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Server SAN simplifies storage
A new combined server and storage architecture is emerging from the large cloud hyperscale companies that promises to simplify storage while combining many of the core advantages of DAS and SAN, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Stuart Miniman in “Server SAN Market Definition”. This new architecture is extremely scalable and simple to manage. As a ...
Attunity provides unique advantages in meeting big data integration challenges
Integration of data of multiple types (structured, unstructured, semistructured) and formats is one of the major challenges of big data, particularly when the requirement is for real-time data analysis, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor and Big data Analyst Jeff Kelly in “Attunity Adapts Change Data Capture for Big Data Analytics”. To truly be “real time” ...
IBM invests $1 billion in revolutionary Watson cognitive computing engine
Calling IBM Watson the first system in a new era of computing, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty announced Thursday morning a $1 billion-plus, multi-year investment in Watson, the first cognitive computing technology. The infusion includes the formation of a new Watson Group with 2,000 employees and a new headquarters for the group in the East Village ...
How to cut costs of Oracle operations in half
Leading IT shops are cutting the cost of running their large Oracle Red Stacks by 40-50 percent by using a combination of converged systems, Oracle best practices, and flash storage, writes WIkibon Cofounder and CTO David Floyer in “Duplicating Public Cloud Economics for Oracle DBAs”. This rivals operating cost savings companies achieve by moving systems ...
HP Moonshot finding place in cloud, high performance computing #CIOAngle
At the end of HP Discover Europe in early December I wrote that HP’s internal application of its Moonshot hyperscale technology was impressive, but the presentation left me wondering if this revolutionary technology was finding customers outside HP. Janet Bartleson, group manager for hyperscale portfolio marketing at HP, was kind enough to answer my question ...
Warp 10 Mr. Sulu — engage flash
Moving to NAND flash can increase workload performance by an average of 7.2X, with some workloads going beyond 10X, according to a survey of 777 Fusion-io customers, writes Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Ralph Finos in “How Much Business Performance Can Flash Technology Deliver”. This huge performance jump can help organizations achieve Rapid Response-time Company (RARC) ...
CIOs racing business transformation to stay relevant
CIOs are always under fire, that is just a fact of life, writes Consultant, former CIO, and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “Four Sobering Facts that CIOs Must Face in 2014”. The latest evidence of that is the new position of chief digital officer (CDO) that some companies are creating, even as they continue to ...
2013 cloud experience provides tough lessons for CIOs
Public cloud services are growing steadily in popularity among CIOs despite continued skepticism from some. But, warns Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “Four Tough Cloud Lessons We Learned in 2013”, while the cloud provides substantial benefits to IT operations, recent experience shows that it also introduces some risk to operations. Lowe cites four ...
2014: We are living through interesting times | #CIO Angle
Making predictions is almost as traditional at New Year’s as countdowns to midnight. So here are some of mine: We live in interesting times: The multiple forces buffeting the IT industry — cloud, mobile, flash storage, virtualization and software-led everything, converged systems, big data — will only strengthen through the year. IT will spend the ...
Microsoft versus VMware — dead-heat death match
Microsoft has attained near-parity with VMware in hypervisor functionality and is ahead in basic cloud offerings, writes Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “An Analysis of the Microsoft vs VMware Landscape.” While VMware continues to dominate the market, Microsoft is eating into that lead and clearly has ambitions to replace VMware as the leading ...