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THE SILICONANGLE INTERVIEW
As Oracle’s pioneering database machine Exadata turns 10, an exclusive look ahead
In the winter of 1984, four executives from California, wearing suits and ties, presented to a group of market analysts in a smoke-filled boardroom in Framingham, Massachusetts. From a startup called Teradata Corp., the executives were unveiling under a nondisclosure agreement a new “Database Computer” that connected to the backend of an IBM Corp. mainframe ...
ANALYSIS
As UiPath nets big funding, exploring the impact of robotic process automation
The forerunners of robotic process automation have been around for well over a decade in various forms such as Lean, Six Sigma and business process automation. But the leading companies in these fields didn’t really catch the attention of most observers. The same narrative is not being written for RPA — quite the opposite, in ...
ANALYSIS
After limping through chapter one of cloud computing, IBM aims to own chapter two
In 2013, IBM Corp. got a wakeup call when it lost an important cloud computing deal at the Central Intelligence Agency to Amazon Web Services Inc. IBM protested the contract, exposing previously confidential details. In a high-profile decision, Judge Thomas Wheeler ruled against IBM despite the apparent higher bid submitted by AWS. The bottom line: ...
ANALYSIS
IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat is a pivot to growth, but many questions remain
IBM Corp.’s acquisition of Red Hat Inc. is a blockbuster designed to accelerate the company’s lagging sales. Here’s a first take on what it means for IBM, Red Hat, the ecosystem and customers. Despite strong IT spending, there were storm clouds on the horizon for both IBM and Red Hat: IBM’s strategy generally and its ...
Veritas: the best-kept secret everyone has heard of
Often on theCUBE we have the pleasure of hosting guests who are so knowledgeable that you just want to go back and watch the videos over again. Recently, at the Veritas Vision event in Las Vegas, we had a chance to sit down with just such an individual: Bill Coleman, chief executive of Veritas. Coleman is ...
The 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 my business.” When we analyze the market for emerging cloud models we use Figure 3 from our True Private Cloud ...
CIOs: 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 the latest trend, we suggest three things that chief information officers should consider before jumping into the hype. For background and summary, let’s review the operations management problems IT ...
Serverless 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 and topics regarding digital business transformation and technology markets. We look at things from the standpoints of business, the Internet of Things, big data, application, cloud ...
Breaking 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 it a hundred times: “The hyperscale guys don’t use traditional disk arrays.” Giants such as Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. use ...
Oracle’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, Salesforce, ServiceNow, IBM, Oracle, SAP and a host of others contenders. The benefits to organizations are increased IT economic flexibility and reduced infrastructure constraints. In a ...
