Editor’s Note: the following is an excerpt from an interview conducted with CohesiveFT: CTO Chris Swan regarding the impact of the Internet of Things on the data center. Swan speaks on how consumerization of IT is influencing Big Data, the gap between Big Data hype and Big Data solutions, and just how we connect Big ...

There is a lot of pressure on open source to deliver a viable platform for the enterprise. As we learned at the recently concluded Hadoop Summit (#hadoopsummit), Hortonworks believes that Hadoop + YARN are going to be very big pieces to solving that puzzle. As Hortonworks Arun Murthy, Founder and Architect, said, “YARN allows you ...

NetApp is the last pure play “storage company” standing. Storage as we’ve known it for the past twenty years is over. When it comes to Big Data and cloud computing there isn’t a slam-dunk winner right now. NetApp, Cloudera, Hortonworks, Amazon, Google, EMC — wherever Wall Street places its bets by no means is a ...

SMBs to cloud storage…promise promise??? In the second annual global survey by Thales and Ponemon Institute, researchers examined small businesses’ attitude towards data protection and encryption in the cloud. Businesses, both big and small, are starting to use of cloud services for handling sensitive information in hoards. The verdict: the majority of small businesses transfer ...

Storage played party to a number of running themes this week. From Xbox getting a boost from a new data center in Iowa, to Dropbox trying to compete more with Box for the enterprise…this week in storage was a lot like the second act of Romeo and Juliet — you were hooked after Act One. ...

Human-readable storage is storing documents, photos and video copies of data that are, as you guessed it, able to be read by humans. An example we learned about at the 2013 Creative Storage Conference is DOTS (Digital Optical Technology System). DOTS technology was originally developed by Kodak.

Storage is a linchpin in the development and adoption of cloud services. As the Internet of Things continues to add "things" to the cloud, storage will continue to play a vital role as the backbone of cloud services. Seagate recently released the infographic below that highlights the cloud's growing storage footprint. Here are some stats.

I’m a marketer by trade. The reason that I’ve taken a liking to storage and data in general, is because I think that the CMO of tomorrow has to understand data two- to three iterations higher of a degree than CMOs of today. Pick your buzz word: Big Data, Data Revolution, Internet of Things, Industrial ...

In today's Profile series we hear from Scott Hebner, Vice President of Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure Marketing, IBM. Below is a recent interview with Scott, who gives us the inside scoop on his IBM's vision of the second phase of the Internet of Things.

The data center is changing, and with it, networking must evolve. Software-defined networking has emerged as a top trend in the industry, layering software atop the physical components of the data center to make it run more efficiently and more intelligently. And while SDN is a key contributor to the hyperscale developments expected to revolutionize ...