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IBM’s Vision message: democratized data analysis #IBMvision
The message that IBM brought to theCUBE from its Vision 2015 conference in Orlando last week was democratized data analysis. With its Watson Cognitive Computing platform in particular, and with other analysis tools like Cognos and SPSS in its arsenal, IBM says it is making deep analysis of huge volumes of data of different types ...
Wikibon: Software redefines competition
Software is becoming the focus not just of IT but often of the business, as smartphones and the Web become increasingly central to customers’ lives and therefore an important conduit for providing products and services in multiple markets. New software technologies and methodologies can make business much more agile and better able to respond to ...
IBM played the open, high performance cards at Edge #IBMEdge
IBM put all its hardware and middleware on display this year at its fourth annual Edge conference. Originally a storage show, this year it h\was expanded to cover the new System z13 mainframe and Power8 servers and associated software. Overall it made a strong showing, parading users across the main stage and putting them on ...
Analyst reflects on four-year Big Data rocket ride
Big Data has grown from a promise into a business reality in the last four years, writes former Wikibon Analyst Jeff Kelly in his final Wikibon Professional Alert. Kelly (below right) left Wikibon on Friday for another opportunity. When Kelly joined Wikibon in 2011, Big Data was still in its technological infancy, with core technologies like ...
Ask a Wikibon Analyst: Is disk dead?
With the cost of NAND flash storage dropping like a rock, driven by massive demand in consumer electronics, the storage industry is in the midst of major technological disruption. NAND flash is 1,000 times faster than spinning disk in reads and writes. It’s a fraction of the size, uses a fraction of the power and ...
Beyond hybrid cloud – enterprises need composite cloud, says Wikibon analyst
Hybrid cloud is the latest trend in enterprise computing, but hybrid cloud is much too limited and inflexible to meet the fast evolving needs of the enterprise. Hybrid cloud presumes one on-premise cloud and one off-premise cloud on an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platform such as Amazon Web Services, IBM/SmartCloud, Microsoft Azure, or Rackspace, Inc.. In fact, ...
East African consumer goods manufacturer turns to IBM to support 5-year, 4X growth plan
Kenyan-based food and consumer goods manufacturer and distributor Bidco Africa, Ltd., plans to become the number one supplier of consumer goods including cooking oils, baking products, detergents, personal care and beauty products and animal feeds, across Africa by 2030. To do that, says Bidco CEO Vimal Shah, it needs to grow 400 percent over the ...
Why Flash-as-Memory-Extension is the future of enterprise storage
For decades, storage read/write speed was the gating factor for data center performance. In the last three years that has changed with the advent of NAND flash storage, with nanosecond I/O response times that are fast enough to keep up with modern processors. As a result, the new performance gating factor is the storage area network ...
Wikibon: Hybrid cloud requires unified user ID
As enterprises move to hybrid architectures that combine their traditional on-premise systems and new cloud services, they need to move to a single unified user identification and access management system (see graphic on right). Relying on multiple identification systems that require users to log in separately to different services on different devices turns what is ...
MIT’s McAfee: Second machine age will be ‘much bigger than the Net’
As the Second Machine Age (2MA) – driven by digital technologies like cloud, AI and robotics – accelerates innovation, MIT’s Andrew McAfee admits to having some concerns about whether people can keep up but says “I worry even more about trying to halt or channel progress.” The guest of honor at a public CrowdChat last week, ...