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AWS builds business on hyper-specialization @re:Invent
The use of standardized commodity hardware, with software adding all the value, is generally seen as one of the key components of the hyperscale architectures used by the very large cloud service providers such as Google, Facebook and Yahoo! AWS, however, uses a different strategy, hyper-specialized hardware, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Stu Miniman in ...
Hadoop pure-play vendors face major challenges in 2014
Customers are confused about the business models, and particularly the Hortonworks model, in the Hadoop market, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly in “Hadoop Pure-Play Business Models Explained”. The main source of this confusion comes from a misunderstanding of where Hortonworks makes its money. As a pure-play vendor supplying pure Apache Hadoop with no ...
HP Discover reveals strengths, weaknesses in corporate strategy #HPDiscover
At the start of this week’s HP Discover Europe 2013 in Barcelona I wrote that HP is facing a major inflection point in its history, one that will determine whether it will remain a Fortune 15 company and one of the dominant forces in the IT industry or start to fade into legacy or commodity ...
“Same old” won’t cut it for HP in PC/mobile market | #HPDiscover
Sometimes what people don’t say is as significant as what they do. One of the most urgent problems facing HP CEO Meg Whitman as she works to gain the trust of the financial markets and build a future for the vendor is what to do about its end-user and consumer devices. So far she has ...
CloudStack, OpenStack, AWS-stack : Which stack?
Since the Hong Kong Design Summit, speculation about the future of the public and private cloud platform market, and specifically OpenStack, has been rampant, writes Wikibon contributor and SolidFire Director of Strategic Alliances David Cahill in “Stack Wars: Playing all year at a cloud near you“. The inevitable subject of debate is how viable OpenStack ...
HP faces defining moment as it opens Discover 2013 Barcelona #HPDiscover
The global technology market will be watching HP as it opens up for Discover 2013 in Barcelona Spain, which will be covered live on SiliconANGLE.tv. HP is in the middle innings of its five-year financial and innovation strategy turnaround. HP, many believe, is facing a deciding moment in its history, one that could determine whether ...
VMware VSAN creating buzz around hyperconverged infrastructure
VMware’s release of the first beta of its VSAN virtualization software for server-based flash storage and disks is creating a surge of interest in hyperconverged infrastructure, writes Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “VMware VSAN vs the Simplicity of Hyperconvergence”. Although not itself a hyperconverged system, VSAN allows users to create a software-led environment ...
Seattle Children’s Hospital turns to Brightlight, IBM to liberate its data
Hospital IT shops live in a world of their own, dominated by systems that are often the opposite of open and where combining data from the patient care and financial management systems is a major challenge. That is exactly what the Seattle Children’s Hospital, one of the top 10 children’s hospitals in the country according ...
SDS no ticket to cheap hardware
Software-defined storage (SDS) is not the end of hardware warns Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “Software defined Storage Does Not Mean the End of Hardware Costs“. Actually, most vendors, including Scale Computing, Nutanix and SimpliVity, only offer SDS either as part of their own appliances, and those that offer only the software, like ...
Built-in hardware telemetry means better service for ITOs
CIOs should insist on built-in data telemetry on system performance in any new data arrays they buy, writes Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “CIOs Should Require Analytics As part of Vendor Infrastructure Support“. Advanced telemetry is a mainstream trend in the industry already, with HP, Nimble Storage, NetApp and other vendors offering it, ...