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IBM internal experts club together to offer 2014 predictions
IBM has picked the brains of its industry experts to gain some high-level predictions for the coming year in four key areas: Analytics The world of Big Data and Business Analytics is changing dramatically. It is becoming pervasive across the business, built in to core operations and driving real time insights into business transactions to ...
VMware, Cisco square off in nascent SDN market
VMware NSX and Cisco ACI are the early leaders in the nascent software-defined network market mainly because of their positions in the marketplace, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Stuart Miniman in “VMware NSX and Cisco ACI lead the SDN conversation”. Hypervisor market leader VMware vaulted itself into a prominent position in SDN with its 2012 ...
2014 not the “year of VDI” #CIO Angle
The much heralded “year of VDI” will not happen in 2014 despite the huge popularity of BYOD and the technical issues that creates for CIOs, says Managing Consultant of The 1610 Group and Wikibon Analyst and frequent contributor in his Professional Alert, “CIOs Will Never See the Year of the Virtual Desktop”. Nor will 2015 ...
Hytrust’s Eric Chiu predicts security will dominate 2014 cloud discussions
In 2014, in the wake of the revelations of the comprehensive domestic and foreign spying efforts of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), organizations of all kinds will be bringing their own security to their public cloud installations, predicts Eric Chiu, president and cofounder of cloud infrastructure control and security company HyTrust. That security will ...
IBM Smarter Cities initiative: Using big data for better traffic flow
City living is making a come back, and with it has come increasing congestion, longer commutes, and bad air quality. IBM’s Smarter Cities Initiative aims to take the ever growing amount of real-time data—from traditional loop sensors and GPS on buses and trains to weather data, traffic cameras, and even feedback from smart phones—and combine ...
RainStor release offers security, encryption and fast search on Hadoop
RainStor has been delivering enterprise data storage for the last five years. Its latest version adds enhanced security and faster search capabilities. RainStor’s Database runs natively on Hadoop with no requirement to move data from one repository to HDFS. As data needs in highly regulated industries, such as banking and telecommunications, continues to double and ...
Lotus Notes 9 goes social with latest release
IBM’s latest update to its venerable e-mail system Lotus Notes, now called IBM Notes and Domino 9 Social Edition, is a major revision bringing with it an improved user interface and sophisticated collaboration features that incorporate social interaction. IBM has overhauled the user interface, added a browser plug-in that provides Web access to all Notes ...
Santa Claus moves to the cloud with HP
After a 2011 near disaster when a reindeer ate his list of who was naughty and who was nice, and feeling completely burned out in 2012, Santa Claus made an early resolution for 2013 to modernize his operations and chose HP as his partner, the company announced recently. “Santa called us in in November 2012,” ...
Rationalizing HP converged systems for operational savings
Converged systems can reduce IT operational costs, sped installation, and simplify management, writes Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “Revamped HP Convergence Aims to Simplify the Data Center and Expand Offerings”. However, he writes, the HP ConvergedSystem line, one of the leaders in the market, is complicated by multiple specialized systems for different uses ...
Roambi announces electronic document layout for the rest of us
Mobile device data visualization vendor Roambi has announced an electronic document layout program, Flow, that takes layout and control to the next step beyond Word without the complexity and cost of professional-level layout systems such as Adobe. In fact it is available free to subscribers of Roambi’s online data visualization creation service. Initially intended as ...