities. These new applications do not replace traditional systems of record; ERP, CRM and corporate financial systems will still be with us for the foreseeable future. Rather, they will combine the ...
Wikibon sees Oracle going the right way with data recovery
Too many IT organizations take a one-size-fits-all approach to data backup, which Wikibon’s data experts argue is not a good mindset in a 24x7x365 business environment. At the same time, no database backup and recovery scheme or technology set is perfect. Every strategy has tradeoffs, and a strategy that is optimal for one database and ...
Wikibon analyst advises CIOs to watch Virtustream closely
VMware Inc. and EMC are restructuring Virtustream Inc. to become the new hybrid cloud services business and brand and an independent member of the EMC Federation. As such, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer, it is a strategic part of the Federation and, post-acquisition, the new Dell-EMC company should give it a high priority in investment throughout the ...
#theCUBE at Dell World offers answers to all your acquisition questions
This week theCUBE goes to Dell World 2015 with live coverage. Coming on the heels of last week’s blockbuster announcement of Dell’s intent to acquire EMC, including Pivotal and VMware, it will give SiliconANGLE Media Co-CEOs John Furrier and Dave Vellante and Wikibon Senior Analyst Stuart Miniman opportunities to ask senior Dell executives, including company ...
Microsoft, not AWS, leads business cloud services market, says Wikibon
Microsoft Corp.’s Azure leads the business public cloud services market in overall revenues, writes Wikibon Cloud Analyst Brian Gracely in his analysis, “Public Cloud Markets get More Competitive.” Amazon Web Services (AWS) comes in a fairly close second but Microsoft is growing at an incredible 95.4 percent annually, the fastest of any cloud service on ...
Wikibon finds broad diversity in PaaS platforms
The leading cloud-native application platforms are diverse in their design, capabilities and histories. In part this reflects the different needs of their creators or target audiences, in part the different uses and kinds of cloud applications they are used to create. And in part, perhaps, this reflects the immaturity of the technology; no consensus has ...
Wikibon sees enterprise potential in VMware cloud-native platform
VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps announcements from VMworld 2015 have the potential to become a DevOps foundation not just for combining software-led environments with containers but so to take VMware’s huge population of enterprise users to DevOps and cloud-native application-building. DevOps and cloud-native promise great things for the enterprise. They are key to the agility shown by ...
SaaS to dominate public cloud growth, Wikibon predicts
The future belongs to companies that combine leading technology with innovative business models, writes Wikibon Analyst Brian Gracely in “Unpacking the Public Cloud Market”. Recent Wikibon Public Cloud research predicts that 33 percent of all IT spending will move to public clouds within ten years as leading organizations leverage cloud along with mobile devices, open source ...
A new IT infrastructure is forming around flash, containers, OpenStack, says Wikibon
A new infrastructure stack is evolving with the principal elements being flash storage, hyper-convergence/Server SAN, OpenStack and containers. Some of these are causing a lot of excitement, but each is in a different stage of development, and users should expect more to come, writes Wikibon Senior Analyst Stuart Miniman in his latest Wikibon Alert, “Realities ...