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Wikibon’s Scott Lowe Enthusiastic Over HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000
The HP 3PAR StoreServ 7000 announced at HP Discover in early December 2012 is a big step or HP in several ways, writes Consultant, former CIO, and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in his latest Professional Alert: First, he writes, this is the start of a major technological shift at HP from EVA to 3PAR storage. ...
Dell Strategy Gets Mixed Review from Wikibon CTO David Floyer
Wikibon CTO David Floyer takes a detailed look at Dell’s present position and strategy going forward as presented at Dell World 2012 in his latest analysis on Wikibon. The result is definitely mixed. Dell scores high (8 out of 10) only in end-to-end security according to Floyer. It scores in the middle in low-cost mobile ...
Dell Faces Tremendous Opportunity says Michael Dell in #TheCube
The IT world is changing, and Dell, because it does not have a huge legacy of hardware products to defend, is in a near-ideal position to capitalize, says Dell Computing founder and CEO Michael Dell. With no huge legacy of old technology to devend, it is in a perfect position to help customers more to ...
Software-Led Infrastructure Bringing Revolutionary Change to IT
A revolution is brewing in IT, and its name is software-led infrastructure (SLI), writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in a seminal report that presents his vision of a unified, automated, dynamic future. As all aspects of the infrastructure – servers, networks, and storage – are virtualized and new disruptive technologies like server-based persistent solid-state storage are ...
Converged Infrastructure Moving to a New “Adolescent” Generation
Converged infrastructure is moving “from infant to adolescent” writes Wikibon CEO David Vellante in his latest alert, which examines the overall trends in the converged hardware segment. Kicked off by Oarcle’s 2008 “Database Machine” announcement, the converged infrastructure marketplace now includes multiple entries from every major player from IBM to EMC, plus some startups such as ...
Pica8 Out of Stealth, Bringing SDN to Commodity hardware with Open Full Stack System
Software-defined Networking (SDN), a.k.a. virtual networks, has become the frontier of data center virtualization in the cloud and internal enterprise data centers since the bidding war over Nicira and its subsequent purchase by VMware. But, says Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Stu Miniman, SDN is still an immature technology, and the physical network switches themselves have not ...
One Storage Product Across the Architecture is HP Vision
HP’s new storage announcements are “all about polymorphic simplicity, available in many shapes and sizes to solve customer problems,” says Craig Nunes, VP of Storage at HP. “We have customers who deal with 10, 15, even 20 architectures just to get the storage done for their business,” he told Wikibon CEO David Vellante and SiliconAngle ...
Beyond the Controversy, Autonomy At Center of HP Information Strategy
“Nothing aggravates me more than seeing companies throw away data,” says Andrew Joiner, General Manager of Emerging Technologies and Marketing for Autonomy. “Smart companies are monitizing their data through analysis.” So why are companies throwing away Pbytes of data that could provide vital insights into their businesses? The main reason, Joiner told SiliconAngle CEO John ...
Today’s Markets Are Driven by SLAs, Not Just Hot Products or Services
In the last year HP’s Enterprise Group has gone trough a major change of approach in response to the changing market, says Scott Weller, VP and General Manager of HP Technical Services Support. It is no longer enough to bring out a hot product or Cloud service, he told Wikibon CEO David Vellante and SiliconAngle ...
Integration is the Challenge in Big Data Implementation
“We see customers stopping Hadoop deployment after a pilot because they don’t understand the roles that Hadoop, Autonomy, structured and unstructured data all will play,” says Tom Norton, director of the Technology Consulting Portfolio at HP Technology Services. This puts their companies at a huge competitive advantage, regardless of their vertical markets. “Businesses making decisions ...