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Storage Analytics meets Tufte

Storage Analytics meets TufteSplunkAnalytics reminds me of Splunk (http://www.splunk.com/).Splunk is an excellent tool to visualize what's happening in your Datacenter.Splunk is like "grep on steroids". You can suck all your log files and other unstructured data in and easily do large scale analysis' using its visualization features.Evidence for a long...

Tags: Splunk, Storage Analytics, Tufte, storage, Paul

Discussion threads 2008-11-15

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HP's Hurd: Cloud computing has its limits (especially when you face 1,000 attacks a day)

HP CEO Mark Hurd is big on cloud computing, but acknowledges its limits. For instance, HP "wouldn't put anything material in nature outside the firewall." The message: The cloud has its place, but there's a vast difference between private and public computing. [caption id="attachment_26254" align="alignright" width="250" caption="Credit:...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Mark Hurd, Attack, Cloud Computing, Strategy, Virtualization, Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-10-20

Two Views of the Software Market

A Bridge Too Far? In a blogger briefing this week at SAP’s TechEd, SAP CTO, Vishal Sikka, drew a chart of the application software market and what new areas of technology are of interest to the firm. I’ve tried to reproduce his freehand drawing into the following...

Tags: ERP, Vishal Sikka, S-curve, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Brian Sommer

Blog posts 2009-10-16

News to know: Intel; Microsoft; Cisco; Google Voice; Postini; Nokia

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Larry Dignan: Intel: Solid third quarter; Sees brighter prospects ahead Sam Diaz: Analysts interested in Intel's 2010, not just...

Tags: Google Inc., Postini Corp., Larry Dignan, Nokia Corp., Voice, Camcorder, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Sam Diaz, Intel Corp., Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows, 3G, Data Centers, Wiki, Operating Systems, Software, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Online Communications

Blog posts 2009-10-14

EMC Corporation Delivers Reports in Minutes With Unified Data Warehouse and Analytics Tools

EMC Corporation wanted to consolidate disparate data sources to reduce total cost of ownership, improve efficiency, and sharpen decision making and provide diverse users with insight into data on various topics, from sales metrics and customer information to Human Resources HR and financial figures. The challenge was to grow market...

Tags: Data Warehouse, Oracle Corp., Financial, Analytics, EMC Corp., Storage, Business Intelligence, Financial Planning, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Finance

Case studies 2009-09-01

Information management targets e-discovery, compliance, legal risks while delivering long-term BI and governance benefits

Potentially massive savings can be had from thwarting legal discovery fulfillment problems in advance by governing and managing information. Yet these same management lifecycle approaches bring long-term payoffs through better analytics, and regulatory compliance, while reducing the cost of data storage and archiving. by Dana Gardner

Tags: Information Management, Compliance, Benefit, Business Intelligence, Regulatory Compliance, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Strategy, Content Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Human Resources, Policies And Procedures, Marketing, Management, Finance, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-08-07

HP Data Retention Guardian Online (HP DRAGON) Overview

HP DRAGON partners with some of the leading organizations in the intelligence support systems marketplace to enable HP customers to receive an excellent solution that meets their needs. HP DRAGON technology partners provide such technology and solution capabilities as relational database, deep packet inspection, and grid storage. HP DRAGON solution...

Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management

White papers 2009-08-01

Salesforce.com: rethinking the database

While attending Fortune's Brainstorm event, several of us took the opportunity to sit down with Parker Harris, Salesforce.com co-founder and EVP technology. To say it was our first outing as Irregulars with the company, Parker was remarkably open and congenial, often straying into territory that would otherwise drive hyper controlling...

Tags: Salesforce.com Inc., Zoho, Database, Sales Force Management, Sales, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-07-28

IBM launches business analytics system

IBM on Tuesday unveiled a business analytics system---a bundle of preconfigured and optimized hardware and software---designed to cut deployment time. The system is designed to complement and enhance IBM's existing business analytics service. The system will also have optional business intelligence and data mining software. The IBM...

Tags: Analytics, Business Analytics, IBM Corp., Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-28

SDI Delivers Business Intelligence: Scalable Server Architecture Accommodates Processing Growth and Ensures High-Quality Service

The source to which the world's top pharmaceutical and healthcare companies turn for complex data analytics and professional services, SDI has long relied on technology to help it compile, process, and transform raw data into actionable, client-specific information. It needed to update an existing server infrastructure to accommodate additional data...

