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How Virtualization Cut Complexity & Time for SAP Apps in the Cloud
SAP principle architect Dominic Uliano took some time off to chat with Wikibon chief analyst Dave Vellante during EMC’s recent partner event, SAP Week, at its Executive Briefing Center in Hopkinton, MA. He discussed the impact of virtualization, cloud computing and other trends on traditional SAP deployments. Uliano starts the interview by noting that SAP’s ...
Memory Is Driving Innovation : Cisco’s Rajiv Thomas on Modern SAP Apps + Big Data
Rajiv Thomas, a Sales Consulting System Engineer at Cisco, gave an interview to Wikibon’s Dave Vellante during the SAP Week gathering at EMC’s EBC in Hopkinton, MA. Vellante starts by noting that Cisco, a dominant player in the networking market, is one of EMC’s biggest partners. The vendor is a major backer of VCE, a ...
Software’s Eating the World : Amazon’s Appetite Grows for Enterprise
Switch Communications EVP Jason Mendenhall provided his take on cloud computing, Amazon Web Services and Big Data in the most recent Peer Incite meeting, a monthly event that gives the Wikibon community an opportunity discuss the hottest topics in enterprise IT. ServicesAngle editor Bert Latamore included the main highlights from the debate in the latest ...
MapR Turns to LucidWorks for Smarter Big Data Search + Discovery
MapR is consciously growing its presence in the open-source community. A few weeks ago the company announced that it’s bundling the free version of its flagship product with Ubuntu, and this week it revealed a new partnership with LucidWorks. MapR integrated the firm’s open-source search software into its Hadoop distribution to provide customers with a ...
Three Ways Big Data has Changed Retail Analytics Forever
Forward-thinking retailers are tapping into Big Data to streamline operations and gain a competitive edge over rivals. Wikibon analyst Jeff Kelly discussed this trend in a recently published article. Kelly gives Wal-Mart credit for pioneering data-driven merchandising long before the term Big Data was even coined. The brick and mortar giant started analyzing internally-generated data in ...
Fusion-io Appoints Former HP Chief Scientist as New CTO
Flash behemoth Fusion-io has appointed Pankaj Mehra as its new worldwide chief technology officer and senior vice president. Mehra has been advising to Neil Carson, the vendor’s previous CTO and current technology chief of Asia Pacific, for the last few months. Mehra joins Fusion-io from Whodini, a Big Data analytics firm he co-founded in 2010. ...
Accel Fund Doubles Down on Big Data + Academia in IT Renaissance : Symposium Recap
The 17th annual Accel Partners Symposium was held yesterday at the Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center in Stanford University. The main theme was the Renaissance for enterprise IT, and theCUBE crew was there to bring you latest analysis from the executives and investors who attended the event (full video below). SiliconAngle founding CEO John Furrier and Wikibon ...
How EMC Took on Virtualization : Rewriting the Datacenter for New Technology
Wikibon co-founder and chief analyst Dave Vellante caught up with Chris Ritter, a principal systems engineer for EMC, during the EMC SAP Week meeting at the company’s EBC headquarters in Hopkinton, MA. The two discussed virtualization and Amazon Web Services, the other elephant in the room (full video below). Vellante starts the interview by asking ...
Top 5 Big Data Use Cases in the Enterprise
IBM, the number one Big Data vendor by revenue, enjoys talking with CIOs, and Eric Sall, the vice president of product marketing for the vendor’s Information Management business, is no different in that regard. Earlier this week on theCUBE, Sall popped in for a quick chat to discuss the Big Data use cases his company ...
Hot Data for NetApp : Smart Flash Cache from SanDisk Picks ONTAP
SanDisk announced this morning that FlashSoft has been certified to run on systems powered by NetApp Data ONTAP, the vendor’s homegrown storage operating system. FlashSoft is a software-based flash caching solution that eliminates I/O latency and enables users to rapidly process frequently-accessed information, also known as hot data. The solution is named after the original ...
