Nasuni ‘Pivot’ Underscores a Failed Cloud Services Model
I was just reading an email blast from Jason Calcanis entitled “How Much Money Should a Startup Have in the Bank? Calcanis runs Mahalo, a startup that was focused on human powered search until it...
View ArticleTen Realities for IT Service Organizations
There are several infrastructure-related trends we’re watching here at Wikibon that will have direct impacts on IT organizations and service delivery over the next five years. Specifically: #1 The...
View ArticleGetting Pumped for Oracle OpenWorld 2011
I’m in San Francisco prepping for the Cube’s second annual broadcast at Oracle OpenWorld. While the world is kind of dissing Ellison’s Sunday keynote, it’s important to remember that Larry usually...
View ArticleWikibon Survey Shows 2012 Really is the Year of Cloud
We’re live at EMC World with #theCube and I’ve been squinting through the recent Wikibon IT Transformation Survey results. Data is still trickling in but we had over 200 Wikibon members take the survey...
View ArticleBreaking Analysis: NetApp Teams with Fusion-io to Compress Time to Market but...
NetApp today announced a deal with Fusion-io. Industry news coverage has called this announcement a “mystery,” citing excerpts from the press release as follows: “… working closely with storage...
View ArticleBreaking Analysis: EMC Lenovo Deal Expands TAM and Sheds Slow Growth Asset
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend” Chinese (and Arabic) proverb EMC’s announcement that it struck an OEM deal with Lenovo, and will be forming a JV with the Chinese PC maker, signals the next chapter...
View ArticleBreaking Analysis: Amazon’s Glacier is the Titanic of Deep Archives for...
Beware the Pitfalls of the Glacial Mass[/caption] Amazon’s Glacier is a new service for infrequently accessed data. It is very inexpensive to load data into Glacier and park it there indefinitely but...
View ArticleBreaking Analysis: Michael Capellas to Step Down as Chairman of VCE
At EMC’s fall analyst event, Howard Elias, President and COO of EMC’s Global Services organization, quietly dropped a nugget that Michael Capellas was stepping down as the head of the VCE coalition....
View ArticleInvestors Love Amazon AWS – Should CIOs?
Investors have been in love with Amazon this past year, and why not? The company’s market cap has soared to over $120B since it bottomed in 2009 at just over $20B, delivering very attractive returns....
View ArticleThe GE Pivotal Announcement: Rewriting the Rules of Big Data and Internet of...
GE, the world’s leader in industrial technology and solutions, today plowed $105M into Pivotal, the EMC/VMware spinout. You can read John Furrier’s post for the details of the deal but this in my view...
View Article#BigDataSV CrowdChat: Follow the Money
We had an excellent CrowdChat today hosted by @jeffreyfkelly, sponsored by EMC Corporation. It was a preview to our event next week in San Jose that coincides with Strataconf, Hadoopworld and...
View ArticleIBM InterConnect Conference Live Stream #IBMInterConnect
Watch the General Sessions and Keynote presentations from IBM InterConnect, live from the MGM and Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Click here to watch the live sessions on the Main Tent Channel...
View ArticleSiliconANGLE Media welcomes Peter Burris to the team
It’s been over six years since John Furrier and I first sat down in Palo Alto where we shared a vision for forming and funding a new business model in media. Since then we’ve merged the SiliconANGLE...
View ArticleBreaking Analysis: Oracle’s $9B+ acquisition of NetSuite underscores software...
Oracle Corp. continued its march to the cloud this week with a $9.3 billion acquisition of NetSuite, Inc. Mainstream media focused most of its coverage on the conflict of interest due to Larry...
View ArticleBreaking analysis: With upgrade, Infinidat challenges conventional wisdom in...
When I first heard about Infinidat I put it in the category of FM — “Effing Magic.” At the time, Wikibon analyst David Floyer was shaping the industry’s first prediction of the so-called All-Flash...
View ArticleOracle’s bandwidth beast: three journeys to the cloud
The battle for the public cloud is intensifying. Choices made by practitioners in the next year will have long-term business consequences. The entrants are well known: AWS, Microsoft, Google,...
View ArticleBreaking up is hard to do: busting the handcuffs of traditional data storage
Premise The largest and most successful Web companies in the world have proven a new model for managing and scaling a combined architecture of compute and storage. If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard...
View ArticleServerless computing: It’s all about functional stateless microservices
In between meeting with customers, crowdchatting with our communities and hosting theCUBE, the research team at Wikibon, owned by the same company as SiliconANGLE, finds time to meet and discuss trends...
View ArticleCIOs: Don’t rush to AI to solve IT operations management problems
At Friday’s Wikibon Weekly Research Meeting, we discussed applying artificial intelligence and machine learning at the discipline of information technology operations management. But before jumping on...
View ArticleThe API economy: DevOps, cloud and infrastructure as code
We’re entering the next wave of cloud. Most chief information officers tell Wikibon: “I can’t simply reshape my business and stuff it into the cloud, rather I need to bring the cloud operating model to...
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