Bert Latamore
Latest from Bert Latamore
VMware Dominant Going into #VMworld
As VMware heads into VMworld 2013, it is in a dominant position in the virtualization market, comparable to Microsoft on the desktop in 1990 or IBM in 1970, with continuing strong growth ahead of it. And while Microsoft’s Hyper-V seems to be growing faster at present and may improve its market share over the next ...
NaviSite Announces Advanced IaaS Powered by vCloud #VMworld
Managed service and cloud computing provider NaviSite this morning has announced NaviCloud Director, an advanced IaaS service built around VMware’s vCloud Director and designed to support advanced applications and hybrid computing environments. It gives customers access to VMware’s APIs and development environment and supports customer customization of their networking architecture to map specifically to their ...
SimpliVity Announces Deep Stack Converged Infrastructure Alternative
Startup SimpliVity has announced a set of converged infrastructure products designed for multiple-box scalability that goes beyond competing offerings from the large vendors, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Stuart Miniman. Specifically, SimpliVity’s OmniStack include backup/dedup, WAN optimization, cloud gateway functionality, and both SSD and flash caching on top of the normal integrated storage, network, compute, ...
HotLink Announces First VMware Disaster Recovery System at Basic Backup Cost #VMworld
Hybrid virtualization management developer HotLink Corp. has announced HotLink DR Express, which allows users to backup VMs to AWS and, when disaster strikes, run those VMs remotely on Amazon, providing rapid disaster recovery for an upfront backup cost of $25 per VM per month on an annual subscription (not including recovery costs). Users backup their ...
Hortonworks’ New Windows Hadoop Platform Win for Both Companies and Users
Hortonworks’ August 13 announcement of Data Platform 1.3, a version of standard Hadoop version that runs native on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012, is a win for users and for both Hortonworks and Microsoft, writes Wikibon Principal Research Contributor and Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly. First it is a win for the ...
Tableau Shows Spectacular Growth in First Quarter Out of the Box
In its first quarter as a public company, Tableau Software hit the ball out of the park, with revenues of $49 million, 71 percent year-over-year growth. It signed up more than 1,500 new customers, growing its customer base to 13,500 in more than 100 countries, and expects full year revenues of $198 million to 202 ...
IBM Alliances Shaking Up Industry, Promise New Generation Products for Users
At IBM Edge in June, when Ambuj Goyal spoke about how IBM had to be an open systems company “because today no one company can do anything” I, and I think most listeners, thought he meant that by incorporating open standards into StorWize, WebSphere, and other IBM middleware, IBM was encouraging third parties to build ...
IBM, Google Teaming to Reshape IT Industry
The following is an interview with Arvind Krishna, Ph.D., GM, development & manufacturing, IBM Systems & Technology Group on last Monday’s announcement by IBM of the OpenPOWER Consortium, which initially includes high-end GPU manufacturer Nvidia, high-performance IO builder Mellanox Technologies, Taiwanese white-ox server manufacturer Tyan, and Google. In the interview Mr. Krishna all but says ...
IBM/Google Alliance Forebodes Major Industry Shift #OpenPower
IBM today announced its second major alliance in two weeks, this time with Google and three high-performance computing (HPC) vendors, to create the OpenPOWER Consortium, the first time IBM has offered to license its Power RISC processor hardware and firmware to third-party server manufacturers. The first announcement, on July 24th, was the alliance with Pivotal, ...
Progress Announces IAAS-Agnostic Progress Pacific PaaS Built on Rollbase
Progress Software Corporation today announced new data connectivity and application capabilities for its Progress Pacific Platform-as-a-Service (aPaaS) application. The new Progress DataDirect Cloud data connectivity service enables applications to integrate data from popular SaaS, relational database, Big Data, social, as well as internal data in applications such as custom CRM solutions that can be ...