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Analysis: Can Oracle Survive the Big Data avalanche?
Oracle Corp. faces severe challenges from Big Data on three major fronts: It will see a steady erosion of its income as the market moves to Big Data technologies that Wikibon estimates cost a third of traditional RDBMS technology. Second, Oracle needs to move up the stack to survive in the Big Data economy, as the core database ...
Wikibon says Dell’s converged architecture cuts VDI costs 25%
The new converged virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) announced recently by Dell and Nutanix can cut 25 percent off the total lifetime cost of a large VDI infrastructure writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer. Floyer cites an example of the total three-year cost of a typical white-box VDI system for an initial 400 desktops, expanding to 640 ...
Wikibon says Amazon is revolutionizing IT economics
“Amazon has turned the data center into an API,” writes Wikibon CEO David Vellante in his latest Professional Alert. This, along with Amazon’s aggressive pricing, rapid pace of innovation and willingness to forego profits indefinitely while investing proceeds back into capital expenditures, is revolutionizing IT for both big systems vendors and IT practitioners. In particular, Vellante ...
Opinion: AWS rumors explained as major news is expected at re:Invent
As the Amazon re:Invent conference kicked off this week, rumors of major new business announcements from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and Amazon.com Inc. are swirling around Amazon Web Services (AWS). Another rumor predicts AWS will announce an on-premise appliance as a play for the growing hybrid-cloud market. theCUBE will be at Amazon re:Invent starting today ...
Evaluate Hadoop supplier partnership strategies when choosing a Big Data partner
Companies moving beyond the pilot phase of their Big Data projects need to evaluate the partnership strategies of the Hadoop suppliers when picking a vendor, writes Wikibon.org Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly. Hadoop is a foundational technology for the modern data architecture due to its ability to support analytics on data of any structure and to scale ...
Survey says few Big Data analytics projects paying off – yet
While media coverage focus on a few spectacular Big Data successes, giving the impression that Big Data analytics is “as easy as collecting some data, deploying an application or two and waiting for the ‘game-changing’ insights to start rolling in,” the reality is that the average project returns just 55 cents for every dollar invested, according ...
Microsoft endorses Docker
Microsoft is lending its considerable presence to the Docker express. The company today announced that future versions of Windows Server will support the application container technology. The strategic partnership with Docker Inc. means that organizations running Windows Server in mixed and virtualized infrastructures will be able to move containerized applications quickly between Windows Server and other environments, ...
Wikibon report calls inline data reduction a performance ‘lifeline’ for storage arrays
Flash storage in some hybrid arrays can cost four times as much per gigabyte as it does in all-flash arrays, putting traditional vendors at a major disadvantage in the emerging marketplace. All-flash arrays depend on aggressive, 6:1 inline data reduction (DRe) technologies to bring their cost per Gbyte closer to that of spinning media. However, ...
Opinion: Consumerization boosting user interface quality for all
Since the first commercial computers of the 1950s the user interface (UI) has been the ugly stepchild of corporate software. Always the last component to be designed, UIs are often boring, forms-based, and difficult to use, said Infor, Inc. CEO Charles Philips in an interview on theCUBE from Inform 2014. Part of the reason, as ...
Opinion: theCUBE covers Oracle OpenWorld at critical time
Today theCUBE kicks off three days of coverage of Oracle OpenWorld 2014 at a critical time in Oracle Corp.’s history. Like many of the old-line vendors, Oracle is seeing its markets shift radically beneath it. Once-stable business foundations are cracking under the pressure from open source, Big Data, mobile and cloud. To remain a strong ...