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The Wikibon Survival Guide for AWS Rivals + Wannabes
Amazon’s role in transforming the cloud into the megatrend it is today has enabled it to secure a dominant position in the marketplace. Wikibon estimates that Amazon Web Services (AWS) raked in nearly $2 billion in 2012, and predicts that the platform will generate over $3 billion in revenue by end of this year. AWS ...
Big Data Review: Tokutek Launches New Offerings, Dell Introduces Toad 2.0 and More
Three different vendors had announced major product updates this week. Tokutek open-sourced the latest version of its MySQL platform and unveiled a new enterprise service, Pentaho acquired a Portuguese firm by the name of Webdetails, and Dell introduced a new release of its database management platform. Tokutek released the source-code for TokuDB 7, the latest ...
Weekly Cloud Review: Pivotal Funding, Amazon Launches DevOps Utility + More
This week Pivotal Labs raised over $100 million in funding from a high profile investor, VMware reported its first quarter earnings, and MuleSoft acquired a partner to boost its cloud API platform. Amazon also made headlines when it launched a new tool that simplifies the management of AWS environments. General Electric injected $105 million into Pivotal ...
FlashCube Highlights : Invest in Flash or Fall Behind the Pack
SiliconAngle founding CEO John Furrier discussed the flash M&A scene with Wikibon’s David Floyer and Dave Vellante in a FlashCube episode that aired this Wednesday. Vellante starts the discussion by going over the most recent high-profile acquisitions in this space: IBM’s acquisition of Texas Memory Systems, and the $430 million EMC-XtremIO deal that was announced in May 2012. ...
IBM CEO Reshuffles Management after Poor Q1 Results, Not Likely to Make a Difference
IBM reported its first quarter earnings last week, missing the Street’s estimate for the first time in nearly 8 years. The news sent IBM’s stock tumbling down, and forced CEO Virginia Rometty to reassign one of her top execs. The exec also released an “unusually blunt” video memo in which she chided the company’s 434,000 ...
CIOs, Beware of Cloud Sprawl : But One Arrow in the Quiver
Scott Lowe, the founder of The 1610 Group, writes that the buzz around cloud computing has subsided a great deal in recent years. As a result, IT departments are no longer pressured by the proposition that the cloud is an “immediate replacement” for on-premise infrastructure, but CIOs face new challenges that have to be addressed ...
Big Data and the Public Cloud Make a Perfect Couple, says Analyst
Analyzing external Big Data in the cloud makes more sense than bringing it in-house, says Wikibon’s Jeff Kelly. He outlined the reasons organizations should trust third party data with their cloud provider in his latest piece on the Wikibon blog. The public cloud offers an optimal environment for testing proof-of-concepts, but moving sensitive corporate data ...
Amazon is Stirring the Cloud Pot, but Rivals Still In the Mix
Jason Mendenhall, executive vice president for cloud at Switch Communications, the collocation provider that operates the “ginormous” SuperNap data center in Las Vegas, says that Amazon Web Services is not growing at the expense of the enterprise market – quite the opposite. During this week’s Wikibon Peer Incite event, he discussed how the public cloud ...
Open-Source Flash is Powering Hyperscale, Starts with Consumers, says Fusion-io’s Gary Orenstein
Gary Orenstein, senior vice president of products for Fusion-io, took some time off this week to chat with SiliconAngle founding CEO John Furrier and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante. The trio discussed flash, Big Data, and software-led infrastructure. Orenstein, a Cube alumnus, starts the discussion by providing an overview of the solid-state market. He explains how flash evolved ...
Pentaho Snatches up Webdetails to Boost Data Visualization, Services
Business intelligence provider Pentaho picked up Webdetails, a Portuguese consultancy that has designed numerous plugins for its software over the course of the past few years. The 20-strong team is best known for its Community Tools, or “CTools”, a set of free utilities for creating dashboards and reports. Although the terms of the deal were ...