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SAS moves analytics suite to AWS to stay relevant in the Big Data era
In its latest effort to remain relevant in the age of Big Data, the SAS Institute of Cary, N.C., has moved several of its advanced analytics packages to Amazon Web Services (AWS), writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly. The privately held analytics vendor, founded in 1976, remains popular with statisticians and business analysts in financial ...
IBM unveils patent for cloud data location management system
CIOs considering moving core applications to the cloud are often concerned about losing control of their data. Today IBM is announcing a new technology that can allow them to control exactly where their data is stored by an IaaS or SaaS provider. The technology – “geographic governance of data over clouds”: U.S. patent number 8,676,593 ...
With new array, IBM says flash set to displace disk
IBM today announced its latest all-flash array, the V840 virtualized storage system with 1.6 Petabyte compressed storage capacity (320 TB total usable un-compressed flash capacity) in a single 6U array. IBM says the new system provides a five-fold performance improvement over its IBM predecessor and 1.2 million input/output operations per second (IOPS). IBM is positioning ...
Report: Amazon feeling the competitive heat in cloud services
Microsoft Corp. and IBM Corp. have made significant gains in the fast growing markets for platform-as-a-service (PaaS), infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), software-as-a-service (SaaS), and related businesses, according to a new report from market watcher Synergy Research Group. (See graph below.) The report shows Microsoft’s cloud-related business growing 164 percent year-to-year in the second quarter of 2014 (2Q14) ...
Review: Surface Pro 2 skillfully bridges tablet-laptop gap
The Microsoft Surface Pro 2 is a tablet on steroids, the coolest, best designed laptop replacement to hit the office. Not for casual users, this machine says its owner is a step ahead. From the Windows icon on its frame that is actually an inductive button that returns you to the start page from anywhere, to ...
MIT CDOIQ promises strong overview of Big Data issues
TheCUBE this week goes to MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the Chief Data Officer Information Quality (MDOIQ) conference Wednesday and Thursday, providing comprehensive coverage of the challenges of Big Data, from ensuring data quality to information governance. TheCUBE will webcast all the general sessions and Wikibon CEO and Co-Founder David Vellante and Wikibon Principal Research Contributor ...
Professional services integral to Big Data projects
Businesses should look to professional services for expert help in all phases of Big Data implementations, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor and Big Data analyst Jeff Kelly in “Professional Services Play an Integral Role in Big Data Engagements”. More than 70 percent of high level executives in 303 companies responding to a recent Wikibon survey ...
Drowning in data with no way forward?
Big Data is both a potential source of business advantage and of liability for companies, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in “The Growth and Management of Unstructured Data.” Over the next few years the volume of Big Data companies are expected to capture – including log files, unstructured office documents and audio and video such ...
To control storage costs, aim services at “the fat middle”
Companies and service providers designing cloud services to control costs should aim at the “fat middle” of the application population, with a goal of reducing storage costs 50 percent for 80 percent of applications, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in “The Challenges of Enabling Low-cost Enterprise Cloud Storage Services”. The “fat middle” is made up ...
Life is like a tennis match; IBM brings mobile and analytics muscle to Wimbledon experience
Before I got out of bed this morning I checked the latest scores from Wimbledon on my smart phone and also listened to the match between French star Alize Cornet, who defeated number 1 seed Serena Williams on Friday, and Canadian Eugenie Bouchard. Later I checked the statistical analysis for the match between Andy Murray and ...