David Floyer

David Floyer is Wikibon’s resident CTO. Floyer spent more than twenty years at IBM holding positions in research, sales, marketing, systems analysis and running IT operations for IBM France. He directly worked with IBM’s largest European customers including BMW, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and Lloyd’s Bank. Floyer was a Research Vice President at International Data Corporation (IDC) and is a recognized expert in IT strategy, economic value justification, systems architecture, performance, clustering, and systems software.

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Analysis: Oracle Cloud@Customer brings breakthrough full cloud experience on-premises

Oracle Corp. last week made some cloud announcements that represent the most ambitious attempt yet, among a number of others, to bring a full cloud experience to enterprises’ on-premises data centers. The most noteworthy of the announcements were the availability of Autonomous Database on Exadata Cloud@Customer (including Autonomous Data Guard) and Oracle Dedicated Region Cloud@Customer. Together, they represent a radical ...
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Exiting x86: Why Apple and Microsoft are embracing the Arm-based PC

In a sea change, Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. are exiting Intel Corp.’s x86 processor architecture for their personal computers. Apple has been using x86 for 15 years, Microsoft for more than 30 years. Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook (pictured) announced the transition to the Arm Ltd.-based PC for the macOS at its online Worldwide Developers Conference this ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE

Analysis: How AWS’ new Outposts service enables the hybrid cloud

This is a new report from Wikibon, SiliconANGLE Media’s market research company. Introduction AWS is bringing its core technologies into enterprise data centers and to the network edge. This move dramatically increases the reach and range of AWS, and it’s the start of an era of hybrid computing. Wikibon projected that AWS would announce its ...

Energy Saving Service Opportunities from Veridity

Veridity announced EnergyCenter Version 2.0 on June 21 2011, and now represents a new opportunity for service providers to sell software and services to help clients achieve significant savings in power costs, and improve utilization of IT resources in mid-size and larger data centers. The Achilles heel of such services is the setup costs, with ...