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Converged Storage Becomes Strategic as IT Seeks Simplicity, Agility
IT shops seeking to simplify their administration, refocus on higher level areas in the technology stack, and increase agility, are turning to converged systems writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Stuart Miniman. Converged hardware can help IT break the traditional silos and move towards simpler architectures. It provides a stable foundation that extends the value of virtualization ...
Green Light for Oracle Database Virtualization
Despite official signals to the contrary, Wikibon community members report that Oracle support for virtualization of Oracle databases using non-Oracle hypervisors “has been stellar”, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer. As a result of that and the clear business value of virtualization, he estimates that 55 percent of Oracle production databases are now virtualized with the ...
Tape, Flash Squeeze Disk Storage Market
In his latest Professional Alert, Wikibon CTO David Floyer envisions a future in which disk drives become increasingly rare as flash becomes the preferred storage medium for all active data, while virtually all inactive data, as well as all archives and data backups, go on tape. And that future may not be far off. Investment ...
IBM Announces $1 Billion Linux Investment
IBM this morning announced a multi-year, $1 billion investment in Linux on Power Systems that will include a new developer center in Montpellier, France, for European Linux developers and a new Linux on Power development cloud that is available free of charge to developers. This is in addition to the string of major Linux announcements ...
Analysts Have Power to Change the World Says Tableau CEO
Data combined with insight can change the world for the better, Tableau CEO and Cofounder Christian Chabot told a rapt audience of 8,300 users and senior IT executives at the Tableau User Conference. He started his speech on how to change the world with a simple, hand written spreadsheet tracking deaths in a hospital in ...
Tableau Conference Like No Other
In part this was because the vast majority of attendees — probably 70 percent or more — where end-users — business, financial and other kinds of professional data analysts — rather than CIOs or others attending primarily to gather information on product upgrades, add-ons, and the vendor’s direction. For them this was an educational conference, ...
Tableau Announces Mac Support, R Integration
At the Tableau User Conference at National Harbor in Maryland, company Cofounders CEO Christian Chabot and CDO Chris Stoite announced a laundry list of upcoming improvements and additions to the popular data analysis and visualization platform to a cheering crowd of 3,200 customers, mostly end-users, and 700 employees. The big announcements include a version of ...
Unisys Announces Migration to Intel Xeon with 20 Percent Performance Boost
Unisys Corp. kicks off Unisys Universe 2013 in Chicago this morning by announcing milestones from its proprietary CMOS processing platform to Intel Xeon. The announcements include a new top-end ClearPath server based on Intel Xeon technology that provides 20 percent higher performance, based on Unisys standard benchmark testing, over its highest performing CMOS platform. ClearPath ...
NAND Flash Taking Over Storage, But New Technologies Snapping at its Heals
NAND Flash is taking over storage of the most active data, but it has a very long way to go to replace disk, and new technologies are snapping at its heals. Flash is an order of magnitude faster than disk, lasts longer, and overall costs less than spinning disks. It is fast conquering tier 1 ...
Microsoft Nokia Buy Could Be Brilliant Gamble
Microsoft’s purchase of Nokia is a gamble with a good chance of a big payday, writes Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe. The purchase did not come as a surprise in the industry, where the question was why Microsoft didn’t buy Nokia rather than just partnering with it over Windows Phone in the first place. The purchase gives ...