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New Software-Based Solutions Can Boost VM Performance Without Expensive Hardware
Storage performance has become a major issue in virtual environments, writes Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe. The normal answer — flash server cards and arrays — are an expensive fix, particularly when they replace perfectly good disk systems. This year several vendors have appeared offering software-only solutions that can fix the problem for some users at ...
International Auctioneer Cuts Servers from 35 to 8, Saves 40% with Red Hat, IBM and Acronis
Bonhams auction house, a British-based international organization that has sold thousands of priceless antiques worldwide for more than 200 years, has been able to cut the total number of servers in its New York and San Francisco locations from 35 to 8 while creating a virtual machine backup and DR system between the two locations. By ...
IBM’s Now Factory Acquisition Latest Step in Aggressive Big Data Expansion
IBM today announced its intent to acquire Dublin-based The Now Factory, a privately held big data analytics company serving communications service providers (CSPs). The announcement comes days after its joint announcement with Deutsche Telekom of their collaboration to provide the IBM MobileFirst platform in the cloud to European SMB customers and a week after IBM’s ...
EMC Releases ViPR, Supports EMC and NetApp, Structured and Graph Data
EMC has announced general release of ViPR, its software-defined storage system (SDSS) initially promised at EMCWorld 2013 in May and pre-announced at an event in Barcelona in early September. ViPR features support for EMC VMAX, VNX, Isilon, VPLEX, and RecoverPoint and for NetApp arrays out of the box, with ENC ExtremeIO all-flash arrays scheduled to ...
YarcData Announces Major Update to NoSQL Engine
YarcData, a NoSQL data engine vendor subsidiary of Cray Inc., has announced a major upgrade to its Urika Big Data analytics appliance, based on graph analytics. It also announced alliances with BI tools vendors Centrifuge Systems and TIBCO as well as Hadoop-based analytics leader Cloudera. The new version of Urika integrates a list of standard interfaces including W3C industry ...
Oracle, Citrix, and Tableau, What is the Next Acquisition Target? #OOW13
Oracle is many things, and one of them, as Wikibon Chief Analyst and Co-Founder David Vellante is fond of saying on TheCUBE this week from Oracle OpenWorld 2013, is a huge cash generator. As Vellante says, it generates almost as much free cash annually as IBM, a much larger company. So where does that cash ...
IBM, Clustrix Say Oracle In-Memory Wrong Approach #OOW13
Larry Ellison is famous for shaking up the IT industry. Now at the opening to Oracle OpenWorld 2013 he seems to have done it again with his announcement of In-Memory analysis for Oracle’s Oracle 10c database. Readers can see live analysis and discussion of this and other announcements live from TheCUBE on the floor of Oracle ...
Violin Reintroduces GridIron Storage Appliance
Violin has reintroduced what appears to be the GridIron OneAppliance TurboCharger Storage Appliance, renamed the “Maestro Memory Appliance”, developed originally by GridIron, which Violin purchased in January, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer. However, Violin’s description is so fragmentary, possibly because the company is distracted by an impending IPO, from which it hopes to raise $144M-$188M, ...
CIOs: Consider Using Consultants, Cloud Services to Achieve Big Data Value
Nearly 50% of Big Data practitioners replying to a recent Wikibon survey report disappointing results from their Big Data projects, and an unfortunately 2% report total failures, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly. While companies generally expect $3-$4 of business value for every $1 of investment in Big Data systems, they are actually achieving ...
Oracle OpenWorld — 2013 or 1993? #OOW13
As the ironically named “Oracle OpenWorld 2013” looms, the big question is: How much longer can Oracle ignore the huge changes that are happening in the IT industry? And will Larry Ellison allow any concessions to the present realities of cloud, mobile, and especially Open Systems to creep into this year’s conference. Oracle provides strong ...