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Musings from Symantec's 2013 Analyst Event
by IDC analysts
At the Symantec 2013 WWIAC (World-wide Industry Analyst Conference for those who are guessing) there was a feeling of freshness in the air - a feeling of "we can do this right this time". I believe as Symantec 4.0 takes...
April 18, 2013 11:35 AM Read Full Post
OpenStack Summit: Day one round up
Cutting through the hype
by IDC analysts
IDC Storage has been following and tracking the OpenStack movement for some time now. OpenStack has received significant press lately and it seems every major IT company is circling the preverbal wagon around OpenStack. What's reality vs. hype? Let's dive-in...
April 16, 2013 3:20 PM Read Full Post
How to become a smarter buyer of cloud services
Get your head round Limits of Liability as well as SLAs
by IDC analysts
Cloud seems to promise transparency in cost, service effectiveness, and support, but after years of interviewing buyers - from both IT and line of business roles - of software and services, I've seen firsthand how complicated and confusing it can...
April 4, 2013 1:55 PM Read Full Post
Is the Semantic Web and linked data ready for primetime?
You can't manage the relationships between people, places, events and things without it
by IDC analysts
We have just published a report about a new tool that semi-automatically generates taxonomies by using text analytics and linked data from the Semantic Web. Pingar, a company headquartered in New Zealand, has developed a technology that allows the creation...
March 27, 2013 10:54 AM Read Full Post
Impact of the SQL-Hadoop marriage on infrastructure
What does it take to analyse all structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data on a single platform?
by IDC analysts
With Hadapt, Cloudera, Greenplum and others offering SQL overlays for Hadoop, the unification of SQL and Hadoop is here and is here to stay. Regardless of what the naysayers say, the benefits of this marriage are clear - it enables...
March 16, 2013 6:17 AM Read Full Post
The Salesforce.com platform is powering ISV growth
Veeva Systems thinks IPO and Kenandy grows from company launch to 7-figure deals in 18 months
by IDC analysts
Salesforce.com's Force.com PaaS solution is being used by ISVs to very quickly build out products and grow their business. Also the switch from flat rate pricing to a revenue share model enables ISVs to build enterprise offerings that they...
March 14, 2013 4:20 PM Read Full Post
NetApp announces all flash storage strategy
Vision of the future as important as the new EF540 and FlashRay products
by IDC analysts
NetApp has had a long history with flash starting with Flash Cache (formerly PAM cards) to Flash Pools and even including flash on the host with Flash Accel. It's an exciting day for NetApp to complete the flash portfolio with...
February 22, 2013 11:25 AM Read Full Post
Compustorage clusters: A new model for converged infrastructure
Understand the strengths and limitations of the new convergence
by IDC analysts
IDC has been studying the converged infrastructure market for a while now and expects it to grow as businesses steadily demand simplification of their IT environments as a key focus area when making newer infrastructure acquisitions. A new breed of...
February 21, 2013 12:48 PM Read Full Post
Will FIDO find friends?
New security alliance is backed by PayPal, Lenovo, Nok Nok Labs, Validity, Agnitio and Infineon
by IDC analysts
The newly created FIDO (Fast IDentity Online) Alliance is promoting a standardised, global protocol and the necessary interfaces to allow organisations to support authentication solutions appropriate to the level of risk involved. The FIDO protocol will allow the interaction of...
February 19, 2013 1:08 PM Read Full Post
Sync-n-share services: The next big play for storage suppliers?
Would it help IT departments?
by IDC analysts
Businesses everywhere are panicking. Their users have gone roughshod with public sync-n-share services like Dropbox, Sugarsync etc. They do not have an alternative to give to their users. Storage suppliers are coming to the rescue. The question is - has...
February 4, 2013 12:28 PM Read Full Post
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