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Addition by Subtraction? IBM and Software Defined Storage Commoditization

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Info-Tech

At last year’s IBM Edge in Orlando, I said that IBM was looking to increase investment in storage while simultaneously aligning and focusing its then complex storage portfolio. Was I wrong? Well, I was at least half right. Instead of … Continue reading →

Posted in Hot Topics, Infrastructure, News & Analysis, What's New in Research | Tagged Edge2013, FlashSystems, ibm, OpenStack, software defined networking, Software Defined Storage, storage, Texas Memory Systems | Leave a comment

 

 

Reducing the Big Data Learning Curve

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Stewart Bond

Why is everyone making a big deal about big data? Lots of reasons! However, one of the most critical is that there is a general need for resources with big data skills who can work with emerging big data technologies. … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Analysis | Tagged analytics, big data, Data Scientist, hadoop, ibm, Informatica, Learning, MapReduce, sap | Leave a comment

 

 

Big Data Pushing Performance Innovations

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Stewart Bond

Informatica, one of the leading data integration vendors just announced a product directly aimed at their high speed data processing competitors: Ultra Messaging SMX (Shared Memory Acceleration). They claim to have broken the 100 millisecond latency barrier on multi-core commodity … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Analysis | Tagged #integration, Actian, big data, DataRush, ibm, Informatica, Messaging, MessagSight, VectorWise | Comments Off

 

 

Pure Patterns

Posted on May 9, 2013 by Stewart Bond

At IBM Impact 2013, I became more aware of IBM Pure Systems: what they are and how they work. I was surprised to learn that the implementation of functionality on PureSystems is patterns based. For example, there is an established … Continue reading →

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IBM Bets on MobileFirst

Posted on May 7, 2013 by Stewart Bond

The theme of this year’s IBM Impact 2013 Global Conference in Las Vegas, NV was “Business in Motion.” The theme was reinforced when Robert LeBlanc, IBM’s VP of Middleware Software, and Vijay Sankaran, Ford Motor Company’s Director of Application Development, … Continue reading →

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