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Hadoop/hBase Big Data Market Booming, Says Cloudera CEO
Big data is booming, says Cloudera CEO Mike Olson. Hortonworks is “doing great work along with us and many others in driving the Hadoop platform forward,” he said in an interview webcast live in the Cube from hBaseCon2012 over at SiliconAngle.tv (see full video below). And one indication of that is the entry of major ...
IT Shifting from Nuts and Bolts to Services, Says GlaxoSmithKline [Video]
IT is in a transition towards being a service manager says Robert P. Mattie II, director of services integration at GlaxoSmithKline, “and cloud is a good start in the shift to services.” Business users are getting used to finding their own applications, either bought off-the-shelf, downloaded, or in the cloud as services, that they can ...
EMC to Integrate Avamar, Data Domain to Create End-to-End Solution
EMC is focused on providing an end-to-end hardware/software data protection system, says EMC BRS Division President William “BJ” Jenkins. To do that,” he said on The Cube from EMC World 2012 on Monday, May 21, “it is going to move toward integrating its Avamar and Data Domain backup systems over the next year. “Complexity is a ...
Informatica Evolving into Big Data Management Suite
With its new version 9.5, Informatica takes a big step in its evolution from a data-integration point-solution to a comprehensive data management suite for big data, says Wikibon Analyst Jeff Kelly in his latest Alert, “Informatica 9.5 Focus on Big Data Maturity.” All of the major enhancements and new features are intended to make realizing ...
Oracle Exadata/Exalogic Not Selling With Good Reason, Says Analyst
Oracle’s Exadata and Exalogic systems are more expensive and provide less performance and interconnectivity, writes Wikibon Co-founder and CTO David Floyer in “The Limited Value of Oracle Exadata”, the first of two new Alerts on the products. In the second, “Oracle Exadata and Exalogic Sales Not Meeting Expectations”, he adds that they do not appear ...
BU Medical School Combines EMC Isolon, Actifio Backup to Capture, Backup, and Archive Big Data
When John Meyers, Ph.D., came to the Boston University School of Medicine as a medical researcher, he stepped into a chaotic data environment. “Servers were under lab benches. Irreplaceable repositories of years worth of data resided on NAS boxes on lab benches with no backup. I wouldn’t use the term ‘infrastructure’ to describe the situation.” ...
Automated Tiered Storage Providing Cost Savings, Risk Reduction [Report]
A just-published study by Wikibon CTO David Floyer and Analyst Nick Allen finds that Automated Tiered Storage (ATS) is being adopted by midrange companies, many of whom are taking on an aggressive policy of ATS adoption following their positive early experiences. The study, “Assessment of Automated Tiered Storage for Midrange Arrays”, concludes that ATS cost ...
U.S. Government issues Warning of Specific Malware Exploit at Overseas Hotels
Software update notices at overseas hotels may actually be attempts to infect travelers’ laptops with malware warns the U.S. government’s Internet Crime Complain Center (IC3). In a recent Intelligence Note, the IC3 says travelers’ attempting to connect to Internet hotspots in overseas hotels are receiving pop-up windows offering an update to a legitimate, popular application. ...
SAP, Oracle, Windows All Run Fine on VMware at James Hardie
Three years ago the IT shop at James Hardie Building Products had not yet hit the wall, but it could see the wall ahead in terms of space and power requirements to support steady business growth. So, said Steve Killan, enterprise server manager for the U.S.-based manufacturer of fiber cement siding and backerboard and other ...
SAN Cheaper than DAS for Most Exchange Installations
SAN is less expensive than DAS for all on premise Microsoft Exchange installations with more than 500 seats, or that are likely to grow above that level, or installations of any size that require high availability, writes Wikibon CTO David Floyer in “Revisiting SAN vs DAS for Exchange 2010. This is a significant change from ...