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Picking the Low Hanging Fruit and Considering SaaS in a Larger Context
Obviously the place to start with any cloud migration is with the “low hanging fruit”. And you should start with one or two services as early as possible to gain experience with SaaS. This is true regardless of the size of the company or of your overall strategy. Even if that strategy is to virtualize, ...
HP Working Toward a Net Zero Green Data Center Design, Relying on Multiple Power Sources
The Moonshot program is one step toward a much larger vision, Chandrakant Patel, HP Senior Fellow, Director, HP Sustainable Technology Research told SiliconAngle Founder and CEO John Furrier and Wikibon.org Co-Founder and Chief Analyst David Vellante in a live interview from the announcement site webcast from the SiliconAngle.tv program, theCube. “This is a key steppingstone ...
Redstone Only the Start Down the Road to a New Basic Architecture for Data-Centric Computing, Says HP’s Partha Ranganathan
The basis for HP’s November 1 Moonshot announcement, and in particular the Redstone low-energy server, was the realization at HP Labs more than five years ago that the real issue in server design is not performance but “delivering what the user needs,” says Partha Ranganathan, HP Fellow in Nanostore Research and Development at HP Labs. ...
HP Sees Major Inflection Point in Redstone Low-Power Servers
Today’s announcement of the initial components of HP’s multi-year, multi-project Project Moonshot program for developing very large, very low power servers is an inflection point equivalent to the introduction of the x86 architecture in the 1990s, says Paul Santeler, VP/GM of HP’s Hyperscaler Business, Industry Standard Services & Software. The program has three initial components: ...
Cloud/Mobile Strategy: Developing a Services Approach to IT Management – Part 2
The growth of cloud and mobile computing and of cloud consumer services is changing user expectations about IT in multiple ways. Much has been written about how IT business consumers today expect internal IT to deliver highly reliable services — not computers or software — to their laptops, tablets, and smartphones. But the consumer cloud ...
A Strategy for Gaining Maximum Value from Cloud and Mobile in Your Business – Part 1
The IT industry is in the midst of a major transition, driven by a list of disruptive technologies — virtualization, cloud computing, mobile computing, big data — that are combining to revolutionize the very basic concept of computing. The IT of 2020 will be as different from that of 2010 as the IT of 2010 ...
Consultant Perspective: IT More Complex As User Expectations Shift to the Cloud and Virtualization
Consultants will see the mix of skills their clients need change over the next decade as virtualization, private and public cloud, mobile computing, and big data become more prevalent in business. But they should not worry about their overall business for the foreseeable future according to EMC Vice President of the Global Residence Practice Jackie ...
Will Tablets Replace Laptops in the Office? Not so Much
Ever since Steve Jobs showed off the first iPad on TV 18 months ago, tablets have captured the buzz in the end-user computing market. The phenomenal monthly iPad sales figures, the appearance of entirely new, dazzling products such as the digital editions of major magazines, starting with Time, and the decline in the sales of ...
Oracle Blew Social Media, but SAP Probably No Better Says Jim Lundy
Oracle, SAP, and other old-line business infrastructure companies will have a difficult time gaining traction in the private social media space on their clients’ networks says Jim Lundy, leading social media and mobility analyst, co-founder and CEO of Aragon Research and founder of Gartner’s social media practice. Oracle is particularly behind the curve because it ...
SEI Moving from EMC to Oracle? Maybe, says SVP Steven Zeh
SEI may move from EMC data storage to Oracle Exadata to support expected high volume data growth rates for its new Global Wealth Platform, SEI SVP Steven Zeh told Wikibon CEO David Velante in an interview on SiliconAngle.tv from Oracle Open World Monday. Nine years in development, the Global Wealth Platform is a new service ...