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Cisco’s Chambers will be a tough act to follow
Two years ago I worked with Cisco Systems, Inc. on a contract basis helping build the program for the company’s annual CIO Summit. The event brought together about 100 CIOs from some of the world’s largest companies for two days of strategizing and feedback with Cisco executives, including CEO John Chambers. I’ve attended a lot ...
Sprint touts single-SIM strategy for global Internet of Things service
In a bid to take advantage of the feeding frenzy over the Internet of Things (IoT) and to gain ground against market leader AT&T, Inc. , Sprint Corp. is expanding its Command Center device monitoring and control service to span more than 200 countries and supporting a wide variety of communications protocols using a single ...
Ask a Wikibon Analyst: Will Amazon Dominate the Public Cloud?
Amazon.com, Inc. reported blowout earnings on Thursday, revealing that its public cloud service business is not only on track to exceed $6 billion this year but is highly profitable and growing quickly as well. Amazon’s cloud footprint is so large that the company has been compared to the 1990s vintage of Microsoft, which dominated the ...
Wikibon analyst: Flash-as-Memory-Extension will revolutionize analytics
There’s a new kind of flash-enabled application architecture coming, and Wikibon co-founder David Floyer (right) expects it to do a lot more than take a couple of ticks off the clock. He thinks it will revolutionize the speed at which organizations deploy real-time analytics. The key components of the new architecture are high-speed DRAM memory, flash ...
Startup Avni says it makes switching clouds drag-and-drop simple
Placing a bet that the profusion of cloud computing platforms has created a new kind of problem as well as an opportunity, startup Avni, Inc. has introduced Software Defined Cloud (SDC) 2.0, a sort of cloud-of-clouds technology that it says makes it easy for customers to move applications quickly and flexibly between public and private ...
Teradata rolls out warehouse appliance, adds virtualization feature
While Teradata Corp.’s recent acquisitions should leave little doubt that the data warehousing giant is serious about distributed Hadoop Big Data, the company is also demonstrating that it hasn’t forgotten about the big integrated appliances that got it this far. The company today used its European user conference to introduce a new integrated warehousing machine that that doubles ...
Wikibon sees major disruptive potential in software containers
Wikibon analysts Steve Chambers and Stu Miniman lobbed a grenade into the so-far polite debate over whether software containers are a complement or a threat to server virtualization. Containers could not only supplant virtual machines within enterprises on a grand scale, but they may transform the software industry and redefine the way companies build and ...
Birst and Tableau partner in another marriage of BI rivals
In an arrangement that symbolizes the craziness of the rapidly evolving business intelligence (BI) market, Birst, Inc. and Tableau Software, Inc. today announced a partnership that will combine Birst’s data extraction and normalization engine with Tableau’s popular visualization software via an ODBC connector. What makes the deal a bit of a head-scratcher is that the ...
These slides are all you need to make the case for an all-flash data center
For IT leaders looking to make the case to move their entire infrastructure to flash storage, Wikibon CTO and cofounder David Floyer has a slide deck for you. Floyer’s new 30-slide presentation goes deep into the economics of flash, looking far beyond the cost of the media and digging into productivity gains that will sweep ...
Flash will soon be cheaper than disk, Wikibon research confirms
Flash storage continues on a trajectory to become more affordable than magnetic disk for the majority of IT applications by the end of 2016, according to Wikibon’s latest Storage Cost Assumptions. In fact, flash has already surpassed magnetic disk as the most cost-effective medium for performance-driven applications, according to Wikibon CTO & Co-founder David Floyer. ...