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Polymorphic Simplicity Vision Drives HP Storage Development
A vision of polymorphic simplicity drives HP storage development, David Scott, Senior VP and General Manager of HP Storage said in a December 4, 2012 interview in the Cube from HP Discover 2012 in Frankfurt, Germany. That vision specifically is of “an architecture that can adapt and provide common data services across block, file, and ...
Three Major Strategies Define HP’s and IT’s Future Says Donatelli
HP’s Enterprise Group is focusing all its R&D on three major strategies that it believes will define IT in the future, says HP Executive VP and General Manager of the Enterprise Group Dave Donatelli. Those are: Converged Infrastructure, Cloud in all its forms – public and private, and, The Software-Defined Data Center. “I believe HP ...
Early Adopter CIO Talks About Win 8
Wikibon Analyst and former CIO Scott Lowe interviewed the IT director if an SMB who just migrated 80% of his company’s end-user computers from Windows 7 Enterprise to Windows 8. He provides a Q&A of the interview on Wikibon. The IT staff manually upgraded the approximately 85 computers in part because of the special needs ...
Windows Server 2012 A Disruptive Force for Good
Windows Server 2012 will bring basic storage virtualization to the masses, writes Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in his latest Wikibon Professional Alert, and while it doesn’t have the features of technology leader Nexenta, it will benefit users and speed up the virtualization of large numbers of data centers. Overall, he says, Windows Server 2012 is impressive in ...
Electronic Ad Broker Uses NoSQL Database Engine for Instant Ad Placement
In the last five years the advertising sales market has changed radically, Dag Liodden, co-founder and CTO at Tapad, said in a Wikibon Peer Incite meeting Tuesday, November 27. Just five years ago the online ad sales market was basically static, with ads developed for specific sites based on general profiles of the user population ...
Software-Led Infrastructure Brings Revolution in IT Infrastructure
With the evolving software-led infrastructure (SLI), IT is on the verge of a revolution as great as that driven by the Internet in the last two decades, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in his latest Alert, “Defining Software-led Infrastructure”. Floyer, who has worked in the leading edge areas, including server and network virtualization and sold-state ...
Flash Beats DRAM as Solid-State Storage Solution Says New Wikibon Report
Data-in-flash beats Data-in-DRAM by up to 17X writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in his latest report on leading-edge storage technology, “Data in DRAM is a Flash in the Pan”. This, he says, means that medium-to-large organizations and especially Cloud service providers should avoid DRAM-based solid-state solutions such as Cassandra and SAP’s HANA. Instead they should ...
Idera May Trigger Badly Needed Backup Market Shakeup
The backup market badly needs a shakeup in the wake of the virtualization revolution, and Idera Software may be the vendor to drive it, writes Wikibon Analyst John T. McArthur in his latest Professional Alert, “The Backup Market May be Ready for Disruption”. The problem with the backup market is that pricing and products that ...
As Big Switch Networks Joins SDN Market CIOs Should Plan Infrastructure for Next Generation Technology
While Nicira has received the majority of the media attention lately thanks to its acquisition by VMware just before VMworld earlier this autumn, it is not the only software-defined network (SDN) vendor in the market. The latest to ship a product, says Wikibon Network Guru Stuart Miniman in his latest Professional Alert, “Big Switch Networks ...
Review: Nook HD+ Tablet — Android Catches Up with Apple at Half the Price
Overall Android tablets have been disappointing. They are smaller than the iPad with inferior displays and many fewer applications. The only area where they have matched Apple’s thoroughbred has been price — leading contenders like the Samsungs are expensive, while inexpensive tablets from Amazon and Barnes & Noble (BN) have been little more than glorified ...