Are you following the darkness? No, not the glam rockers — the regular night-time variety. It used to be that people talked of following the sun, by which they meant passing tasks from site to site around the world — California to Singapore to Ireland, say — so there was always someone awake in their [...]
Betting On A “Good Enough” Network?
Mar 28, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As I write this blog, I’m sitting 27 storeys above the Las Vegas Strip, looking down on the concrete jungle that makes up this surreal place. From my window, I can see several of the major casino hotels; several smaller ones hide in the depths. Around me are six out of ten of the world’s [...]
Mobile BI Takes Data Analysis on the Road
Mar 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Are you ready for a new “connected business reality”, with mobile networked usage becoming the norm for heavyweight information-analysis applications, such as business intelligence and its cousin Big Data? Mobile BI builds upon the timely convergence of better WAN and mobile connectivity, BYOD and more powerful mobile devices, and new data analysis tools. Its aim [...]
Big Data Has Huge Network Implications
Feb 14, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Not everyone has been swept up by the Big Data hoopla which only showed up a year ago in Gartner’s five-stage hype cycle. While it has rosy expectations for the future, the research firm had Big Data approaching its “peak of inflated expectations,” to be followed by trough of disillusionment, slope of enlightenment, and eventually [...]
Wide Area Network Bottlenecks Persist (Video)
Feb 11, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Whether it’s increasing data volumes, expanding data replication requirements, or the overall growth of traffic on the Internet, there is no denying that the wide area network (WAN) bottleneck is more of a problem today than ever before. In fact, the increase in traffic and data traversing enterprise networks is outpacing the level of innovation [...]
If You Store It, They Will Come
Jan 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Do you remember the movie, Field of Dreams? I’d like to put a twist on the famous line from the movie, “if you build it he will come.” This is for my friends who are responsible for their corporate networks and the movement of large amounts of data stored in various data centers around the [...]
13 Predictions For 2013
Jan 7, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Over the course of my thirty-plus years writing about IT I have been bombarded by pundits’ predictions of what’s coming next, and even –- abject apologies to IBM, AT&T, and Apple –- made my own share of fearless forecasts. While the following 13 items represent only a small fraction of the predictions that passed through [...]
AWS re:Invent — Big Data and HPC in the Cloud
Dec 7, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Right before Silver Peak released its own solution for Amazon Web Services on Dec 3rd, I had the chance to go to Las Vegas to attend AWS re:Invent — the first global partner and customer conference for AWS users. During the three day event there were many new product launches, customer success story talks, technical [...]
Silver Peak Velocity for Dell Compellent (Video)
Nov 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Want to achieve up to 30x faster offsite replication with Dell Compellent. This is a video demonstration of Silver Peak Velocity for Dell Compellent. Silver Peak Velocity is a replication acceleration solution designed specifically for the storage manager. In lab testing, the combined Silver Peak and Dell Compellent solution delivers 6x to 30x better replication [...]
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