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How Do You Power Analytics at the Speed of Innovation?
Inhi Cho Suh, the vice president of product management for IBM’s information management business, discussed her company’s latest Big Data announcements in an interview with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante. Suh states that her company’s goal is to facilitate analytics at the speed of exploration. This objective was underscored by the recent launch of BLU Accelerator and ...
What’s Flash’s Role in Analytics? Watson Has a Leading Part
Flash is enabling a number of new things in the data center, even bringing transactions and analytics closer together. Colin Parris, the general manager of IBM’s Power Systems Unit, shared his unique perspective on solid-state storage and Big Data in a recent interview with Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante, at an IBM Flash ...
Flash is Just as Transformative as Open-Source Big Data, says IBM’s Steve Mills
Steve Mills, the SVP and group executive of software and systems for IBM, discussed his company’s plan to invest$1 billion in flash storage with Wikibon’s Dave Vellante at a media event held this week in New York. Vellante starts the interview by pointing out that this is not the first time Big Blue decided to ...
How To Effectively Share Metadata Between Apps : The Flash-Driven Transformation of IT
Vincent Hsu, an IBM Fellow and the CTO of the company’s storage business, provided his perspective on flash and its impact on the industry in an interview with Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante. Hsu starts by highlighting the main problem with spinning disk: it’s considerably slower than silicon. Processors are ten times faster ...
The Storage Alchemist Talks Flash Innovation + Business Value [Exclusive]
Steve Kenniston, a Global Storage Efficiency Evangelist for IBM often referred to as the “Storage Alchemist” thanks to his widely read IT blog of the same title, provided his take on flash storage in a recent interview with Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante. Kenniston starts by going over a recent Twitter chat that ...
We’ve Hit a Scale-Out Flashpoint in the Datacenter : An Industry First, Thanks to Open Source
SiliconAngle founding CEO John Furrier and co-host Jeff Frick brought us up to speed on the OpenStack Summit and the state of the cloud in a Monday introductory segment, courtesy of the theCube. Frick starts the discussion by noting that while OpenStack has come a long way since the first Summit in 2008, the technology ...
Nimble + Cisco Play Into Microsoft’s Vision of the Cloud : Unveils Fast Track Reference Architecture
Nimble Storage, a provider of flash-optimized storage solutions, has released new private cloud reference architecture for Microsoft customers. The Nimble Storage SmartStack for Private Cloud with Cisco consists of three-rack unit (3U) Nimble Storage CS200 Series, a midmarket hybrid storage array that’s optimized to run Microsoft solutions, and compute from Cisco. The configuration can include ...
OpenStack Summit Highlights: HP Support, Third Party Solutions Gain Traction
Data center vendors are making the most out of the fifth annual OpenStack Summit, being held in Portland, Oregon this week. Hewlett-Packard, VMware and Hortonworks are among the many firms that already made headlines at this year’s conference. Here’s a quick recap of today’s highlights: HP announced that it has made a significant portion of its converged ...
Why IBM Spent $1 Billion on Flash? Supercharged Analytics
Last week, IBM introduced a new flash appliance and announced that it will invest one billion dollars in flash memory R&D. It’s a big commitment for a technology that’s making waves in the datacenter, enabling countless configurations and new options in scalability. Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante attended the company’s media event in ...
Pica8 Pulls the Covers Off New SDN Framework
Pica8 just announced a new software-defined networking solution for cloud service providers, the Pica8 Open Data Center Framework. The Palo Alto-based startup pegs its latest offering as a suite of “essential building blocks” for programmable center networks – it features support for OpenFlow 1.2 and Open vSwitch. “For many, utilizing SDN in their data center ...