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The Secret Sauce Behind Fusion-io’s Latest Benchmark? Software [VIDEO]
Fusion-io recently published a report that showed its flash cards can deliver a record-breaking 9.6 million I/O per second. Wikibon co-founder and CTO David Floyer discussed the benchmark and the secret sauce behind the firm’s latest technical achievement on the SiliconAngle NewsDesk show (full video below). Floyer elaborates on the fact that Fusion-io recorded 9.6 million ...
What You Missed in Big Data : Hadoop Startups Make Strides
This past week in Big Data: Rackspace picked up a NoSQL startup, Platfora released its flagship product, and MapR announced two major updates that got the open-source community excited. On Thursday Rackspace disclosed that it acquired Exceptional Cloud Services, an emerging Redis solutions provider from the Bay Area. Terms of the deal were disclosed but ...
The 3 New Buckets of the Real-Time Big Data Stack : Query, Insight + Action
What’s the intersection between the Big Data stack and real-time capabilities? The convergence is long overdue, says Trestata founder Abhishek Mehta, who discusses the market juncture on a recent NewsDesk segment (full video below). Mehta first describes how real-time analytics gradually transformed from a nice-to-have to a must-have in the past 12 months. “The capabilities you ...
Will Amazon Eat Up Enterprise Infrastructure? Find Out at Next Month’s Peer Incite
Amazon’s moving in on the enterprise datacenter with some compelling developments and a burgeoning product line up. To really drill down on what this means for Amazon, its market position and the state of the industry, make time for Wikibon’s next Peer Incite, scheduled for Thursday, April 23. Jason Mendenhall, the executive vice president of cloud for co-location ...
The Cloud War Rages On: How Amazon is Changing the Industry
Amazon’s successful expansion into the traditional enterprise market has triggered a massive response from the data center vendors that once monopolized this space. Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante discussed how this competition is driving new trends on yesterday’s NewsDesk segment with Kristin Feledy (full video below). Vellante starts by saying that Amazon has come ...
NetApp and Equinix, Unveil Private Cloud Solution for AWS
Amazon is putting the heat on traditional data center vendors with its quest to becoming a force to be reckoned with in the enterprise IT market. In view of the company’s success in accomplishing this goal, NetApp has adopted a new strategy: if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. The storage vendor announced a new ...
Cloud Wars Episode II: Return of the VMware – Breaking Analysis
According to recent reports, PayPal is abandoning VMware for OpenStack, an open-source cloud platform that has picked up a lot of steam in just a couple of years. Senior Analyst Stu Miniman appeared on the this morning’s NewsDesk show to take an in-depth look at the story and what is means for VMware in the ...
MapR Open-sources Hadoop Distro, Bundles with Ubuntu
MapR had two major updates today: the company released the source code of its Hadoop distribution, and provided details on a fresh partnership with Canonical to develop a version of Ubuntu that will be pre-integrated with MapR M3, the community edition of its platform. The source code of MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop is available ...
Rackspace Develops a Taste for NoSQL, Buys Redis to Bolster Lineup
Rackspace shelled out an undisclosed sum for Exceptional Cloud Services, a San-Francisco-based startup that develops solution for Redis. Redis is a popular open source key-value store that is designed to support large databases which process transactions at very rapid speeds – in other words, Big Data. As a part of the deal, Rackspace is acquiring ...
Big Data Deep Dive Conclusion: The Future of Analytics
Big Data”s been quite the buzzword this past year, but what’s next for this most promising technology? In the sixth and final episode of the Big Data Deep Dive series, SiliconAngle CEO John Furrier and Wikibon co-founder Dave Vellante discuss the future of Big Data with EMC TV anchor Richard Schlesinger (full video below). Vellante ...