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Confused over Big Data tools and databases? Wikibon’s George Gilbert provides answers
Not long ago the database technology question was simple – the answer was RDBMS, and the only question was Oracle or an alternative. Then Big Data happened. Suddenly CIOs and CTOs are being bombarded with new data types – social media, GPS, Internet-of-Things – and a tsunami of technology choices that promise to handle them ...
Wikibon view: IBM legitimizing Spark to compete with Hadoop
IBM has legitimized Spark and wants to shift the axis of Big Data processing, the way it did the operating system world when it committed to Linux across all its platforms 16 years ago, writes Wikibon Big Data analyst George Gilbert. Back then the competition for Linux was several proprietary flavors of Unix and the ...
Red Hat flying high as big customer event opens next week
Red Hat, Inc. executives should be buoyant as its annual Red Hat Summit opens in Boston next week. Lifted by yesterday’s strong earnings report and the exploding popularity of open source software, the biggest challenges the open-source company faces now are how to sustain momentum. With revenues expected to top $2 billion this year, and a market cap ...
Wikibon: Key ingredient of future storage architecture is leadership, not tiering
Too many well-established, well-meaning, talented storage executives are approaching flash as a faster high-performance tier 1 disk rather than as a revolutionary new technology that changes the entire game, writes Wikibon Co-founder and CTO David Floyer in his latest Wikibon Premium Alert. He quotes practitioners as saying, for example, “It is key that the important ...
Wikibon: Systems of Intelligence will underpin data-driven business #HadoopSummit
A new kind of application, called Systems of Intelligence, is evolving to provide real-time data analysis to support business decision-making on a micro-scale, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst George Gilbert. Amazon.com and Google provide early examples of these systems, which are already changing customer expectations of service. Watch Gilbert in action on theCUBE from ...
Wikibon: Server SAN poised to radically simplify enterprise storage | #NextConf
The Server SAN (storage-area network) architecture that Wikibon first described last year can greatly simplify the way infrastructure is purchased and managed, but it requires changes in the way IT thinks about technology budgeting and deployment that will be difficult for many organizations to manage, according to a new Wikibon reports. Server SAN is a software-managed ...
Ask a Wikibon Analyst: How flash storage will revolutionize business
Storage experts often say that NAND flash is a disruptive technology. Certainly flash is much faster than disk, but to be disruptive, it needs to be more than a faster disk drive. So I asked Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer how flash will disrupt the data center. “My vision of the flash architecture is ...
Wikibon: Future looks bright for OpenStack #OpenStackSummit
Last week’s OpenStack Summit showcased a vibrant developer organization and a healthy, growing user community that includes big names like Wal-mart Stores, Inc., Comcast Corp. and eBay, Inc. So despite some press reports that OpenStack is floundering, it actually is striding toward a bright future, writes Wikibon Analyst Stuart Miniman. The OpenStack Foundation used the ...
Wikibon: Top 10 reasons to migrate to all-flash data centers now
Wikibon has been urging CIOs to re-architect their data centers around all-flash arrays for several months. Wikibon Co-founder and CTO David Floyer, in particular, has published several pieces of analysis demonstrating the compelling value of moving to an all-flash architecture, with primary flash storage moved physically as close to the servers as possible to minimize ...
What questions about the HP split will be answered at #HPDiscover 2015?
Breaking up, as Neil Sedaka sang, is hard to do. It also takes time, particularly when it involves cleaving a Fortune 15 company in two. There have been few details about the breakup of Hewlett-Packard Co., which was originally announced last October. What the split means for the future of HP, its partners and customers will be ...