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ANALYSIS
In the digital transformation era, multicloud data protection turns smoking hot
This analysis is from Wikibon, SiliconANGLE Media Inc.’s market research firm. There’s much more analysis and research at Wikibon.com. Premise. Enterprises moving to the cloud must sustain necessary information technology capabilities. At the same time, digital business transformation increases the importance of some IT capabilities. Data protection, in particular, is an IT capability that becomes ...
SPECIAL REPORT: THE CLOUD COMES OF AGE
The journey to multicloud must include high-value legacy apps
Enterprises have embarked on a journey to cloud computing and, more than that, to multiple clouds. But how can they make sure their existing mission-critical applications don’t get left behind? Wikibon conducted an Action Item digital community event Nov. 1 to discuss the journey to multicloud. In a digital community event, we gather practitioners to ...
ANALYSIS
After IBM buys Red Hat, will you trust Big Purple?
Following IBM Corp.’s surprise acquisition of Red Hat Inc. announced Sunday, is “Big Purple” in your future? Well, that depends on what you think are the answers to these questions: By some estimates, the volume of data increases 10 times every two years. How fast is the volume of software code – which creates all ...
ANALYSIS
IBM storage takes another step into multicloud
In recent years, IBM Corp. has become the James Brown of the storage industry: supertalented and incredibly hardworking, with a loyal, if targeted, following. But the papa of the storage industry has a brand new bag, and it’s leading to an important resurgence in IBM’s storage fortunes. What’s the new bag? Multicloud. Why can IBM ...
ANALYSIS
Artificial agency: the ‘action’ side of artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is all the rage. Today, computing can perform feats that appear similar to stuff humans might do, if we were smarter –that is, if we had more computing power. But just because a computing system can do something, should it? What actions do we want computers performing on our behalf? We can treat ...
SPONSORED POST
Oracle helps users curate their way through the growing open-source cloud stack
This post is sponsored by Oracle Corp. The mission of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation is to build sustainable ecosystems and foster communities around a set of high-quality open-source projects that orchestrate containers as part of a microservices architecture. The deepening CNCF cloud-native stack As the centerpiece of CNCF’s efforts, Kubernetes has been implemented by ...
Google Cloud Next 2018 trip report: The sleeping giant stirs
Premise: Google LLC has been the sleeping giant of the enterprise cloud market. Users and competitors wondered if and when it would wake up. At Google Cloud Next 2018, we saw the first impressive signs that the giant is stirring. Put 25,000 attendees and 3,000 Google engineers in one place for three days and a ...
CLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
What Google Cloud needs to show enterprises at Next
Years ago, a friend attending medical school decided to forego being a clinical physician. His reason? “Medicine would be great if it weren’t for the patients,” he told me. Many of today’s technology companies – especially cloud-based outfits – seem to possess a similar concern. Based on their go-to market strategies, one could easily infer ...
IBM Think 2018 trip report: Big Blue makes the data leap
For years, IBM Corp. has described a “smarter planet” and the role that technology could play in solving big problems. At its recent flagship conference IBM Think 2018, the company initiated an effort to shift the conversation to “Let’s put smart to work.” It’s the right call-to-action for customers in the digital business era. But ...
BIG DATA SPECIAL REPORT
Wikibon trip report from Big Data Silicon Valley: Big data lives!
Here’s what my analyst colleague Neil Raden said to me at our recent annual Big Data Silicon Valley community gathering in San Jose: “I spent the day on the floor of Strata Data Conference, and I heard the term ‘big data’ maybe three times.” What’s going on? Have so many failed so often at big ...