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The plot thickens: Converged vs. connected in the data apps race | #HS16SJ
Some say that 2016 will be the moment of truth for Big Data. Hype has steadily gathered around data for the past few years, and it seems now to have reached fever pitch. At the conferences, in the boardrooms and on IT teams, the question on everyone’s minds now is, “Where are the applications?” According ...
Natural selection: Is Apache the environment of evolution for Big Data? | #HS16SJ
In much the way that different physical environments shape organisms, the environment where a new technology lives will shape platforms that utilize it. Specifically, the cycle of change and innovation can be difficult to keep up with for platform vendors utilizing the technology. With the breakneck pace of innovation in Big Data right now, it’s ...
Is Linkedin’s cash-out a preview of coming attractions? | #HS16SJ
When news of Linkedin’s $26 billion sale to Microsoft hit, some in IT and business circles were at first a little stumped. What did this career networking site have that was so valuable to the software behemoth? If they’d done their homework on Big Data, however, they may not have been so surprised. Discussing the value ...
Should I stay or should I go? Figuring out where data should live | #HS16SJ
Everyone wants in on Big Data — the more data they can amass the better, right? Well, not for their traditional on-prem data centers. Companies want a large enough space to store all the data they can get their hands on, but does that mean compromising on other infrastructure features? Praveen Kankariya, CEO of Impetus ...
The revolution will be digitized: Open-source and the next industrial revolution | #RHSummit
Red Hat Summit kicked off today at the Moscone North in San Francisco with a keynote that began with an orchestral ensemble playing on stage. The theme of the summit was “the power of participation,” and the orchestra was chosen to illustrate that theme. The session’s keynote speakers talked about open-source collaboration and the way individual actors synthesize ...
Keeping it open: One company’s unique value proposition | #IBMOCA
They’re not going to buy the cow if they’re getting the milk for free — that old saw might be re-purposed to talk open-source versus proprietary IT. But in an interesting twist, one company has found that providing its technology in a free, open version and as a paid service package is actually proving to be ...
Is containerization of the network coming? | #IBMOCA
Simplification is certainly among the top factors that make or break a product or service in IT these days. Docker, Inc. has been a huge success, because it makes application development and deployment accessible to people without a ton of expertise. Now some are looking at the container technology that made Docker the darling of ...
The starting line: Figuring out your path to the cloud | #IBMOCA
With more and more cloud services accumulating — public, private, hybrid, etc. — companies that want to move to the cloud may find themselves confused about where to start. Each company’s trajectory is unique, which might seem to further complicate things, but if you take stock of where you stand and what your goals are, ...
The open-source ‘stable’ release: Bringing order to the Wild West of IT | #IBMOCA
If you want to get in on the most nascent technologies, there’s no doubt you should be playing in open source. It’s where the Dockers of tomorrow are right now being tried, tested and perfected. The technology you’re sitting and waiting for in the consumer market might already be happening in open source. Granted, the ...
Cloud 2.0: Get ready to take app development to a new level | #IBMOCA
If speed is the currency in IT these days, then applications are what you purchase with that currency. Bigger, faster, technologically more complex, yet simpler-to-use applications. Every new development, product and service that materializes has just one question to answer ultimately: Can it make my application do what I want it to do? “We are ...