James Kobielus

James Kobielus is @theCUBE and Wikibon lead analyst for AI, data, data science, deep learning and application development. Previously, Jim was IBM Corp.'s data science evangelist. He managed IBM's thought leadership, social and influencer marketing programs targeted at developers of big data analytics, machine learning and cognitive computing applications. Prior to his five-year stint at IBM, Jim was an analyst at Forrester Research, Current Analysis and the Burton Group. He is also a prolific blogger, a popular speaker and a familiar face from his many appearances as an expert on theCUBE and at industry events.

Latest from James Kobielus

At VMworld, VMware and Dell drive conversation on evolving virtualization from cloud to edge

INFRA By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

Cloud-based information technology virtualization was the focus of VMworld 2018 this week in Las Vegas, not to mention the talk of the entire conference. As the conference draws toward a close on Thursday, Wikibon looks back at the highlights from the dozens …

On VMworld day two, VMware and Dell turn virtualization into tangible opportunities in edge computing

INFRA By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

Virtualization may feel like an abstract technological construct, but it’s coming closer to everything that touches our lives. This idea of virtual computing is transforming our organizations and shaping the edge, embedded, mobile and other tangible devices at the heart of our …

On VMworld day one, VMware goes deep on multicloud virtualization

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

Agility is the essence of the software-defined data center. As the longtime pacesetter in this market, VMware Inc. has built an agile solution portfolio that lets customers deploy virtual machines, containers and other virtualization technologies into a wide range of private, public, …

Looking ahead to VMworld: Virtualization drives clouds to the edge

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

Platform and application virtualization are rapidly coming to the edge of the cloud. Paving the way are the multicore processors at the heart of devices for the most demanding “internet of things,” mobile and embedded applications. As virtualization takes hold at the …

As VMworld nears, virtualization disrupts the cloud application ecosystem

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

Platform virtualization has traditionally involved abstracting application access to hardware resources, such as compute power, storage drives, random-access memory and I/O bandwidth. The next evolutionary step is to move up the stack, virtualizing application access to software resources, especially runtime engines, algorithm …

Ahead of VMworld, virtualization confronts the cloud

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

Virtualization is an inexorable process under which applications become progressively more abstracted and independent from the underlying platforms on which their services execute. It’s the foundation for software-defined data centers that span hybrid multiclouds. It enables flexible partitioning, aggregation and composition of …

How ‘AIOps’ is optimizing cloud computing up and down the stack

AI By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence workloads are consuming ever greater shares of information technology infrastructure resources. AI is also taking up residence as an embedded component for managing, monitoring, scaling, securing and controlling IT infrastructure. Increasingly, this emerging IT management paradigm goes by the name …

Analysis: Google puts Kubernetes at the center of its cloud application push

CLOUD By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

Google LLC has begun to pick up steam in the cloud wars, though it still lags considerably behind Amazon Web Services Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s Azure in market share in the public cloud. One approach for gaining traction among enterprise cloud users …

Hadoop’s star dims in the era of cloud object data storage and stream computing

BIG DATA By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

One of the most noteworthy findings from Wikibon’s annual update to our big data market forecast was how seldom Hadoop was mentioned in vendors’ roadmaps. I wouldn’t say that Hadoop — open-source software for storing data and running applications on large hardware …

With new products, MongoDB drives NoSQL database more deeply into the enterprise

BIG DATA By JAMES KOBIELUS8 YEARS AGO

MongoDB has long been known as a niche player in the database wars. It’s one of the leading providers in the NoSQL segment of the database market, which emerged to handle data volumes in a scale-out architectures that traditional relational DBMSs struggled to …

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On VMworld day two, VMware and Dell turn virtualization into tangible opportunities in edge computing

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