Dave Vellante
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Breaking analysis: With upgrade, Infinidat challenges conventional wisdom in flash
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 Datacenter. Flash prices were falling faster than those of …
Breaking Analysis: Oracle’s $9B+ acquisition of NetSuite underscores software MegaTrends
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 Ellison’s large holdings in both companies, which is noteworthy, but there’s much …