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Security Issues in the Mobile Age: An Expert’s Take
The proliferation of mobile devices from laptops to smartphones and tablets, has changed the basic profile of digital security threats facing organizations of all sizes. Whereas at one time the focus was on end-point or border security such as firewalls, with the implicit presumption that everything inside the firewall was secure, today a growing population ...
InfiniBand Leader Mellanox Slips with Latest Version
Supercomputing is the Formula 1 of computing, where speed takes precedence over everything else, including cost. Supercomputers are not just larger, faster mainframes, any more than Formula 1 race cars are just faster sports cars. There technologies like Infiniband rule, and ultra-low latency is a hot issue. So when the latest FDR Infiniband technology from ...
Carbonite vs. Dropbox. Who’s Business Model Wins?
Consultant David Cahill, principal of Diligence Technology Advisors, has published an interesting comparative analysis of the contrasting business models of Carbonite and Dropbox on Wikibon. The somewhat controversial piece, “The Economics of Carbonite, or Lack Thereof”, finds that Carbonite to an extent may be a victim of the period in which it was created, in ...
EMC, NetApp Lead in VMware Storage Integration Functionality
In April Wikibon.org surveyed its members concerning their choices and experience in virtualizing storage resources on the popular VMware hypervisor. Since then, Wikibon CTO David Floyer has published a series of informative articles on the www.wikibon.org site analyzing the results for information that can help CIOs considering the virtualization of their data center resources. In ...
The Issues Facing Education in the Cloud: An Insightful Series
Over the last month Rick Blaisdell, CTO of ConnectEdu, an education and career management site for students, parents, counselors, teachers, and administrators, has published a series of well informed articles on Wikibon.org discussing the basic issues of cloud computing. Drawing both on extensive personal experience and research, he has published a series of excellent articles ...
HP Converged Storage Sets Stage for “Infrastructure 2.0”
Wikibon CTO David Floyer has posted an extended article examining the significance of HP’s storage announcements at last week’s HP Discover conference for users on the Wikibon site. He sees the overall trend of HP’s development, the development of converged storage as a part of a larger unified infrastructure, as ushering in a new era ...
HP Has Tablet Strategy for Device Control Panels, says Wikibon CTO David Floyer
Wikibon.org CTO David Floyer has posted an article identifying an apparent strategy by HP to use handheld tablets as mobile control-panels for printers and other products. HP already has introduced office printers with 7-inch Android tablets as control panels, and Floyer believes that HP’s strategy will be to move from Android to webOS, which it ...
Prith Banerjee Lifts the Curtain on HP Labs
Earlier this week SiliconAngle Founder John Furrier sat down with HP Labs Director and HP Senior VP Prith Banerjee for a lengthy interview covering a variety of important and fascinating subjects. The recording of the interview is available here, and the full transcription is published here. The interview ranged over a list of subjects including ...
Cloud Economics Demands Best-of-Breed Infrastructure at Every Level Says David Scott of HP
When David Scott was CEO of storage startup 3PAR he argued that the economics of public cloud in particular require that service providers use best-of-breed components at every level. Now that 3PAR has been acquired by Hewlett-Packard, and its technology integrated into the HP stack, and Scott become HP’s Senior VP for Storage has he ...
Enterprises Need Multiple Hypervisors to Meet Their Complex Needs
The idea of an enterprise-level private cloud running on a single, homogeneous stack, and in particular on a single hypervisor, is “a misplaced view of the way cloud is,” says HP Senior VP of Storage and cloud visionary David Scott. “Cloud has to reflect the breadth of the application environments that enterprises have today,” he ...