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Data is infinite; the issue is cost, says Wikibon’s George Gilbert
The oft-cited study claiming 40 percent annual data growth is wrong, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst George Gilbert in “Getting Ready for Big data 3.0 and the IoT”. Data volume is essentially limitless; the limiting factor is the cost of storing it, he writes Traditional systems-of-record data, created and captured by humans, has historically cost roughly ...
HPE shows strength at Discover Europe, but future remains cloudy
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) showed off new energy and unity at its coming-out party in London last week at HPE Discover Europe 2015. The clear message was this is not the old HP, which was an organization composed of silos that seldom talked to each other and at times went in different, even diametrically ...
Wikibon CTO: Data tsunami will erode Intel’s dominance
A growing list of mayor disruptive forces – mobile, cloud, social media, micro- (and soon nano-) sensors, Internet of Things (IoT), etc. – are creating a tsunami of data that is going to wash over the IT infrastructure stack and drive major change from the silicon up. Flash will replace disk storage wholesale. ARM chips, ...
No easy answers to Hadoop’s complexity, says Wikibon analyst
The bad news for companies trying to harness Big Data is that Hadoop is complex, and that complexity is not going away (see figure above). Wikibon research finds that it typically takes two years to move a Big Data project from proof-of-concept to the first production application, writes Wikibon Big Data and Analytics Analyst George ...
#HPEDiscover to address questions swirling around enterprise plans
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. (HPE) will host HPE Discover 2015 Europe in London this week, and theCUBE will be there with Wikibon Co-founder and Chief Analyst David Vellante and SiliconANGLE Co-founder and CEO John Furrier, probing for answers to the questions swirling around the new business. Coming just a month after the separation of Hewlett-Packard ...
Wikibon analyst defines need for cloud equivalents of ERP, CRM
In the late 20th century, when most businesses derived their basic value from building and selling physical products, they used complex enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to control their supply chains and manufacturing operations and customer relationship management (CRM) to relate to their customers. Today’s new software and cloud-based services demand the equivalents of ERP and CRM ...
Wikibon survey shows Hadoop making steady progress
The 2015 edition of the Wikibon Big Data survey shows companies making steady progress in adoption of Hadoop and associated technologies, writes Wikibon Big Data Analyst George Gilbert. In the 18 months since the last survey, the number of survey respondents reporting at least one production deployment has risen to 41 percent, a 10 percent ...
Don’t ignore upside of moving systems of record to cloud, Wikibon advises
As software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) have surged in popularity, core systems of record such as ERP and CRM have come to be perceived as “not cloud-ready” and best left alone. Now companies are taking a new look at systems of record and finding compelling reasons to start migrating them to IaaS providers. At the same ...
Netflix Spinnaker release indicates maturing of IaaS competition, says Wikibon
Amazon Web Services Inc. is no longer the only game in town. The Netflix Inc., release of Spinnaker, a continuous integration/continuous delivery platform, as open source is a sign that other infrastructure-as-a-service platforms are catching up, writes Wikibon analyst Brian Gracely. Netflix, an early convert to cloud-native enterprise status, runs its cloud service primarily on ...
It’s not so easy to become software-driven, says Wikibon
As CEOs watch upstarts leverage software and cloud to disrupt their industries, they are beginning to believe pundits who say that in the new era every company has to become software-driven. But, warns Wikibon Analyst Brian Gracely in “Evolving Organizational Dynamics for Cloud Native Applications,” this is a radical organizational transition that is difficult to ...