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DataXu Active Analytics is Big Data in Real Time on Hadoop for Marketing
Boston-based DataXu is doing something that many people consider impossible – near-real time analytics on Hadoop HBase, which is supposed to be a batch system. And this is no lab experiment. It is gathering all the data on what is happening with hundreds of companies on the Internet in real time to support analysis of ...
HP 3PAR P1000 Validates Flash Storage for HP Users: the All-Flash Future
HP’s 3PAR P1000 system announcement with its all-flash option is an important validation of flash storage in the marketplace, writes Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in his latest Professional Alert. While the P1000 also supports traditional spinning disk drives through 8 GB Fiber Channel and 10 GB iSCSI connections, it is the first system from a ...
CyberWars 3: A New Business Reality @CyberWars
Ed note: This is the third in a series on Cyber Wars, covering what makes this threat different, and why businesses need to be concerned. This piece focuses on how businesses need to change their security strategies in the face of this new, highly targeted, sophisticated, and persistent threat. Whether they know it or not, ...
CyberWars 2: Welcome to the Wild, Wild West @CyberWars
Ed. note: This is the second in a series looking at the cyber wars that are raging worldwide. In the first piece in the series, “Caught in the Crossfire”, we looked at how a new, serious threat has appeared that has the resources to circumvent traditional firewalls and other perimeter defenses and take up permanent ...
TRILL and Brocade Prove Central to 300% Annual Growth for IaaS Vendor
Denver-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider PeakColo may not have the name recognition of Amazon and Google in the marketplace, but with 300% annual growth, it has the market mojo to challenge these market leaders. PeakColo’s spectacular growth is the direct product of its localized market strategy combined with its close relationships with its key vendors – ...
CyberWars: Caught in the Crossfire @CyberWars
Ed. note: This is the first in a three-part series on CyberWars that will explore what is happening, why businesses should be concerned, and what they should do. In the last five years the first shots in a new kind of conflict, dubbed CyberWars by the press but more accurately “advanced persistent threats” by data ...
Hadapt Brings SQL to Hadoop
Hadapt, a 30-employee startup that grew out of Yale University’s computer lab with $9.5M from Bessimer Venture Partners and NorWest Venture Partners, has figured out a way to use SQL on Hadoop databases. This neat technical trick means that business users, who understand the business questions they want to ask the data, can access Big ...
Taking the “Personal Problems” Out of Business Decisions
Huge market and technical forces are driving radical change in the organization of internal IT shops. The advent of cloud services and converged infrastructure from the major enterprise IT hardware providers (HP, IBM, EMC/Cisco Systems) both militate for the breakdown of the traditional server, storage, network, and application silos in IT. The real impact of ...
Gelsinger Ushers in IO-Centric Era for VMware, New Strategies
Pat Gelsinger is the new CEO of EMC’s VMware subsidiary, and in his latest Professional Alert, Wikibon CTO and Co-Founder David Floyer presents a vision of how Gelsinger can create an IO-Centric, full-systems architecture with VMware as the operating system that integrates Flash with EMC storage architectures. This, Floyer writes in “Potential VMware Strategy to ...
Big Data is the Future, but the Smart Investment is in Users, not Vendors
“It’s a tremendously exciting time,” says Peter Goldmacher, Managing Director & Senior Research Analyst at Cowen Group and, says Wikibon.org co-founder and Chief Analyst David Vellante, the number 1 Big Data analyst on Wall Street. “For a guy like me who cut his teeth at Oracle back in the ’90s, when you go from a ...