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Industrial Internet Value Potential Huge but Slow to Develop
The Industrial Internet has the potential to be a $514 billion annual market with a net value of $1.7 trillion by 2020 (see chart at right). However, that value will be derived from different sources than that of the consumer Internet, and the market will be slow developing, write Wikibon CTO David Floyer and Lead ...
Dell VRTX — A Nice Package for SMBs, Remote Offices
Dell has introduced a nice converged system for the SMB and remote office marketplaces in the VRTX, writes Wikibon Analyst, Founder, and Managing Consultant of the 1610 Group, and former CIO Scott Lowe in his latest Wikibon Alert. The VRTX is unusual in its size — it is limited to four servers and 48 TB ...
Microsoft Server 2012 R2 a Step Toward Data Center Dominance?
Microsoft is making no secret of its ambition to “own the data center of today and the cloud of tomorrow,” writes Wikibon Analyst, Founder and Managing Consultant of the 1610 Group, and former CIO Scott Lowe in his latest Wikibon Professional Alert, “CIOs: Windows Server 2012 R2 requires new thinking and provides new opportunities“. The ...
The Watson Healthcare Revolution Begins #IBM Edge 2013
Ed. Note: The following is a summary of a presentation by Dr. Samuel Nussbaum on progress in the Watson in Healthcare program announced in February. An in-depth article based on this presentation and a SiliconAngle interview with Dr. Nussbaum will be published next week. After two years of development that resembles human education as much ...
Flash, Software-Led Storage Ready for Mainstream Says IBM’s Ambuj Goyal #IBM Edge 2013
Ed. Note: The following is a synopsis of some of the points in Ambuj Goyal’s presentations at IBM Edge this week in Las Vegas. A full story, based on his presentation in the opening General session, his interview on TheCube, and an exclusive interview with SiliconAngle, will be published next week. Flash and software-led storage ...
HP Unveils Unified Cloud OS : Comprehensive Private/Hybrid Cloud on Moonshot
HP today has announced a comprehensive private/hybrid cloud system running on HP Moonshot hyperscale servers and unified by the newly announced HP CloudOS. The HP Public Cloud runs on CloudOS, meaning that this OpenStack-based operating platform is enterprise ready and that hybrid clouds built on HP’s technology can be tightly integrated with the HP Cloud ...
As SDN Disrupts Networking, Users Should Reevaluate their Vendors
SDN is the biggest disruption in the data networking market in 15 years, writes Wikibon Analyst Stuart Miniman in his latest Wikibon Professional Alert. It is also the largest opportunity for the competition to crack Cisco’s stranglehold on the market. However, he says, Cisco is not sitting still and has its own new technologies on ...
HP’s HAVEn Big Data Platform but Faces Significant Challenges
At HP Discover 2013 this week in Las Vegas, HP has announced an interesting Big Data platform called HAVEn for Hadoop, Autonomy, Vertica, Enterprise Security, and the “number” of Big Data applications that can be built on it. Made up mostly of existing products, it promises to provide a unified framework, improving the ability of ...
HP Grabs New Generation of Storage with Discover Announcements
The storage marketplace is hot with revolutionary technologies that promise to totally disrupt the marketplace. Flash storage startups like Violin and Fusion-io are challenging the established big system vendors, while simultaneously software-led storage is sweeping storage into the virtualized infrastructure future. Since the start of the new century, HP has been making dramatic moves to ...
SDN, NFV, Network Virtualization All Different
SDN, NFT, and network virtualization are all new terms that are sometimes used interchangeably, but they each have different meanings, writes Wikibon Networking Analyst Stuart Miniman in his latest Wikibon Professional Alert. While VMware’s purchase of Nicira a year ago put a spotlight on Software Defined Networking (SDN) in particular, and by analogy Network Functions Virtualization ...