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Report finds operational impact is key to Big Data ROI
Wikibon research has demonstrated that most Big Data projects in 2014 actually lost money, returning an average of 55 cents on the dollar. However, a few companies stood out, with ROI of three times or more on their Big Data investments. Interviews with those companies show that one thing their Big Data projects have in ...
Wikibon says in-memory databases are vital for predictive analytics
While the astronomical growth in data volumes gets most of the attention in Big Data discussions, all that data has no value without fast analysis that drives actionable insights. Action, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly, is what creates the business value from Big Data. And in this increasingly digitized age, the opportunities are often fleeting. ...
Wikibon’s Floyer: Integrated catalogs vital for managing hybrid clouds
A comprehensive catalog of data and snapshots is vital for efficient use and management of resources in hybrid clouds. The catalog should show when the data was updated, mounted and deleted, when snapshots and snapshots of snapshots were created, which applications have been deployed against what data when and where the data and snapshots are ...
Opinion: Handicapping VMware’s bold new strategy
At VMworld 2014, VMware Corp. CEO Pat Gelsinger outlined a typically aggressive plan for the company’s post-hypervisor future, based on four initiatives: software-defined data center (SDDC), the vCloud Air hybrid cloud, an about-face on open source including Docker, Inc. and VMware Horizon Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS). One goal of this strategy is to keep VMware at the forefront ...
Flash storage to be cheaper than disk by 2016, Wikibon predicts
The price of flash storage has already dropped below that of high-speed disk while providing order-of-magnitude higher performance, and it’s on a trajectory to become a lower cost media than disk for almost all storage in 2016, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in a just-published report entitled “Evolution of All-Flash Array Architectures.” The combination of continuing ...
IBM cloud business on track to exceed expectations after $4B Q4
IBM said today that it has generated $4 billion in new multi-year enterprise cloud business since November 1, citing new agreements with Lufthansa, WWP, Thomson Reuters, Woox Innovations, Dow Walter, ABN Amro and Thomson Reuters. IBM’s cloud business is on track to “easily exceed the $7 billion we projected for 2015,” said Moe Abulda, vice president ...
Barcelona event shows HP has turned the corner
HP is back. That message from Hewlett-Packard Corp. Inc.’s annual Discover conference in Barcelona came over clearly in the three days of coverage on theCUBE and CrowdChat. Having paid down its debt down and stabilized its balance sheet, HP is starting to make strategic moves. It has completed a major stock buyback and made its first ...
HP, Microsoft team up in apparent comeback to IBM-Apple alliance
In a move that appears to be aimed at the new alliance between IBM and Apple, Hewlett-Packard Co. and Microsoft this morning announced an alliance to provide joint services for companies using the popular Microsoft Office 365 software-as-a-service offering. In his keynote at HP Discover in Barcelona, minutes after the announcement, Mike Nefkens, HP VP of ...
HP slowly turns as Discover 2014 Barcelona Opens
Facing its greatest business challenge in its nearly 80-year history, Hewlett-Packard Co. is facing pressure in its core businesses from hardware commoditization, cloud, infrastructure virtualization, and open source. While all the major traditional vendors are being disrupted by these and forces, HP’s financial misadventures and lack of consistent leadership in the decade before Meg Whitman arrived as CEO has ...
Data service providers say Amazon lets them focus on business, not infrastructure
A growing number of data service providers are moving their operations to Amazon Web Services to eliminate the distractions of buying, standing up and maintaining infrastructure and reallocating their staff to focus on their business. As examples, Wikibon Big Data lead analyst Jeff Kelly cites Philips Healthcare, which presented a keynote at the recent AWS re:Invent ...