Broadcasting EMC World 2012 and the Next Generation of Business Technology Careers

Posted by Stuart Miniman in Wikibon on May 18, 2012


#TheCubeWhile EMC is still best known for its leadership in the storage marketplace, it long ago expanded its portfolio and brand. The acquisition of VMware and subsequent deep integration into virtualization environments accelerated EMC’s growth as part of the biggest trend of the last decade. EMC CEO Joe Tucci calls EMC “the smallest of the big” and Wikibon’s Dave Vellante has predicted EMC/VMware will be the next $100B market cap company in enterprise tech.

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Unhackable Encryption

Posted by Wikibon in Security on May 17, 2012


It’s not news that quantum mechanics can be used to send secret messages without concern of them being intercepted.  For years, physicists have been using this technology to do so.  However, a true quantum link has only recently been successful.  Originally, the messages were sent using quantum mechanics, but then had to be decoded at each node in order to continue the message.  Since the nodes weren’t quantum mechanical, this left the information vulnerable to hacking at each node.  A quantum link means the message never has to be decoded.  By combining many quantum links, a true quantum network could be created.  This would mean a completely unhackable telecommunications network.

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Real Time Research, Hot IT Trends: #theCUBE 2012 Summer Tour

Posted by Wikibon in Wikibon on May 14, 2012


Wikibon research is based upon open source sharing amongst peers and SiliconANGLE’s live video broadcasts with theCUBE are a great enabler of this mission. The upcoming schedule of shows highlight the biggest megatrends of IT including cloud computing, big data, converged infrastructure and more. Wikibon will share its latest research findings and go in-depth with IT practitioners on-air. Come join the Wikibon community on-site or streaming in the comfort of your home or office. All of the details for the summer tour:

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The Finest Shade of Blue: #theCUBE @ SAPPHIRE 2012

Posted by Jeff Kelly in Big Data, CIO Perspectives, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Applications, ServicesAngle, Wikibon on May 11, 2012


SAPPHIRE, SAP’s annual mega-show, is just days away. Taking place next week (May 14-16) in Orlando, expectations are high for the German software maker and (now) database player.

At last year’s show, much of the focus was on HANA, SAP’s in-memory database, which promises end-users support for lightening fast analytics against large volumes of data. As I wrote then, SAP is betting the house on HANA, with plans to migrate its entire software and application portfolio onto the new database, as well as rolling out new, HANA-optimized analytic applications. SAP also declared last year that it intended to reach #2 in the database market by 2015.

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Facebook’s New Green Data Center

Posted by Wikibon in Cloud Computing on May 9, 2012


With more than 845 million users and counting, Facebook generates a lot of Big Data.  Managing it all takes a lot of space and a lot of energy.  After 16 months, Facebook’s new data center is up and running.  It only took 2,000 people, and 1.2 million hours, to get the server farms online.  Facebook now has two data centers in the United States.  The first is located in Prineville, Oregon; the new one is in Forest City, North Carolina.

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Metrics, ROI and TCO are great, but focus on what matters: A lesson learned from Southwest

Posted by Scott Lowe in CIO Perspectives on May 9, 2012


We live in a metrics-obsessed world.  We find meaning in numbers.  How many of you check the stock market valuations once a day?  How many of you have a dashboard somewhere that shows you the stock market tickers throughout the day?  How many of you work in organizations that have set organizational benchmarks that consist of numbers?

You’re not alone.  As humans, we yearn to find meaning in everything we do, so we assign value to our own activities and the activities in which we participate.  Those quarterly goals are just one instantiation of this fact, but there are certainly countless others that one could point to as evidence of this need.

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HP Gen8 server and Intel E5: A partnership demonstrating new ways to simplify IT

Posted by Scott Lowe in CIO Perspectives, Infrastructure 2.0 on May 7, 2012


I’ve been writing about how important it is for CIOs and other IT leaders to simplify their entire infrastructure environment in order to reduce the amount of care and feeding that goes into infrastructure in favor of activities that provide a direct bottom line benefit.  This week, I’m attending an event at HP’s Houston offices where a group of people are being pitched on HP’s latest generation of servers powered by Intel’s E5 processor line.

HP is putting to market products that help strapped IT departments do more with less and that will allow CIOs to focus more of their team’s efforts squarely on business problems.

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VDI still on the rise

Posted by jcasaretto in CIO Perspectives, Infrastructure 2.0, Security, Virtualization on May 3, 2012


Virtual Desktop Infrastructure or VDI has long been kind of the lesser flashy sidekick to server virtualization and the cloud.  We often hear so much about virtualization, and especially the cloud, because they are flashy, they do have that element of consumerization of IT.  VDI however has been making consistent increased presence in the enterprise for a number of years now.  For some organizations, it can be complicated to ingest the kind of changes that VDI introduces and the advantages it brings about.  VDI products typically build on virtualization platforms, and that is one sure advantage.  It also delivers improvements and efficiencies to the enterprise environment that is changing the ways a lot of environments are conducting business. 

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Data quality is too important to ignore

Posted by Scott Lowe in Big Data, CIO Perspectives, Wikibon on May 1, 2012


I spend a lot of my time working with colleges and small businesses helping them find more and better ways to leverage their technology and information assets.  And, to be sure, many organizations are sitting on goldmines when it comes to the data that they have at their disposal.

With good data, really good things can happen:

  • The organization can leverage their data goldmine to improve sales, improve customer satisfaction and reduce the amount of time that employees have to spend on manual processes.
  • Processes can be much more easily automated and placed into workflows based on individual data elements
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Virtualize Everything – or don’t

Posted by jcasaretto in CIO Perspectives, Cloud Computing, Virtualization on May 1, 2012


There is no doubt that virtualization is transforming data centers across the world.  More and more organizations are now solidly in line on a virtualization track and on the way somewhere along the virtualization spectrum from zero virtualized guest systems to 100% virtualization.   Organizations no doubt enjoy the fiscal and operational benefits of migrating from existing physical to virtual systems in their data centers, but there are many things to consider before jumping right in to doing that.

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