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EMC Pivotal PaaS faces uphill battle against AWS
EMC Pivotal has a major challenge trying to wrest a significant share of the online development market from industry leader AWS, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in his latest Professional Alert, “Can EMC Pivotal Compete with AWS?” The core of this market is development of the new mobile-cloud applications that are providing organizations with new ...
Software-led architecture, DevOps promise more flexible, automated environment
The IT infrastructure of 2025, the result of software-led infrastructure, DevOps and other trends impacting IT today, will be a generation beyond today’s IT, writes consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “Software-Led Infrasturcture Will Elevate The Need for DevOps and Open CIO Opportunities“. It will be more application aware, disaster-resistant and business-friendly, in general ...
MarkLogic 7 leads NoSQL technology
MarkLogic 7 is the technology leader in the NoSQL field, writes Wikibon and Robert Frances Group Analyst Gary MacFadden in his latest Wikibon Professional Alert. Gartner agrees, positioning MarkLogic as the leading niche player in its just released Magic Quadrant for Operational Database Management Systems. The latest announcements, made at its Summit in New York ...
Big data meets HPC in production environments : Wikibon looks at four leading vendors
High Performance Computing (HPC) and Big Data analysis have several core requirements in common, writes Wikibon CTO and Cofounder David Floyer and Principal Research Contributor Stuart Miniman in “High performance computing meets big data“. These include high processor density, high-speed IO, power density sufficient to support the demanding HTC components, and automated high-availability solutions that ...
Software-Led Infrastructure Will Need Dev/Ops
Software-led architecture will increase the need for dev/ops to support more “aware” applications and react faster to the rapid changes and new possibilities of the new unified infrastructure, writes Wikibon analyst and consultant Scott Lowe. Tomorrow’s infrastructure will be software-aware, disaster-resistant, and business-friendly. Dev/Ops will bring a programatic attitude to IT operations and streamline the ...
64-bit ARM Signals Mobile Dominance of Client Computing
The successful start of volume production of the 64-bit ARM processor this month signals the start of the mobile/cloud era and end of the WinTel duopoly in end-user computing, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer. Apple is already introducing 64-bit with its A7 processor in the high volume iPhone S5, iPad Air, and iPad mini. Google, ...
Acunu Announces End-User Support for Streaming Data Analytics
Acunu, the pioneer in real-time Casandra-based streaming data analysis, has announced Acunu Analytics 5.0, which provides end-users with direct access to all its features as well as analytics dashboards on virtually any desktop or mobile device. Unlike other self-service BI tools like QlikView, which does not support Cassandra databases, or Tableau, which only provides one-off ...
MD Anderson Medical Center Announces Moon Shots Worldiwde Cancer Initiative
The University of Texas MD Anderson Medical Center and IBM Friday announced an ambitious plan to make the latest cancer research results, including ongoing trials, available to doctors worldwide. Anderson and IBM will attack the sometimes decade-long lag time between publication of research and its incorporation into general treatment for patients by making its Oncology ...
eXelate Builds Real-Time Ad Analytics Big Data System on Aerospike
Flash storage and new database platforms challenge CIOs and CTOs to redesign business services around real-time Big Data analytic and transactional systems to support new business models that are a key to business growth, writes Wikibon Co-Founder and CTO David Floyer in his Wikibon Alert “Real-time Big Data: eXelate Case Study.” eXelate is a pioneer ...
Roambi Brings Data Visualization to iOS 7
Mobile data analysis and visualization app developer Roambi today announced Analytic 7, a new version of its product for Apple iPads, iPhones, and iPod Touch devices, with a redesigned UI for iOS7 and a new user-configurable visualization template providing a user-configurable dashboard. The new more minimalist UI is a complete redesign for iOS7 and follows ...