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Will flash replace disk? Join the #AllFlash CrowdChat Aug. 25
In 2008, Wikibon’s David Floyer was the first analyst to publicly predict that high speed spinning disk would give way to flash devices. He was also one of the first to predict the rise of the all-flash data center. But not everyone agrees. Some people believe that advances in disk densities will continue to outpace flash ...
GE Predix chief architect sees IoT analytics as a game changer
Designing an analytics platform for the Internet of Things (IOT) present some big challenges that users of typical business analytics systems don’t have to confront. Devices in remote locations with slow or nonexistent connections – such as sensors on wind turbines in the North Atlantic – aren’t like office PCs. That means decision-making needs to ...
Cisco earnings show company on track to software-first strategy
Cisco Systems Inc.’s quarterly revenues fell 2 percent from a year ago, but the company slightly beat Wall Street expectations on both the top and bottom line. But the mostly upbeat earnings report was overshadowed by an announcement that Cisco will lay off up to 5,500 employees, or nearly 7 percent of its workforce, as it continues its ...
Managing clouds harder than IT leaders expect, survey says
Is this the trough of disillusionment? The tantalizing promise of cloud computing to make IT operations, simpler and cheaper may be yielding to the reality of an environment that is more complex and difficult to manage than many respondents had expected, at least according to a new survey by cloud automation vendor Logicworks Corp. The ...
Integration vendor SnapLogic adds Hive, Teradata connectors
Data integration vendor SnapLogic Inc. is introducing its Summer 2016 release of the SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform, expanding the library of connectors it calls “Snaps,” improving security in Hadoop environments and improving performance through parallelization of ingestion and delivery services. The company, which calls its product an enterprise integration platform-as-a-service (iPaaS) touts ease-of-use, scalability and ...
How GE Predix tackles the unique challenges of the industrial IoT
Much of the industrial world has been unable to capitalize on the digital revolution because data was locked up in disconnected machines or couldn’t be processed economically. The new world of connected equipment and big data analytics commonly called the Internet of things (IoT) will change all that. “Workers in the industrial sector have been ...
#CUBEConversation: Entrepreneur Rubin sees ClearSkies ahead
ClearSky Data Inc. emerged from stealth almost exactly a year ago with a proposal to all but erase the distinction between on-premise and cloud storage. Its novel architecture uses co-location facilities to enable customers to fluidly move data back and forth between their data centers and the cloud. The company has since begun shipping commercial ...
Ohio consortium gives R developers direct line to Watson
Columbus Collaboratory, a consortium of Ohio-based companies that are banding together to focus on solving knotty problems using analytics, has released an open-source extension to the R programming language that data scientists can use to access and build with IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence supercomputer. The Collaboratory, whose members include American Electric Power Company Inc., Battelle ...
Survey finds U.S. firms overrate digital transformation success
Digital transformation may be hotter than Las Vegas in August, but there’s a disconnect between the progress companies are making toward becoming more digital and their perceptions of their own success. QuickBase Inc., a former Intuit Inc. subsidiary that makes programming tools for mere mortals,, surveyed 301 IT and operational decision-makers in the U.S. and ...
MapR raises another $50M, says IPO goal is in sight
Big data platform vendor MapR Technologies Inc., has raised another $50 million, bringing its total funding to $194 million and giving it the runway executives said it needs to get to an initial public offering (IPO). Both the timing and the amount seem tuned to get to the finish line without losing control of the timetable. ...