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DockerCon 2016 showed a company in transition, says Wikibon
The recent DockerCon 2016, the third annual U.S. conference, showed off Docker Inc. as a company in transition from being the leader of a popular open source project to a vendor focused on financial goals and longer-term operations, writes Wikibon Lead Cloud Analyst Brian Gracely. Docker continues to expand its project portfolio both with packaged ...
Enterprises increasingly joining open source ecosystem – Wikibon
A new wave of open source participation is growing among large traditional enterprises not normally considered technology developers, writes Wikibon Lead Cloud Analyst Brian Gracely. Companies like Capital One Financial Corp., Nike Inc., Deere & Co. and General Electric Co. are joining open source consortia both as users of and contributors to major initiatives. They ...
Wikibon’s Burris outlines 7 reasons that IoT action will be at the edge
A debate has developed inside IT over whether Internet-of-Things (IoT) processing should take place mostly in central data centers, mostly in the cloud or at the edge where the data is generated. At the recent HPE Discover 2016 conference, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.’s Dr. Tom Bradicich and National Instruments Corp.’s Eric Starkloff appeared on theCUBE to ...
As flash replaces disk, network becomes choke point – Wikibon
For decades the choke point for data center performance has been spinning disk storage. Now, as disk is replaced by order-of-magnitude faster flash, the data center network is becoming the new gating technology restricting performance, writes Wikibon CTO/Cofounder David Floyer. And as storage moves closer to compute in the new ServerSAN configuration that takes maximum ...
Public cloud vendors fueling Red Hat’s growth – Wikibon
An evolution is in progress in the cloud as all the leading public platforms embrace open source software, both as-a-service and as contributions to new Apache projects, writes Wikibon Lead Cloud Analyst Brian Gracely. At its recent Red Hat Summit 2016, Red Hat Inc., highlighted partnerships with several of the leaders in public cloud. This ...
Wikibon identifies ‘galaxies’ forming from big data ‘big bang’
As the exploding big data market enters its second decade, vendors are forming identifiable “galaxies,” providing structure to what has been a chaotic universe, writes Wikibon Big Data and Analytics Analyst George Gilbert. In his latest Professional Alert, available to Wikibon Premium subscribers, he identifies three major groupings of vendors around similar strategies: IBM, Palantir ...
Adoption complexity is holding back big data growth, says Wikibon
Ten years into the Hadoop-driven big data “revolution,” big data tools and platforms are widely available. But, writes Wikibon Big Data and Analytics Analyst George Gilbert, “the path from procurement to business value remains complex and labor intensive.” Gilbert blames this on the community’s intensive focus on tools rather than applications. This is a typical ...
Wikibon says It’s too early for Big Data performance benchmarks
Several Wikibon clients have asked about performance benchmarks for Big Data systems. The problem, writes Wikibon Big Data and Analytics Analyst George Gilbert, is that the technology is too immature. Meaningful benchmarks are based on standard workloads, but “common Big Data workload remains an alien concept” in Big Data, the analyst writes. Yahoo! Inc., for instance, ...
Public cloud to capture one-quarter of Big Data market, says Wikibon
The market for Big Data in the public cloud will grow from last year’s $1.1 billion (5 percent of all Big Data revenue) to $21.8 billion (24 percent of all Big Data revenue) by 2026 according to the latest Wikibon analysis. Big Data contributed 1.4 percent of total public cloud revenue in 2015. That will ...
HPE see future in solutions, hybrid cloud and data at the edge | #HPEDiscover
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) used HPE Discover Las Vegas last week to unveil a new strategy defined by solution selling, hybrid cloud and the Internet of things (IoT). The strategy was succinctly defined an interview on theCUBE with Antonio Neri, executive vice president and general manager of HPE’s Enterprise Group (see embedded video below). Neri laid ...