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 [...]
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 [...]
OMG! MWC could be a BFD, LOL!
Mar 5, 2013 by Leave a Comment
As Mobile World Congress (MWC) passes on its weary way in Barcelona, those responsible for technology in organizations should be looking on — even if it is with a slight look of bemusement — to see what the goings-on at the event may mean for them. Firstly, even though MWC remains big, its direct impact [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I feel the need… the need for speed!
Dec 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
More data. More devices. More users. And more demands. What’s a poor network/data-center manager to do? Well, to quote Maverick and Goose in the movie Top Gun, “I feel the need… the need for speed!” And it seems more speed is an increasingly popular choice, according to the latest market research. While both Fast and [...]
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 [...]
Big Data: Big Hype But Bigger Reality
Nov 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It seems that everybody wants to jump on the Big Data bandwagon, and while the term itself is subject to some confusion and not a little ridicule – i.e. the worst category name ever – it is quickly becoming a major concern for the IT world. Earlier this year Deloitte and Wikibon surveys predicted the 2012 [...]
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