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Server SAN poised to disrupt storage markets
Server SAN, software-defined storage directly attached to commodity servers, will disrupt the storage market, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in “The Rise of Server SAN”. In the hyperscale server provider marketplace, it is core technology for services such as Amazon’s S3, EC2 Block Storage Volumes, and Glacier. Server SAN is now entering enterprise data centers, ...
Single managed entities can save 53% over traditional infrastructure
Licensing the Oracle Supercluster running the Oracle E-Business Suite as a single managed entity (SME) can save companies up to 53% of the total cost over the traditional approach of buying piece-parts, writes Wikibon CTO and Co-Founder David Floyer in “Case Study: Oracle E-Business Suite and SuperCluster Reach for Single Managed Entity.” This essentially creates ...
Hyperscale whitebox network architectures becoming accessible for some
Google’s publication of its Andromeda network stack and the market introduction of hardware-independent network switch operating systems from Cumulus Networks and others is making hyperscale networking based on white box switches more practical for at least of subset of enterprises, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Stuart Miniman in “Networking in Hyperscale Environments”. The cost of ...
VCE passes $1B with 50% year-to-year growth
The sometimes underestimated VCE alliance of VMware, Cisco and EMC had 50% year-over-year growth in 2013 and surpassed $1B in annual revenues. It has 800+ customers in 57 countries and has sold 1,700 Vblocks. That growth verifies Wikibon’s forecast that converged infrastructure will account for two-thirds of infrastructure sales by 2017, writes Wikibon Principal Research ...
Big Data needs more cloud-based managed services
Despite its strong association with the cloud, most Big Data deployments are in private data centers, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly in “For Big Data to Thrive in the Cloud, More Managed Services Required”. This creates a couple of issues. First, many Big Data use cases are built on large volumes of data ...
CIOs: Plan mega-datacenter migration now
Every two or three years Wikibon CTO and Co-Founder David Floyer writes a piece of research that defines the next major strategic shift in CIO thinking. Last week he published the latest of these, “Mega-Centers are the Future”. In it he presents a list of cogent arguments for why within 10 years all medium-to-large organizations ...
Mega-Datacenters to revolutionize IT as we know it
Within 10 years most medium-to-large companies, including the largest enterprises in the world, will have closed their internal data centers and moved all their computing to large colocation/IaaS centers run by companies like Amazon AWS and IBM, writes Wikibon Co-founder and CTO David Floyer in his latest Wikibon Alert, “Mega-Datacenters are the Future”. In his ...
AWS ignites the business cloud services market
In my earlier column I raised the question of whether AWS would expand into the traditional enterprise computing area. This week’s announcements at the AWS Summit in San Francisco answered that question with an emphatic “Yes!” And IBM, EMC and HP will have to up their game to hold onto their market. First AWS announced dramatic ...
AWS Summit should provide guidance for companies in market for cloud services #theCUBE #AWS Summit
Today’s one-day AWS Summit in San Francisco, which will be covered by theCUBE with a day of interviews of key players, comes at a particularly interesting moment in the development of the high-growth business-to-business cloud services market. For the last two years AWS has been growing at a phenomenal rate, with no sign that that ...
Mobile market in flux
With all the news about Big Data and cloud services, the mobile market has taken a back seat in the news and probably in the minds of many CIOs in recent months. But mobile remains important, both as a major driver of the other trends revolutionizing IT and as an increasing part of the corporate ...