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Electric Utilities Feeling Crunch of Big Data Early
While most industries will feel the impact of Big Data analytics in the next few years, the electric utilities are already in the throws of the Big Data revolution, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly in his latest Professional Alert, “Big Data in the Utilities Industry”. The key technology in this case is the ...
Hyper-Scale Databases Require New Approaches to Infrastructure, Data Protection, say Wikibon Analysts
An increasing number of companies are watching their central databases grow through the multi-petabytes towards the exabyte category writes Wikibon Analyst John McArthur in “Hyperscale Storage: Not if, When.” The Wikibon alert headlines the latest Peer Incite newsletter triggered by the January 22 Wikibon Peer Incite meeting on hyperscaling with Cleversafe VP Russ Kennedy. Databases ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 30, 2013
Nimble Storage Announces 1,000th Customer Flash-optimized hybrid storage system entrepreneur Nimble Storage has announced its 1,000th customer win in its less than two-and-a-half year history. The customer, Citipointe Christian College Brisbane, Australia, highlights Nimble’s successful entry into the global marketplace. Nimble’s arrays combine the performance of flash with the economics of disk and are often ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 29, 2013
EMC Reports Record Q4 Revenue, Profit EMC Corp. has reported 8 percent year-over-year revenue growth for Q4 and 9 percent revenue growth for the full year as well as record Q4 and full year network income and EPS, and a record full-year operating cash flow of $6.3 billion and free cash flow of $5 billion. ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 28, 2013
HP Helps 24 Care Makers Eliminate Harmful Substances HP will host the International Material Data System (IMDS) for the next five years, helping 34 of the world’s leading car manufacturers eliminate harmful substances from the automotive supply chain. IMDS is a shared service that allows more than 100,000 companies in the vehicle supply chain meet ...
Intel Era May be Ending Says Wikibon CTO
Shipments of ARM processor chips are likely to grow from 68% of all processor shipments in 2012 to 85% in 2016, and 96% in 2022, portending a major sea change in core IT technology and the end of the Intel era at least in end-user devices, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in his latest Wikibon ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 25, 2013
RSA Positioned as Leader in Gartner Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention Magic Quadrant EMC security division RSA is among the leaders in Gartner’s “Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention” this year for the fifth consecutive year. Garner defines these technologies as “those that can, as a core function, perform content inspection of data at rest ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 24, 2013
Spanish Energy Company Chooses HP to Enhance Customer Service Madrileña Red de Gas, one of Spain’s largest energy companies, has signed a four-year agreement with HP to manage its SAP environment, allowing it to improve customer service while enhancing efficiency. Madrileña Red de Gas maintains more than 830,000 supply points that distributes gas to 41 ...
ServicesAngle News Briefs for January 23, 2013
RSA Introduces Integrated Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery & Crisis Management System EMC Division RSA has introduced RSA Archer Business Continuity Management and Operations, a tightly integrated business continuity, disaster recovery, and crisis management suite. Aligned with BS25999, NIMS, and ISO 22301, it offers a standards-based approach to business continuity planning. It integrates with other GRC ...
Multi-Petabyte Databases Demand Hyperscale Distributed Technologies
Multi-petabyte and exabyte sized databases, until now largely the province of large government agencies and cloud/social media service providers like Facebook and Shutterfly, are quickly coming to large and even medium-sized companies, Russ Kennedy, VP of Product Strategy at Cleversafe, told the Wikibon Peer Incite community on January 22. Increasing numbers of companies are seeing ...