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EMC Should Leverage Cisco Connection to Boost its Channel Strategy
EMC has been struggling to build its channel business for some time, says Colin McNamara, Director of Data Center Practice for Cisco channel partner Nexus IS, EMC’s VSPEX announcement is a big step forward, he says, but it needs more. “Now for EMC to be successful they have to partner with Cisco, which has built much ...
One Company’s Quest for Affordable Zero Data Loss: Peer Incite this Week
Tim Hays, VP of IT at Animal Health International, will discuss his the quest for an affordable zero data loss solution at the next Wikibon Peer Incite meeting. The company, a distributor of premier food and health products for cattle, horses, poultry, swine, cats, and dogs, was formed by the merger of Lextron Inc. and Walco ...
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Online Backup: Debated by the Pros
The Wikibon community debated the pros and cons of online data backup, recovery, and DR versus traditional tape with Mike Adams, storage specialist for service provider Lighthouse Computer Systems, on Tuesday, April 3. Adams started his presentation on Lighthouse’s service with what turned out to be a controversial statement – that it could replace tape backup. ...
10Gb Ethernet Finally Coming of Age?
For a decade, network analysts have touted 10Gb Ethernet as the next step in internal network technology. But until now various factors including the cost, the added complexity and need to retrain network personnel, and simply a lack of perceived need have confined 10Gb to SANs and other niches where pure network speed ruled. For ...
Integration, Convergence, Virtualization Demand Holistic Approach to Services says HP Director
HP has redesigned its services offerings in response to the increasing amount of integration, convergence, and virtualization in data centers, says Flynn Maloy, senior director of the HP Support Services Portfolio. In a live interview from the Cube, webcast on SiliconAngle.tv (see video below) from HP’s Always On Services Launch, he said that most services companies ...
Support Meets Immersion in HP Mobile App-Driven Service [Video Interview]
Computer game developers like to talk about the “immersive experience” their products provide. HP has come close to creating its own immersive experience mobile app for customers, but instead of a game this free app turns the customer’s tablet into a window into his IT environment and HP’s service and support. The app provides direct ...
Live Talk: Leveraging Human Capital Techniques to Increase IT DevOps Productivity
The Wikibon community will sponsor a public discussion of how a capital management company applies human capital techniques to achieve productivity, quality, and time-to-deployment breakthroughs in IT devops Tuesday, March 6, at 12:00 P.M. EST (9:00 A.M. PST). The Peer Incite discussion will be webcast live on SiliconAngle.tv. Wolfgang Goerlich, information systems and security manager ...
Kaggle Sees Data Science as a Sport
With the tagline, “Data science as a sport,” Kaggle helps companies and government agencies, including NASA and Allstate Insurance, develop big data predictive analytical algorithms for a wide variety of data-dependent questions by creating contests and enlisting large numbers of independent data scientists worldwide to post entries. Kaggle was inspired by the Netflix Prize, company President ...
Traditional BI Vendor Goes Big Data, Connecting Disparate Databases [VIDEO]
Pentaho is a traditional BI analytics vendor that has moved aggressively into the era of big data. It is trying to create a place for itself as the interconnect among transactional RDBMS databases, high-performance analytics databases, NoSQL databases and big data systems. If, as Ahbi Mehta says, the real value is in business analysis that works ...
Big Data Analytics to Revolutionize Services, Says Industry CEO
Knowledge process outsourcing will be the next new thing following business process outsourcing and will revolutionize the traditional business services market says David Rich, who recently left Accenture Analytics to become CEO of Revolution Analytics. The potential to combine almost unlimited data and crowdsourcing with traditional descriptive and predictive analytics with a staff of data ...