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Hadoop/NoSQL Market in High Growth Stage, May Run Low on Capital
The Hadoop/NoSQL market topped $540 M in vendor revenues in 2012 and will grow at a 45% CAGR to $3.5 B in five years, not including hardware revenue, predicts Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly. While the vendor mix ranges from startup pure-play developers such as Cloudera and 10Gen to dominant vendors such as IBM ...
Save 80% of Lifetime Ops Costs with Converged Infrastructure
Converged infrastructure can save CIOs about 80% of lifetime hardware operational, testing, and planning costs. That is the result of a new Wikibon study published by Wikibon CTO David Floyer. This figure is not specific to any one converged topology, and Floyer found that none of the choices are “bad” and IT shops have places ...
VMware Faces Uphill Fight in VDI Marketplace
VMware is an incredible company that has grown from nothing in the last decade to be a driving force in the revolution that is sweeping through IT. And Pat Gelsinger, who took over as CEO last year, is a true visionary who has made dramatic changes that have on the whole made VMware stronger. The ...
VDI Now!
One of the most important messages of VWworld 2013 to CIOs is you need VDI, not in 18 months, but now. And if you are not implementing VDI right now, be assured that at least some of your business units will be signing contracts with VDI-as-a-Service vendors before the end of the year. How important ...
VMware Moves Up the Virtualization Stack #VMworld
If the question at the start of VMware 2013 Monday morning was where VMware was headed in the coming year, company CEO Pat Gelsinger has answered it: VMware is moving up the virtualization stack with tools and APIs to facilitate integration between virtualized data center environments and cloud services in a hybrid cloud architecture. While ...
CIOs Need a Corporate Plan for the Cloud
CIOs who do not have a corporate plan for getting maximum business advantage from the Cloud are dangerously behind the times, and those who think that nobody in their company is using Cloud services are in denial. That is the thrust of a report on the state of cloud services by guest analyst and Senior ...
As VMworld Opens, Where is VMware Going?
As VMworld 2013 opens in San Francisco this morning, VMware dominates the virtualization vertical. But the big question that it needs to answer over the next three days is: How will it maintain that dominance, and where does it go from here? VMware’s central place in the industry is built on its technical superiority to ...
Ballmer Era Ends, Setting Microsoft Free
Yesterday’s surprise announcement of Microsoft CIO Steve Ballmer’s impending retirement should be good news for the company and for its fans if it also signals the end of his “One Microsoft” policy that has chained the company to the past exactly when it needs to be the most agile, says Wikibon Co-founder and CTO David ...
Hypervisor Market Approaching Crossroads #VMworld
As VMworld 2013 opens, the hypervisor market is approaching a directional decision point. A lot is happening, with software-led networking, software-defined storage, and of course the perennial VDI all waiting in the wings while the market continues to digest server virtualization. Nearly a decade after virtualization appeared with the proven keys to huge CapEx savings ...
Vertica the Bright Star in a Dismal Quarter for HP
Vertica is the one bright star in what otherwise is a dismal quarter for HP that saw CEO Meg Whitman warn of a no-growth fiscal year and announce a management shake-up in HP’s Enterprise Group, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly. HP reported an 8 percent year-to-year revenue decrease to $27.2B for the quarter ...