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#SparkSummit East wrapup: Big demand for evolving technology
The Apache Spark analytics engine is still immature, and this year’s Spark Summit East was more of a technology than a business conference. But Spark is also generating huge enthusiasm, and not just from techies. IT organizations and even non-technical business people, as well as big data pundits like Wikibon’s George Gilbert (@ggilbert41) see Spark as ...
Watch #SparkSummitEast on theCUBE for real-time coverage of real-time Hadoop
This week theCUBE goes to Apache Spark Summit East 2016 (#SparkSummitEast) for two days of continuous coverage today from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET and tomorrow from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.. Coming just 44 days after the January 4 release of Apache Spark v. 1.6.0, billed as a stable version, this conference marks the ...
Wikibon sees true private cloud promise emerging in converged infrastructure
For IT organizations to compete against public cloud services they must deliver services to end-users that duplicate the basic advantages of the public cloud, including business user self-service access to logical resource pools of compute, network and storage optimized for lower-cost operations. These must be available on demand with the flexibility to allow users to ...
Why is the private cloud market so much smaller than public cloud? Wikibon explains
Public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is 3.5 times the size of the true private cloud market, based on Wikibon’s recently released “Private Cloud Market Sizing and Forecast for 2015-2026” (premium subscription required for full report). Given that internal IT organizations increasingly compete with public sites such as Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, why ...
Oracle’s storage vision promises next-generation advantages, says Wikibon
Oracle has enunciated a vision for its storage cloud that focuses on lower cost basic storage along with advanced management that can bridge on premise and the Oracle public cloud. It includes automated backup to the Oracle Storage Cloud and full support for object storage of multiple unstructured data types. The cloud-based backup is to ...
Wikibon analyst praises Oracle appliance for private clouds
Oracle has been building what it calls Engineered Systems – basically appliances – since it purchased Sun Microsystems Inc. in 2010. Over the years it has built out the industry’s most comprehensive application portfolio, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer (right) in “Oracle Database Appliance evolves as an Enterprise Private Cloud Building Block.” While other converged systems ...
NetApp ONTAP migration value often marginal, says Wikibon
Wikibon is advising clients that migrating existing databases to new stand-alone storage systems is often of marginal value at best. Specifically, Wikibon CTO David Floyer writes, Oracle Corp. customers using NetApp, Inc.’s, ONTAP 7-Mode storage should carefully assess migration options before moving their data to NetApp Clustered ONTAP. The break-even point for most of those ...
Software-defined protection eases backup woes, says Wikibon
Data protection is broken, and IT organizations need new, software-defined solutions, said Wikibon Chief Analyst David Vellante in a recent CUBEconversation (see video below). Data is growing at exponential rates, driven by the Internet of Things (IoT), machine-generated data and new Systems of Insight that combine transactional data with analytics. The 24x7x365 cloud business environment ...
Preparation demands new rigor in Big Data age, says Wikibon analyst
Preparing data for analysis in the age of Big Data, with multiple data types and sources and severe time restraints, are radically different than traditional extract, transform load (ETL) procedures that have existed for a long time. For Big Data, the pipeline becomes collect, prepare, blend, transform and distribute (see figure above). In “Unpacking the ...
Add inline analytics to systems of record to create data-driven business, says Wikibon
Enterprises can realize transformativel business advantages by streamlining their existing systems of record and adding inline analytics, including predictive analytics and modern decision management systems. This creates a coherent and agile new operating model that Wikibon calls “systems of intelligence.” The resulting information, writes Wikibon CTO and Co-Founder David Floyer, must be made available both ...