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QLogic Envisions a Virtual SAN for Server-Based Flash with Mt. Rainier Project
QLogic, the leader in fibre channel host bust adapters and a provider of Ethernet adapters, envisions creating a virtual SAN to make server-based SSDs into a shared cache available across the data center in its Mt. Rainier Project, says Wikibon Analyst Stuart Miniman in his latest Wikibon Professional Alert. This simple but powerful idea is ...
Exclusive Interview: Nicira Martin Casado Presents Vision for Changing IT
Ed note: At the end of VMworld 2012 SiliconAngle CEO John Furrier and Wikibon Networking Analyst Stuart Miniman had an exclusive interview with Nicira Co-Founder and CTO Martin Casado in the SiliconAngle Cube. A pioneer in developing the key technologies in virtual networking, Casado is a visionary who seldom sits for interviews. In this rare event, ...
Apache Drill to Provide SQL-Like Fast Answers to Specific Questions from Hadoop Databases
In what he terms “yet another example of the remarkable innovation occurring in the open source Big Data Community,” Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly writes that a small group of committers is developing an open source SQL-like query tool for Hadoop databases called “Apache Drill”. Designed after BigQuery, Google’s Big-Data-Analytics-as-a-Service technology that it made ...
Flash Market Hot, Users Confused, Scott Lowe Finds
The flash market is hot, writes Wikibon’s Scott Lowe in his latest report from VMworld 2012. Users, however, by and large do not understand the differences among the three major vendor classes (flash-on-server, hybrid flash/disk, and pure flash arrays) and see all the vendors as the same, judging from conversations he had on the floor. ...
SDN Not Revolutionary, Part of an Evolution Going back to 1980s and ATM says Cisco’s Delfino
Despite the hype, software-defined networking (SDN) is not really that new, says Dom Delfino, senior director at network giant Cisco Systems. In fact, the basic concepts go back to the 1980s or earlier and TDM (time-division networking), ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), and frame relay among other networking technologies, he told Wikibon Analyst Stuart Miniman in ...
Pervasive’s DataRush Unlocks High Utilization for Hadoop
For all its advantages in Big Data research, Hadoop has one major drawback, it struggles to achieve 20% server utilization, writes Jeff Kelly in his latest Wikibon Peer Incite, “Improving Hardware Efficiency Important to Overall Hadoop ROI”. This makes large, production Hadoop installations running on hundreds of nodes into a drain on IT CapEx. Earlier ...
Decoupling the Control Plane from Storage Key to Data Infrastructure
“The Software-Defined Data Center is partly about where value moves, mostly about where policy is controlled, but it’s also about decoupling control planes from infrastructure,” says EMC SVP Chad Sakac. “One thing that is not right in storage land is the control plane for storage is embedded in the storage target. So in storage language, ...
3PAR Driving HP into the Data Infrastructure Era, Says David Scott
3PAR has leveraged HP’s sales channel to grow 60%+ per quarter since its acquisition says HP SVP and General Manager of Storage and former 3PAR CEO David Scott on SiliconAngle.tv. And the reverse is also true – 3PAR is becoming a central growth driver for HP in storage for virtualized environments, complimenting its 42% market ...
Three VMworld Vendors Offer Simplicity for IT
Simplicity may be on the verge of appearing in at least some IT environments, writes Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in his second report from the floor of VMworld 2012, “Terminator: The Rise of the (Simple) Machines”. And while simple solutions are always suspect in the complex world if IT technology, in this case, the former ...
VMworld Announcements Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary
The VMworld Keynote announcements are evolutionary rather than revolutionary, but that’s okay says Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in his Professional Alert on the first-day announcements at VMworld 2012. The biggest news, he says, is the elimination of vRAM, which he characterized as definitely a good idea. Beyond that VMware’s engineers have not had time to ...