Tags: Unisys Corp., Data-processing, Server, SDI, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Marketing, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management

Case studies 2009-07-01

RNA Networks launches RNAcache

RNA Networks is launching RNAcache, a product that lives along the border of processing virtualization, network virtualization and storage virtualization by offering the capability to use server memory on many systems as a shared network resource. RNA Networks is one a number of suppliers that are melding high performance computing,...

Tags: RNA, Data Center, Virtualization, RNA Networks, RNACACHE RNA Network, Biotechnology, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-06-23

Seagate uses social media to 'humanize' storage devices

It was about two years ago that storage device company Seagate realized it had to get into the social media game. The company's initial strategy was to listen, build community and learn. So, the communications team set up a presence on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, and so on, and strapped...

Tags: Storage Device, Storage, Social Media, Twitter, Seagate Technology LLC, Harris, Q., Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-06-16

Teradata: Fending off rivals with focus on data warehousing

Data warehouse player Teradata has been increasingly mentioned by the likes of Oracle and HP so much so that you have to wonder what all the hubbub is about.  Teradata is a company that has come up frequently through my various case studies in a past life....

Tags: Data Warehouse, Teradata, Oracle Corp., Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-27

Flash disk drives are a hit with enterprise customers, says Sun

Today, Sun announced hundreds of wins across a range of industries for its eco-friendly Sun Storage 7000 series since it was introduced 5 months ago. According to Sun, over 17 petabytes of total space has been purchased, making it "the fastest ramping new product in Sun's storage portfolio ever". Sun...

Tags: Disk, Disk Drive, Analytics, Sun Microsystems Inc., ZFS, Storage, Hardware, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2009-05-05

HP Software: Talking strategy; Looking to grow; Gunning for Teradata

Hewlett-Packard's software unit is tiny relative to the company's overall revenue, but it is being counted on to fuel future growth. The plan: Expand into the data warehouse market occupied by the likes of Teradata, focus on performance and project management and continue to automate data centers.  ...

Tags: Software, Strategy, Teradata, Data Center, Hewlett-Packard Co., Software Unit, Data Centers, Tools & Techniques, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, and the ISV

This white paper provides an entry-point discussion of the Microsoft Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing landscape and product adoption roadmap. The paper includes architecture discussion points around the logical business tiers from storage to higher-level analytics, as well as thirteen real-world scenarios of ISV adoption stories along with value points.

Tags: Data Warehouse, ISV, Microsoft Corp., Business Intelligence, Pricing, Tools & Techniques, Databases, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Marketing, Management, Hardware

White papers 2009-05-01

IBM's earnings better than expected on software, services; Hardware revenue thumped

IBM on Monday reported net income of $2.3 billion, or $1.70 a share, on revenue of $21.7 billion, down 11 percent from a year ago largely due to currency fluctuations. The upshot: Cost cutting helped IBM hurdle Wall Street estimates despite lighter than expected revenue.  Wall Street...

Tags: Software, Revenue, Earnings, Hardware, IBM Corp., Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-20

News to know: Intel, Skype IPO, Microsoft netbooks, EMC

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily.  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Sam Diaz: Intel: The bottom is in for PC demand Larry Dignan: eBay: We're spinning Skype off in an...

Tags: Larry Dignan, Skype Technologies S.A., Microsoft Corp., EMC Corp., Sam Diaz, Netbook, Intel Corp., Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, IPO, Web 2.0, Hardware, Financial Services, Internet

Blog posts 2009-04-15

Google's April Fools roundup!

Like ever year, Google took part in another round of entertaining April Fools hoaxes. No real products were launched this year like what happened several years ago when Gmail was launched. At that time, people thought it was a hoax since it was invite-only, and it sounded way...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Picasa, E-mail, Channel Management, E-mail Providers, Corporate Communications, Cloud Computing, Online Communications, Marketing, Internet, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-04-01

Greenplum aims to eliminate massive data load 'choke points' with Scatter/Gather technology

Greenplum has taken massively parallel processing MPP of data to the next level with the introduction this week of its "MPP Scatter/Gather Streaming" SG Streaming technology, which manages the flow of data into all nodes of the database, eliminating the traditional bottlenecks with massive data loading. The...

Tags: Data, Node, Greenplum, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Dana Gardner

Blog posts 2009-03-18