Paul Maritz (Photo credit: Dell's Official Flickr Page) On March 15, EMC EMC +3.1%’s Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci announced the division of EMC into three groups: EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II), EMCVMware VMW +1.64%, and EMC Pivotal. In the grand scheme of all things...
Read More »It is now clear that the Retail segment is investing in Big Data analytics sources and processes. The often cited reason is that retailers across the board are now seeing Amazon as a formidable competitor. The result is a desire...
Read More »GigaOM’s annual Structure Data event, held typically during March in New York City, is billed as a Big Data analytics event. But I’m a self-confessed storage bigot and I saw this latest edition as a storage event. Cloud computing aficionados likely saw...
Read More »I noted in a previous blog post that Hadoop needed a number of enhancements to make it more acceptable to enterprise users. One of them was simplicity. Indeed, even some of the purveyors of Hadoop distributions privately admit that Hadoop,...
Read More »Eric Savitz, Forbes San Francisco bureau chief posted a very informative piece on the proposed Dell LBO that had been rumored for weeks and finally announced yesterday. The links he provides to documents Dell submitted to the SEC as part of its 8K filing are particularly...
Read More »This week’s Facebook-initiated Open Compute Summit has been depicted by TechCrunch blogger Alex Williams as an event that benefits Facebook first and foremost as it builds out its data source business model. His well-written post basically says that significant revenue growth for Facebook can come...
Read More »As CES kicks off, someone who follows the progress of Hadoop could well wonder where Hadoop fits—as an enabler of consumer-focused apps, an enhancer of enterprise business intelligence, or both. It is now clear that Hadoop has enabled the growth...
Read More »We recently queried some large enterprise IT storage architects about planned storage acquisitions in the next 12 months. The answer from one storage architect of a top-five financial institution was “ZERO, Nada, None. The CIO has told us there will...
Read More »Eight years ago, a friend and I were researching a book we would later call "Inescapable Data - Harnessing the Power of Convergence." We were after an understanding of what kinds of new information one could produce by blending data...
Read More »My wife works for our local school department as an IT support specialist assigned to the town's largest elementary school. Like many U.S. elementary schools, kids and teachers use a variety of personal computing devices, including PCs, notebooks, and now...
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