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Cloud computing becoming core competency for 2016, says Wikibon
Cloud computing is becoming a core IT and business competency that is impacting both the ways in which companies build products and how the IT industry functions, writes Wikibon Cloud Analyst Brian Gracely. Data from the recently published “2015 Future of Cloud Computing” survey, a joint effort by Wikibon and North Bridge Venture Partners involving more ...
Software exec Steve Mills retires from IBM
IBM Executive VP Steven A. (Steve) Mills, a 40-year IBM veteran and a key player on the IBM management team for the past two decades, retired on December 31, according to several published reports. The announcement was cited as the cause of a sharp drop in IBM shares on the New York Stock Exchange earlier ...
Building “true” private clouds must become an IT mandate, says Wikibon analyst
There’s good news for IT organizations trying to compete with public cloud in pricing, agility and breadth of services. “True” private cloud systems will begin shipping in 2016, writes Wikibon Cloud Analyst Brian Gracely. Today, most supposed private cloud solutions are little more than “cloud washed” traditional infrastructure pieces. A true private cloud should come ...
Big Data professional services growing at 15% CAGR, says Wikibon
The worldwide Big Data professional services market will grow at a 15 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) through 2020, writes Consultant and Wikibon Analyst Ralph Finos, Ph.D. The market reached $6.4 billion in 2014, with 72 percent of Big Data adopters leveraging professional services, according to the 2014 Wikibon Big Data Analytical Adoption Survey. ...
Sizing up public cloud: Oracle’s strategy is clean, ambitious
One of a series of articles analyzing the strategies the largest public cloud vendors are using to court enterprise customers. Previous installments looked at Amazon Web Services, IBM and Google. For a company that was late to the cloud, Oracle has defined a clean, competitive strategy, articulated it more than most of its legacy competitors and ...
Streaming doesn’t obviate RDBMS analytics, says Wikibon
The driver in creating the Systems of Intelligence analytic data pipeline is cutting the time between capturing data and making a decision, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst George Gilbert in part two of his series on adding real-time data analysis capabilities to the batch business intelligence (BI) suite. Streaming analytics may sound like the answer ...
Rocket Software adds Cognos self-service query/visualization engine
Global software developer Rocket Software has announced Rocket Discover 1.5, a self-service query and visualization engine that allows business users to query IBM’s Cognos TM1 cubes and Cognos BI content directly through Discover’s IBM Native Connect RESTful API. The new version is a major expansion of Rocket Discover, taking full advantage of the RESTful API to expose ...
Wikibon’s George Gilbert defines the new, machine-learning based analytics pipeline for IoT
Capturing and managing the huge volumes of data being generated by Internet of Things (IoT) and deriving value from it requires a new data analytics architecture, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst George Gilbert. In his latest Professional Alert, “Recipe For An IoT-Ready Analytic Pipeline,” Gilbert provides a road map for building that new pipeline, first ...
Hybrid cloud critical to retail success, says Wikibon analyst
Hybrid clouds are increasingly being seen as a solution to meeting the increased agility demands of business transformation. However, writes Wikibon Cloud Analyst Brian Gracely, companies face challenges in managing a true hybrid cloud that can support easy movement and bursting of applications and data between the private and public clouds. In his latest Professional ...
Hybrid cloud demands tough choices, Wikibon says
Hybrid cloud is becoming increasingly attractive to CIOs. However, the big question that the hybrid model raises is which applications to keep on the private cloud and which to move to a public cloud. A move to hybrid cloud presents opportunities to optimize or augment applications, including those that will be kept on-premise, writes Wikibon ...