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Treasure Data Offers Big Data Analysis for the Rest of Us
SMBs, it is time to start thinking Big Data. Hadoop-based analysis of unstructured data, which is the Next Big Thing for large enterprises, has now been brought within reach of SMBs and large company LOBs and small divisions by the Treasure Data Big Data Warehouse service. For those with the imagination to make good use ...
Channel Partners can Leverage PaaS to Gain Competitive Advantage
Channel partners can and should leverage the potential speed and cost advantages of platforms-as-a-service to gain cost and implementation speed advantages in the marketplace writes independent analyst and Wikibon community member Derek Singleton in his latest Wikibon Professional Alert. Singleton, who provides advice on software selection on his Software Advice Web site, writes that PaaS ...
Exclusive Interview: Nicera’s Martin Casado Defends Nicera’s Open Source Credentials
Ed. note: This is the third of three articles from an exclusive interview that Super-Geek and network virtualization pioneer Martin Casado, co-founder and CTO of Nicera, gave on SiliconAngle.tv from the Cube at WMworld 2012. The first covered his vision for full data center virtualization and how that will simplify and unify IT infrastructure. The ...
Microsoft Making Virtualization Easier, Cheaper for SMBs
Despite the obvious advantages, many SMBs are hesitant to virtualize their servers because of the complexity that introduces into the environment. They just do not have the resources to add the skill sets required to manage virtual environments to their workforce. That problem may be going away, writes Wikibon Analyst, consultant and former CIO Scott ...
Ericsson Sees Brocade as Collaborator in Creating Network of the Future
“The amount of data hitting mobile and fixed networks is going to grow at a dramatic pace over the next five years,” Sony Ericsson VP of Advanced Technology Solutions Glenn Laxdal said in an interview in the SiliconAngle Cube from the Brocade Analyst Day. “We predicted in recent analysis that data will increase 15 times ...
CIOs Should Track Two New Wireless Standards
Two new wireless standards are poised to appear in the marketplace, says Wikibon Analyst, consultant, and former CIO Scott Lowe in his latest Professional Alert. While neither of these is focused primarily on the enterprise or SMB markets, and one at least may present significant implementation challenges, CIOs should keep an eye on both and ...
Desktop Virtualization Benefits Large School System
As part of its recent survey and accompanying study of VMware and other Hypervisor adoption, Wikibon conducted in-depth interviews with seven users provided by three of the vendors reviewed in the study. Since publication of the results of the main survey, Wikibon.org CTO David Floyer has been publishing anonymized transcriptions of the important segments of ...
The Next Big Thing Won’t Save Companies Money Warns Wikibon’s Scott Lowe
The “Next Big Thing” is not necessarily a money-saver for IT, and the next few on the horizon are in that category, warns Wikibon Analyst, consultant, and former CIO Scott Lowe. In a recent Wikibon Professional Alert, Lowe looks at the probable financial impact of virtual desktops, further data center virtualization, bring-your-own-device (BYOD), and cloud ...
Brocade Makes Bet on Management Simplicity, Ethernet Fabric Technology to Open Markets
Brocade is making a major bet on software-defined networking enablement, TRILL, and high-speed Ethernet to open the door to next-generation markets for virtualized, cloud systems, CEO Mike Klayko said in a webcast from the Cube at the Brocade Analyst Day over SiliconAngle.tv. With its new VDX 8770 switch, it has fixed the main problem users ...
Exclusive Interview: Network Virtualization Good News Rather than a Threat for IT Professionals says Nicira’s Martin Casado
Ed. note: This is the second of three articles on an exclusive interview with Nicira Cofounder and CTO Martin Casado in the Cube at VMworld 2012. The first piece focused on Casado’s overall vision of the fully virtualized data center of the future. The third will focus on open source versus open standards and support ...