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As #HPEDiscover 2016 opens, the market asks ‘quo vadis?’
As Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) Discover 2016 opens tomorrow in the Venetian/Palazzo in Las Vegas, the big question hanging over it is: Quo Vadis HPE? Last month the company surprised the industry with the announcement that it would spin off its huge consulting division, the second time in a year it has split itself in ...
How the cloud and IBM Watson are helping breed a better guide dog
Big data is often touted as a tool for increasing quality and decreasing cost. Few people would think of it as a tool for breeding service animals. At Guiding Eyes for the Blind, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and leading non-profit breeder and trainer of service dogs, President and CEO Thomas Panek’s vision is to harness the ...
OpenStack Summit on #theCUBE: A window into the future
OpenStack Summit 2016 kicks off this morning on theCUBE for a three-day run that will provide a window into the state, progress, and future of one of the seminal technologies driving the digital business revolution. In those three days, Wikibon Analysts Stuart Miniman (@stu) and Brian Gracely (@bjgracely) will interview central figures both in the ...
Hadoop World: Big questions about Big Data’s future #HS16Dublin
Is the day of the pure Hadoop startups over? Are the big vendors, and in particular the cloud service providers, taking over Hadoop infrastructure? Will most Big Data production systems be built on infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platforms and use software-as-a-service (SaaS) analysis rather than running in company data centers? Those are the questions that SiliconAngle Media ...
Oracle Cloud Machine moves closer to true hybrid model – Wikibon analyst
Public cloud, with its unlimited resources, high flexibility, and OpEx pricing model, is attractive to enterprises. But so far a variety of issues, including low latency requirements that cannot tolerate public Internet speed variations, geographic compliance issues and the cost of migration and retraining IT techs have stymied adoption. In theory, the solution to these ...
Big data market enters high growth phase, intersects with public cloud | #BigDataSV
Last week’s BigData SV/Hadoop-Strata 2016 event presented a market in ferment, with high growth supporting many new startups and attracting big vendors like IBM, Oracle and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE). TheCUBE, which has covered big data since the days when SiliconANGLE shared office space with big data pioneer Cloudera, Inc., presented three days of live-streamed in-depth ...
EMC’s all flash VMAX an answer to extend hybrid VMAX, says Wikibon’s Floyer
EMC’s new VMAX all flash array (AFA) solves performance problems for IO constrained VMAX users. This, according to Wikibon CTO David Floyer in his latest Professional Alert. However, he writes, certain limitations of the VMAX AFA make it a tactical rather than a strategic solution today. The use of solid-state disk (SSD) without NVMe native support means that while ...
Oracle’s new VSM7 fits the bill for mainframe hybrid cloud backup, says Wikibon
Oracle’s VSM7 hybrid cloud solution for mainframe backup offers low-access storage with services and an interface designed specifically for the needs of mainframes running large transaction processing workloads. And for one-tenth of a cent per gigabyte, it’s an order of magnitude cheaper than onsite storage or Amazon’s S3 cloud service. The cloud has long promised low-cost ...
Wikibon offers prescription to make containers enterprise-ready
Containers have dramatically changed the ways in which application developers package and deploy software, initially in the cloud but soon in the enterprise as well. When combined with DevOps, microservices, and cloud-native applications, containers are revolutionizing the applications are designed, developed and managed over their lifetimes. Containers, however, only take the development process part way to ...
Systems of intelligence to self-tune based on business objectives says Wikibon
Early adapters are deploying systems of intelligence that will integrate data lakes, machine learning, systems of engagement and systems of record, and will self-tune themselves to business objectives writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst George Gilbert. Wikibon’s big data community is talking about deployment patterns that build on each other, including mastering data lakes, designing intelligent ...