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Teradata buying a future in Big Data
Data warehouse heavyweight Teradata Operations, Inc., is buying its way into the future of Big Data, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly in his latest Professional Alert. Since 2011 Teradata has acquired Aster Data Systems, Hadapt (SQL-on-Hadoop) and Revalytics (Hadoop-focused data management). It also signed a partnership with Hortonworks, Inc. that includes deep technical ...
Database snapshots can cut backup costs, improve recovery points
Data backup costs can be decreased and recovery-time objectives (RTOs) improved by leveraging space-efficient database snapshots and a general-purpose catalog, writes Wikibon CEO and Co-founder David Vellante in his latest Professional Alert. Disk-based, purpose-built backup appliances using data deduplication, pioneered by DataDomain (now part of EMC Corp., Inc.), solved several problems but are still plagued ...
What investors can expect from Tableau’s 2-year R&D push
Tableau, Inc. users can expect major advances in data visualization on mobile devices and tools to prepare data for analysis as a result of company CEO Christian Chabot’s pledge at the company’s annual conference that Tableau will spend more on research and development (R&D) over the next two years than it has in the last decade. Investors, ...
Cloud services and virtual desktops round out VMware strategy
Ed. Note: This is the second of a two-part series on VMware’s transition plan for its future, as presented in interviews on theCUBE at VMworld 2014. The first part looked at the software-defined infrastructure and VMware’s embrace of open source software, specifically Docker. The third pillar in VMware’s platform for growth is vCloud Air, its hybrid ...
VMware lays out four-part growth strategy
As hypervisors move toward commodity status and competitors Microsoft Azure and open source KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) gain market share, VMware presented a vision of its future at the VMworld conference last week based on four initiatives: the software-defined data center (SDDC), open source including Docker, hybrid cloud, and virtualized desktops. SDDC . The most ...
Report says data location critical to hybrid cloud success
Data is heavy, and its location governs the optimal location of applications that need it in a hybrid cloud environment. This can determine the choice of architecture for a hybrid cloud, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in “Beyond Virtualization: From Consolidation to Orchestration and Automation.” Wikibon research has shown that for companies larger than a certain ...
Big Data practitioners need storyteller’s touch
Technical expertise is not enough to convince end-users to accept Big Data analysis, writes Jeff Kelly in his latest Wikibon Alert. Practitioners also need a story teller’s touch. Decision-makers are used to basing their strategies on their experience and knowledge, Kelly maintains. Convincing antitrust data over intuition is a struggle to begin with, particularly when results ...
theCUBE kicks off three days of streaming video with VMworld newsmakers
SiliconANGLE and Wikibon will bring theCUBE to VMworld 2014 in San Francisco beginning today for what promises to be one of the most exciting lineups of interviews in the mobile video studio’s five-year history. TheCUBE be stream its coverage of the trends reshaping IT beginning today at today at 10:30 a.m. PT and continuing through Wednesday. In ...
Oracle appliance gives more bang for fewer bucks
The Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) provides more value at significantly less cost than custom Oracle implementations on white box hardware for both integrators and their customers, writes Wikibon Co-Founder and Chief Technical Officer David Floyer in his latest Wikibon report. Returning to a favorite theme, how Single Managed Entities (SMEs) – complete stacks that include hardware, database, ...
Enterprise pros say cloud, Big Data prompting radical IT shifts
The convergence of cloud computing and Big Data analytics are generating some radical rethinking about the way IT infrastructure is deployed, judging from the comments of early adopters who were interviewed at Hewlett-Packard Co.’s HP Vertica Big Data Conference last week. Several practitioners outlined new corporate strategies based on the superior economics of the cloud or ...