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Impala Expands Real-Time Query in Hadoop, Empowers SQL BI, Visualization Tools
Impala changes the equation for Hadoop, giving users answers to their queries in seconds rather than hours, says Cloudera CEO Mike Olson in the Cube at the Strata/HadoopWorld 2012 conference. His chief scientist, Jeff Hammer, agrees, saying that Impala is the first tool to change how he uses Hadoop. “I use it every day.” Impala, ...
Wikibon’s Floyer Finds Long-Term Strategic Sense in HP Flash Partnership Shift
HP’s move to freeze its current relationship with flash storage provider Violin where it is, in favor of a strategic direction toward software-led storage based on 3PAR, may seem a step back from a focus on flash on HP servers. However, writes David Floyer in his latest Wikibon Professional Alert, the long-term strategy behind it ...
IBM’s PureSystems Combines Advantages of Single SKU Integrated Systems with Flexibility of Full Customization
Most of the new data-center-in-a-box unified systems fielded in the last two years fit somewhere along a continuum between fully pre-defined and unchangeable but highly integrated systems and highly configurable but less well integrated choices on the other end. IBM PureSystems, says Wikibon Co-Founder and Principal Analyst David Vellante, breaks that mode by offering both. ...
Data, Like Daisies, Has a Lifespan and Should be Chucked When it Wilts, Says Consultant Randy Kahn
Like everything else, information has a lifespan, and just like a beautiful bouquet of daisies, when it gets old and wilts, when it has no further business value and is past any compliance retention dates, it should be thrown out, says Randolph (Randy) Kahn, esq., lawyer, principle of Kahn Consulting, author and founder last year ...
Records Management’s Failure Costs Companies Millions
In the excitement about Big Data, what is being missed is that large enterprises are actually drowning in Petabytes of historical data, both structured and unstructured, generated by internal systems from ERP to e-mail, says consultant, lawyer and records management expert Randolph Kahn. And despite the commonly held myth that “storage is cheap”, this data ...
CIOs Face Big Data Inflection Point
CIOs are facing a major inflection point in the adoption of Big Data, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly and Chief Analyst and Co-Founder David Vellante in their latest Wikibon Professional Alert. Legacy data warehouses and business intelligence (BI) systems have failed to deliver the promised 360 degree views of customers, predictive analytics, and ...
Users Rate Data Growth Tops in Sleepless Night Category
What IT issues give CIOs the most sleepless nights? Vendors seem to think that the Cloud, mobile, and social computing are the top concerns of IT. But a Wikibon/ServicesAngle survey of 216 IT professionals found that “data growth” and “excessive data growth” actually lead the list of specific issues, with related issues such as security, ...
New Switches, Servers Driving Evolution to 10 Gb E
While the excitement, and most of the press, in data center and in particular networking technology is focused on virtualization and the emerging Software-Led Infrastructure, hardware still matters, writes Wikibon Networking Analyst Stuart Miniman in “The Value of Adapters in a Software-Led World”. Specifically, he writes, the new Intel Xeon Processor E5-2600 generation of servers ...
NetApp, Flexpod, VMware Make Business Possible for Fast Growing Travel Insurer
In mid-September travel insurer and emergency assistance provider Seven Corners shut down its last non-virtualized server and reached 100% virtualization from data center to desktop. It had to do that, says company CIO George Reed at the NetApp Customer Day in AT&T Park during VMworld 2012. It was the only way to support the company’s explosive ...
Scott Lowe Defines Backup/Recovery Best Practices for Very large Oracle Databases in Face of Increasing Virtualization
The march of virtualization out of test/dev environments and through peripheral systems to increasingly encompass tier 1, business-critical environments, including huge Oracle databases, is changing the face of backup and recovery writes Wikibon Analyst, independent consultant and former CIO Scott Lowe in his latest Wikibon Professional Alert. Virtualization has two major impacts which combine to ...