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VDI Showing Signs of Intelligent Life, Says Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe
“Fortunately, we’re beginning to see signs of intelligent life in the primordial goo that is VDI,” writes Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in his latest Alert, “VDI’s Evolution Provides New Opportunities for Deployment.” Lowe reports significant evolution in the technology’s genetics, particularly in the areas of reducing the huge initial investments, dealing with morning boot and ...
What Do You Think of IT Transformation? [Survey]
Wikibon is inviting IT practitioners to participate in an open survey of the impact of IT transformation. Results of the survey, which will close soon, will inform Wikibon research and analysis. All responses will be anonymized and the identities of all contributors held in strict confidence. Respondents will be entered into a drawing for a ...
Complex Clouds Ruin IT Budgets [Report]
Wikibon CEO David Vellante and CTO David Floyer have published a major “Special Report on Infrastructure Futures: Keeping Pace in the Era of Big Data Growth” examining the major trends in IT technology in light of the overall issues IT faces in the new decade. One of those issues is the explosion in the percent ...
Online Threat Growing Rapidly, Can Destroy Companies, says FBI Cyber Security Head
Physical threats to the nation’s infrastructure and other sensitive assets aren’t the only ones to keep an eye on. “Critical threats facing our nation today emanate from the cyber realm,” said Shawn Henry, then Executive Assistant Director of the FBI for cyber security in a speech at the Information Systems Security Association International Conference in Baltimore. ...
EMC’s Purchase of XtremIO a Bleeding-Edge Move for Mainstream Flash Adoption
In his latest Wikibon Peer Incite, “EMC Invited XtremIO to the Flash-only Ball”, co-founder and CTO David Floyer analyzes EMC’s purchase of flash-storage startup XtremIO, and discusses why EMC picked this particular vendor and, more important, why it bought a flash-only storage company at all. Basically, he says, EMC clearly sees the writing on the ...
Users Missing Opportunities as Vendor Support Embraces Multiple Delivery Channels
Major hardware and software vendors are embracing multiple channels beyond existing portals and e-mail to provide better support to their customers says IDC Services and Support Analyst Elaina Stergiades. Each vendor has a different approach, however, based on its overall strategy. And these expanded services offerings can take months to put into place as the vendors ...
Is Encryption the Answer to Data Security in the Cloud?
The near simultaneous advent of cloud, true mobile, and big data technologies has hugely complicated data security, a problem that many companies are only beginning to understand, says Securosis Analyst and President Mike Rothman. This growing realization is helping to drive adoption of data encryption. But while encryption is an important tool for protecting data that no longer resides ...
Is Microsoft Hyper-V Free?
What is the real effective cost of Microsoft Hyper-V for data centers using Microsoft Windows Server-based products? Scott Lowe, former CIO, founder and managing consultant of The 1610 Group, and Wikibon.org analyst, argues that effectively Hyper-V is free in his latest Wikibon post, “Leveraging Hyper-V economics to simplify the CIO role”. And he proves his ...
VSPEX Provides Enterprise-Level IT Stack Integration, Validation with Flexibility to SMBs
EMC’s VSPEX architecture provides channel partners and the SMBs they sell to with enterprise-level integration of the IT stack from the hardware level through the network to orchestration-aware applications with the same level of validation that large enterprises expect, says Prasad Rampalli, senior VP of Solutions Engineering at EMC. And, Gregg Ambulos, SVP of Global Channel ...
XEON Provides Next-Gen Tech, More Storage Efficiency with Erasure Coding
Intel’s new XEON processor family provides next-generation technology with chip-level support for erasure coding, a more efficient way to provide backup, says Chinmay S. Patel, ecosystems manager in the Storage Group at Intel. It provides 95% storage efficiency by deduping as data comes in and by eliminating the need for the multiple data copies typical of ...