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QLogic, the leader in fibre channel host bust adapters and a provider of Ethernet adapters, envisions creating a virtual SAN to make server-based SSDs into a shared cache available across the data center in its Mt. Rainier Project, says Wikibon Analyst Stuart …
Exclusive Interview: Nicira Martin Casado Presents Vision for Changing IT
Ed note: At the end of VMworld 2012 SiliconAngle CEO John Furrier and Wikibon Networking Analyst Stuart Miniman had an exclusive interview with Nicira Co-Founder and CTO Martin Casado in the SiliconAngle Cube. A pioneer in developing the key technologies in virtual networking, …
Apache Drill to Provide SQL-Like Fast Answers to Specific Questions from Hadoop Databases
In what he terms “yet another example of the remarkable innovation occurring in the open source Big Data Community,” Wikibon Big Data Analyst Jeff Kelly writes that a small group of committers is developing an open source SQL-like query tool for Hadoop …
Flash Market Hot, Users Confused, Scott Lowe Finds
The flash market is hot, writes Wikibon’s Scott Lowe in his latest report from VMworld 2012. Users, however, by and large do not understand the differences among the three major vendor classes (flash-on-server, hybrid flash/disk, and pure flash arrays) and see all …
SDN Not Revolutionary, Part of an Evolution Going back to 1980s and ATM says Cisco’s Delfino
Despite the hype, software-defined networking (SDN) is not really that new, says Dom Delfino, senior director at network giant Cisco Systems. In fact, the basic concepts go back to the 1980s or earlier and TDM (time-division networking), ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), and …
Pervasive’s DataRush Unlocks High Utilization for Hadoop
For all its advantages in Big Data research, Hadoop has one major drawback, it struggles to achieve 20% server utilization, writes Jeff Kelly in his latest Wikibon Peer Incite, “Improving Hardware Efficiency Important to Overall Hadoop ROI”. This makes large, production Hadoop …
Decoupling the Control Plane from Storage Key to Data Infrastructure
“The Software-Defined Data Center is partly about where value moves, mostly about where policy is controlled, but it’s also about decoupling control planes from infrastructure,” says EMC SVP Chad Sakac. “One thing that is not right in storage land is the control …
3PAR Driving HP into the Data Infrastructure Era, Says David Scott
3PAR has leveraged HP’s sales channel to grow 60%+ per quarter since its acquisition says HP SVP and General Manager of Storage and former 3PAR CEO David Scott on SiliconAngle.tv. And the reverse is also true – 3PAR is becoming a central …
Three VMworld Vendors Offer Simplicity for IT
Simplicity may be on the verge of appearing in at least some IT environments, writes Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in his second report from the floor of VMworld 2012, “Terminator: The Rise of the (Simple) Machines”. And while simple solutions are always …
VMworld Announcements Evolutionary, Not Revolutionary
The VMworld Keynote announcements are evolutionary rather than revolutionary, but that’s okay says Wikibon Analyst Scott Lowe in his Professional Alert on the first-day announcements at VMworld 2012. The biggest news, he says, is the elimination of vRAM, which he characterized as …