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Companies should upgrade to Microsoft UC 2013 ASAP
The functionality and performance improvements of Microsoft Exchange 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Linc 2013, on top of Windows 2012, create compelling arguments for business and government users to upgrade to Windows Unified Communications 2013 as soon as possible, writes Wikibon CTO and Cofounder David Floyer in “Duplicating Public Cloud Economics for Microsoft Unified Communications”. While ...
How to cut 40 percent from Oracle’s big bite of the IT budget
Converged systems, flash storage, virtualization and other best practices can reduce the net costs of a typical Oracle system by 41 percent, writes Wikibon Cofounder and CTO David Floyer in his latest Wikibon report, “Duplicating Public Cloud Economics for Oracle Database Infrastructure”. However, achieving maximum benefit from this best practice architecture requires reorganizing the IT ...
Big Data is for everyone, not just data geeks #BigDataSV 2014 #CIOangle
With all the huge changes assaulting us every day — cloud and social computing services like Twitter, Facebook and Google+, mobile computing, cyber bullying, NSA spying and the erosion of privacy, etc. — for most people Big Data may seem like something for the data geeks. That is a mistake. Big Data sits at the ...
Data economy survival demands informed strategies | #BigDataSV
As if the CIO’s plate isn’t full enough with mobile, cloud services and software-defined architectures, we are entering a whole new economy where data will be the most valuable commodity and CIOs and whole corporations will rise or fall based on how well they exploit the zittabytes of data flooding the enterprise. In this new ...
Big Data Market Reaches $18.6 B, heading for $50 B in 2017
The Big Data market reached $18.6 billion in 2013, a 58 percent growth rate over 2012, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor and Big Data Analyst in his just released “Big Data Vendor Revenue and Market Forecast 2013-2017”. Big Data-related services revenue makes up 40% of the total, with hardware at 38% and software at 22%. ...
Qubole delivers Big Data from the public cloud | #BigDataSV
Qubole has built a Hadoop managed service on AWS that allows its customers to focus on deriving the most business value from their data without worrying about building new infrastructure and hiring new staff to run it, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly in “Qubole Tries to Up-level the Hadoop Conversation with Managed Cloud Service“. ...
Big data infrastructure goes far beyond Hadoop #BigDataSV
Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly provides an inclusive basic tutorial of the big data environment, including technologies, skill sets, and use cases, in “Big Data: Hadoop, Business Analytics and Beyond”, and while the environment starts with Hadoop and Map Reduce, it extends far beyond that. While parts of this report may seem basic to ...
In the data economy analytics is king #BigDataSV 2014
We are entering the era of the data economy, when organizations will succeed or fail based largely on their ability to leverage data and analytics, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor and Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly in “The Data Economy Manifesto”. By 2020 the big data technology products and services market will grow to $50 ...
Server market realignment | The #CIOangle
The server market is in the midst of a radical realignment, the likes of which have not been seen since the shakeout of the 1980s that saw most of the minicomputer makers, including Prime Computer, Data General and Digital Equipment Corp., disappear, devastating the Boston high tech corridor. And while the writing has been on ...
IBM sells 10,000th PureSystem, promises no disruption from Lenovo deal
IBM last week announced the sale of the 10,000th PureSystem integrated system since the announcement of the converged system line in April 2012. While the stand-alone server market is shrinking, the converged system market in general is growing steadily – a recent IDC report puts market growth at 68 percent per year and IBM PureSystem’s ...