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Wikibon Paper Provides Conceptual Outline for Outsourcing Requirements Documents
As increasing numbers of businesses turn to the Cloud as well as traditional service providers to provide significant parts of their IT requirements, a strong requirements document is vital for a successful experience writes Wikibon community member Anca Vescan in a new paper on the Wikibon site. The requirements document has three critical roles: First, it ...
Scott Lowe Explains Basics of SDN for CIOs on Wikibon
Software defined networks, (SDN) also known as network virtualization, is a bleeding edge technology that jumped into prominence in the industry with VMware’s purchase of SDN pioneer Nicira just before VMworld 2012 in September. And while the technology may not be quite ready for real time yet, CIOs are going to be hearing more about ...
NetApp Pursuing Hybrid Flash/Disk Storage Strategy for Maximum Customer Value
With its recent announcement of Flash Accel, NetApp has put a major piece in its flash/disk hybrid storage strategy in place, says NetApp VP of Data Lifecycle Solutions Tim Russell. While this puts flash cache on the server, the key to NetApp’s strategy is in software and specifically storage management on the storage array, he ...
Walz Group Switches to Flexpod to Gain Agility, Meet Rigid Compliance Requirements
A provider of critical document management fulfillment and regulatory compliance services to the legal and financial industry, including mortgage lenders, the Walz Group works under stringent compliance requirements including Dodd-Frank provisions for forclosures, and TARP and other regulations governing mortgage and foreclosure information, the larger financial industry, and large legal firms. These apply both to ...
Isha Suri Posts Six Rules for Successful Big Data Marketing Strategy
Wikibon and SiliconAngle contributor Isha Suri has posted six rules rules for a successful marketing strategy in the era of Big Data on Wikibon. The new data gathering and analysis technologies give marketers a powerful new toolset for developing strong, personalized, online marketing campaigns. But to do that they need to understand the basics of ...
QLogic Focuses on Flash and Cloud Storage Integration Says Rob Davis
“I’m in the futures business, and we’re focused on cloud and flash,” QLogic CTO Rob Davis told SiliconAngle Founder John Furrier and Wikibon Co-Founder David Vellante in the Cube in the QLogic booth at Oracle OpenWorld on October 3, 2012. Qlogic’s flash product, of course, is Mt. Rainier, detailed in a Professional Alert posted recently by ...
Potential Big Data Users Moving from Technology to Business Discussions Says EMC CTO
“The customers I talk to don’t care about Hadoop,” EMC CTO Bill Schmarzo, whom SiliconAngle Founder John Furrier dubbed “the dean of Big Data”, said in an October 2, 2012 interview webcast from the Cube in the QLogic booth at Oracle OpenWorld. “Hadoop is just part of the technology stack that helps them get value out ...
QLogic Frees SSDs from Server Slavery with Mt. Rainier
Qlogic’s Mt. Rainier connects multiple server-based SSDs into what amounts to a virtual SAN, freeing them from single-application dominance to provide very high-speed, aggregated storage capacity across the data center, says Ryan Klein, senior director at the Fibre Channel and Ethernet switch, adapter, and chip provider. He and Cameron Brett, QLogic’s director of solutions marketing, ...
Opera Makes Pact to Run Big Data Analytics on Oracle
At Oracle OpenWorld 2012, October 1, Opera Solutions announced a deal to allow its unique Big Data analytics to run on Oracle. Similar to its previously announced deal with SAP, this basically means that Oracle users who subscribe to the Opera Big Data analytics service will be able to integrate that with their Exalytics installations ...
Startup SimpliVity Worth a Close Look says Wikibon’s John McArthur
Founded in late 2009, SimpliVity is a new data center-in-a-box maker just out of stealth mode, who’s OmniCube is worth shortlisting when looking for next-generation, fully integrated hardware systems, says John McArthur in his latest Wikibon Professional Alert. OmniCube is designed for simple installation and operation in a virtualized environment. It includes hybrid solid state/spinning ...