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From Windows 8 to Servers: Brace Yourself for a Refresh of Key Microsoft Technologies
Over the next 18 months, Microsoft will refresh nearly all its core technologies, warns consultant and Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in “A CIO view on Microsoft 2012-2013”. This former CIO warns that enterprise IT organizations need to plan a strategy to deal with the list of updates, and to help he provides a summary of ...
Budget Squeeze and Big Data Dreams: CIOs Struggle with Services Shift
CIOs are struggling with the impact of cloud services according to the results of the inaugural Wikibon/ServicesAngle IT Transformation survey, but the largest problem is not the obvious one. Over the past year, writes Wikibon Chief Analyst and Co-FOunder David Vellante in his report “Wikibon IT Transformation Survey: 2012 is The Year of the Cloud”, ...
NAND Flash Storage: Speeds and Feeds, a Comparative Report
Wikibon analyst, founder and managing consultant at The 1610 Group, and former CIO Scott Lowe has published the first part of a major study of the enterprise-class flash storage market that includes a detailed comparison of the specific products available from several leading flash vendors. While admittedly incomplete, it provides a great deal of valuable ...
Research Finds Intelligent Racks “No Brainer”, HP Leads the Way
A just-released Wikibon study finds that intelligent rack technology, and specifically the version supplied by Hewlett-Packard, provides compelling business value to the point that all medium-to-large enterprises should convert to the technology. In a recent alert titled “The Business Case for Intelligent Racks”, Wikibon CTO David Floyer says that several leading vendors have versions of ...
VMware Reveals Competing Multi-Node Big Data Infrastructure Systems
Google and VMware take very different approaches to solving the problem of rapidly provisioning large numbers of virtual nodes for production Big Data systems, says Wikibon CTO and leading Big Data Analyst David Floyer in his latest Wikibon Alert, “Google and VMware Provide Virtualization of Hadoop and Big Data”. Google’s Compute Engine, announced at the ...
HyTrust Fills Major Security Gap in Virtualized Data Centers
As data center virtualization moves beyond test and peripheral systems into mainstream production environments, enterprises face a major security gap. Maintaining and strengthening traditional security in the underlying physical environment remains important, but the virtualization layer itself also needs to be secured. The security built into commercial hypervisors such as VMware is rudimentary at best ...
No Red Hat for Hadoop Wikibon. Experts Agree
Will a Red Hat for Hadoop, that is a single commercial entity that represents the Hadoop ecosystem and sets direction for it, emerge? That is a question that Wikibon Chief Analyst and Co-Founder David Vellante raised during a discussion with Big Data analyst and Wikibon Chief Contributor Jeff Kelly in the SilionAngle Cube during a recent ...
Hopper Brings Big-Data-as-a-Service to Online Travel Planning
Fred Lalonde likes to get right to the point when talking about the impetus behind his Big Data start-up. “The problem we’re trying to solve is it actually sucks to plan a trip,” says Lalonde, co-founder of Hopper, a Boston-based start-up that is developing a new approach to the online travel based on Big Data ...
Big Data Market Will Reach $50 Billion by 2017
The big data market will reach $5 billion this year and grow at 50% to 70% CAGR for the next five years says Lucid Imagination CEO Paul Dosher. That will take it over $50 billion. In an interview in the Cube from the recent Hadoop Summit 2012, he said that the market split would be ...
How One Bank Finds Efficiency with Dell Compellent
Dan Marbes, Discipline Lead – Systems Engineering for Associated Bank, has been going to the Dell Storage Forum “since it was the Compellent C-Drive conference in Minneapolis. I’ve been to them all.” In the process, he said in an interview in the SiliconAngle Cube from the Dell Storage Forum 2012 in Boston, he has seen ...