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Network Virtualization: the Next Big Thing in Transforming IT Infrastructure
With servers and storage well into the process of virtualization, networks are next, Wikibon CTO David Floyer advises Cisco CEO John Chambers in his latest Alert, “Network Virtualization – Transition or Transformation?”. The increasing importance of the network in the infrastructure is measured in part by the huge jump in attendance at this year’s Cisco ...
Microsoft Announces Major Upgrades to Hyper-V at TechEd 2012
Microsoft announced major upgrades to Hyper-V to make it competitive with VMware at TechEd 2012, June 11-14 in Orlando, writes Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in his latest Alert, “Virtualization, Cloud and Mobility are in Abundance at TechEd 2012”. In the first of what he promises will be a series of alerts looking at Microsoft’s major ...
A Summary of the Virtualized Converged Market: Why We Need Application Expertise
For some reason May and June has become conference season in the IT industry. While not every major conference happens in these two months, a large number do, including EMC World, HP World, the new IBM Edge storage conference, the Dell Storage Forum, Microsoft TechEd, Cisco Live, the Hadoop Summit, and HP Discover. Several of ...
Open Source is a Game of Partnerships, Bigger than Competition
“Open Source is an interesting game,” says Hortonworks Co-founder and CTO Eric Baldeschweiler. “Employees who leave you are working feverishly to make your products better. Your competitors are working feverishly to make your products better. So we are looking for win-wins and trying to work with everybody in the community.” To be successful in the ...
PayPal Sees Need for Both RDBMS, Hadoop
Big data and therefore Hadoop are at the center of many important processes within 15-year-old PayPal, says the Internet bank’s Director of Engineering Anil Madan. But that does not mean that he sees any decrease in the importance of traditional RDBMS applications. Both are important, he said in an interview in the SiliconAngle Cube from ...
Apache Cassandra Meets Hadoop at DataStax
“This whole Hadoop thing is really catching on,” says Matt Pfeil, Co-Founder and VP of Customer Solutions for DataStax, the company behind the productization of Apache Cassandra. Cassandra, Pfeil explained in an interview in the SiliconAngle Cube at Hadoop Summit 2012, is the real-time NoSQL database system for high availability, multi-location, online processing. DataStax has ...
Hortonworks Focused on Making Apache Hadoop Enterprise-Ready
Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden opened the Hadoop Summit 2012 show his company is sponsoring with a message of cooperation rather than competition and said his company’s goal remains developing Apache Hadoop into a enterprise-ready technology platform. Asked by John Furrier in an interview on the SiliconAngle Cube at the start of the show about the ...
Cloud Provider Combines High Security and Efficiency on Dell Backbone
“Security is a challenge for every cloud provider,” says Alex Rodriguez, VP of Systems Engineering and Product Development for Pittsburgh-based communications and cloud service provider Expedient Communications. “You are asking clients to trust you with their critical applications and data.” Expedient builds that trust by consistently delivering services that meet customers’ most demanding SLAs, he ...
Your Complete Guide to Hadoop: Issues, Ecosystem and More
Is your company interested in Hadoop? Want to look like an expert to your boss? Wikibon Principal Research Contributor Jeff Kelly has published a comprehensive assessment of the state of Hadoop and the five Hadoop vendors, focusing on the major remaining issues in this still immature technology rather than on the advantages of Big Data ...
Dell Force10 Champions Network Virtualization
Data networking switches have traditionally been huge boxes that “are about rigid networking, think mainframe,” says Arpit Joshipura, head of networking product management and marketing for Dell Force10 Networks. Dell is bringing a new, more flexible and less expensive vision to the market based on virtualizing the network to support a fabric of smaller “pizza ...