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Wikibon says Hortonworks Dataflow is stream processor with a twist
Hortonworks Inc.’s DataFlow, which the company brought to market thanks to its purchase of Onyara Inc., is much more than just another stream processor. It has a unique set of capabilities that makes it hard to classify and that are the answer to the needs in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) and Internet-of-Anything (IoAT) domains, writes Wikibon ...
Wikibon offers guidance for sorting out confusing PaaS market
Cloud-native applications are the keys to business success going forward for virtually all organizations. New born-on-the-cloud companies like Airbnb Inc. are revolutionizing vertical industries with these applications, and traditional businesses are hurrying to catch up to avoid being disrupted. This new breed of modular, micro-service-based application will define business success today just as ERP and ...
Ignore flash trash talk, cautions Wikibon analyst
Hard disk drive (HDD) vendors are spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) to discourage their customers from moving to flash storage for low-latency data, the value of which is measured is time-to-access rather than cost-per-terabyte. These vendor luddites claim that flash is too expensive and that the dramatic decrease in cost-per-TB of flash will soon ...
Wikibon recommends multi-disciplinary approach to building effective Systems of Intelligence
Building effective Systems of Intelligence (SoIs) is a three-step process requiring business and design knowledge as well as data science and, of course, coding. In his latest Professional Alert, “Getting Started with Machine Learning Foundation of Systems of Intelligence”, Wikibon Big Data & Analytics Analyst George Gilbert identifies three steps to building effective SoIs, each ...
SQL doesn’t mesh with Systems of Intelligence applications – Wikibon
For three decades, SQL has been the universal data research tool. It is flexible, powerful and, most of ,all universal. Business users who master it can work with virtually any data in any enterprise. It lets the user define what needs to be done with what data and leaves it to the database to find ...
Wikibon: Systems of Intelligence demand new database architectures
Despite the headlines, traditional SQL databases are not yet dead, writes Wikibon Analyst George Gilbert. But it is “beginning to bleed from a thousand cuts” as new Systems of Intelligence demand new database types with different capabilities. The traditional RDBMS that has dominated database technology for 30 years is designed for systems of record, which ...
With prices plunging, Wikibon sees flash turning storage market on its head
NAND flash is taking over the storage market. Currently flash has less than 15 percent of the overall market, but that is rapidly changing as the per-TB cost of flash arrays plunges. In 2012 all-flash and hybrid flash-HDD arrays cost 10 times HHD — $20,000 per TB for flash vs $2,268 for HHD. Today the ...
Wikibon analyst says flash snapshots will revolutionize information management
A major advantage driving the trend to all-flash storage environments is the prospect of replacing most database copies with snapshots, in the process cutting total storage needs in half. However, the danger is out-of-control snapshot proliferation that quickly grows beyond the ability of manual methods to manage adequately. The answer, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer, is ...
Wikibon: Latency/capacity tradeoff a growing storage issue
Storage was simple when spinning disks ruled the world, but today distinctions are drawn along such lines as disk versus flash, logical versus physical and local versus cloud. Underlying each category are the issues of latency versus capacity. That last distinction is becoming more important as data volumes, sources and types grow, writes Wikibon CTO ...
Is vCloud Air the EMC Federation’s premier cloud platform or just one of many? | #VMworld
Just how seriously should the industry – and more importantly EMC Federation customers – take VMware, Inc.’s vCloud Air? Is it a real competitor to infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) leaders like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and IBM Softlayer? Would medium-to-large customers be safe in making major commitments, for example for developing new core customer-facing applications, ...