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In the New Consumer World, VDI Must Deliver to Multiple Platforms
“We are living in a new world where Windows no longer is the only choice, it is just one choice,” says Vittorio Viarengo, vice president of end-user computing for VMworld. “Windows will be around for a long time,” he said in an interview in The Cube with Wikibon Chief Analyst David Vellante and SiliconAngle CEO ...
Flash Storage Will Fix the Storage Access Time Problem
One of the main issues of storage is slow data access times, basically caused by the limitations of spinning disks, which must be searched sequentially at a speed determined by their spin rate. As disk capacities have grown while disk speeds have remained essentially unchanged, that problem has exacerbated. It is particularly acute for users ...
SocialCast Builds Communications Supporting Geographically Dispersed Operations
Business has changed, and SocialCast is working to create the new communications streams businesses need to support that new operational reality, says Tim Young, CEO of the social media communications startup recently acquired by VMware. “Even 10 years ago, businesses would design and build a product using a team in one location, and everybody involved ...
HP Refocus Will Get Little Return on PC Branch Sale
David Cahill does not like HP’s stategic announcements last week. In a new Professional Alert posted Friday on Wikibon he picks the announcements apart and provides what he maintains are better choices. First he predicts that in the present market HP will get little return on the sale of its PCM division. Apple, he argues, ...
The Disruptive Nature of NAND Flash Storage Explained
Flash storage, on everything from large, high speed servers to laptops, is a major technology disrupter that will replace high-speed SAS disk systems on servers and disk drives in laptops and desktop PCs. It is already making inroads in those markets, with large Cloud service companies and medium-sized businesses alike moving to Fusion-io NAND Flash ...
In-House SaaS, Security and Other Software Questions Answered
Wikibon member and Software-as-a-Service expert Derek Singleton, who provides detailed information on SaaS and in-house business software on Software Advice Web site, has posted an article providing answers to the top three questions that businesses ask about SaaS on Wikibon, found here. He gives a brief discussion of some of the primary rules-of-thumb for manufacturers ...
Erasure Coding – The New Approach to Data Archiving
Long term data archiving is a major problem for businesses of all sizes and market areas, but particularly for those who operate under regulatory environments that require long-term archiving of fairly large amounts of data such as business e-mails and other communications. Even those not covered by such regulations have to preserve basic business records, ...
Keep Budget Discussions at Lowest Business Level Amidst Debt Crisis
CIOs should keep their language at “the lowest possible business level” when discussing their budgets with CFOs and CEOs, writes financial commentator Gerald Hallaren in a piece on Wikibon.org titled IT and the economy: How to shine in a tough environment, the first in a series. Hallaren warns that the present sputtering economy will probably ...
How to Get Around Apple’s Anti In-App Rules: HTML5
Wikibon’s financial commentator Gerald Hallaren has posted a short piece outlining how publishers can use HTML-5 to get around Apple’s requirement that e-book and other e-publishing apps use the App Store to sell publications, and pay 30% of the price to Apple, rather than having in-app sales capabilities. In recent months Apple has forced the ...
Cloud Computing Not Always Cheaper: Zynga Case Study
Consultant David Cahill has published a ground-breaking case history of online game developer Zynga, famous for such games as “Farmville”, with a focus on how it handles the huge volumes of valuable data it harvests from the games. What makes this a particularly important piece, based on a presentation Zynga made at the Interop Enterprise ...