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The Cloud Review: New Services for Consumers and Devs
This past week featured several important updates. A service with the potential to disrupt the cloud locker space emerged on Kickstarter; Microsoft finally launched Windows Azure Infrastructure Services, and Xamarian unveiled its latest offering on the heels of a milestone acquisition. In addition, Jamcracker updated its cloud brokerage service. The Kickstarter project that got the ...
How To Build Smarter Flash Arrays? OpenStack APIs Help You Capture the Flag
SiliconAngle and Wikibon set up shop at this week’s OpenStack Summit in Portland to bring you the latest on the project, including news and insights from the executives who attended the event. David Cahill, the director of strategy alliances for SolidFire, stopped by theCube and provided us with his insider’s take on the company’s recent ...
Why is Flash the Future of IT? Krishna Nathan, VP of Storage Development for IBM, Explains
Systems and storage are finally coming together, and IBM is at the forefront of this potentially revolutionary transition. Krishna Nathan, the head of development for Big Blue’s storage business, explained how flash is unifying the data center in a recent interview with Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante. Nathan says that storage has historically been ...
Closing the Gap on Big Data Education, Cloudera Teams with Top Universities Around the World
Data scientists are a rare commodity in today’s job market, and this is not expected to change anytime soon. In a recently published study, the McKinsey Global Institute predicted that demand for professionals with Big Data know-how will continue to exceed supply for the foreseeable future. “By 2018, the United States alone could face a ...
Sprint Nextel Explains Why Flash Finally Makes Sense : Pricing
Karim Abdullah, the IT Ops Director for Sprint Nextel’s Technology Services unit, told Wikibon’s Vellante that his company had several good reasons to implement IBM’s flash technology in its data centers. Sprint operates 121 call centers worldwide, but up until recently the company struggled with storage-side performance issues, and had difficulties providing adequate support as ...
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 ...