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Monthly Archives: April 2012
Another vote for the Apache Hadoop stack
This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Tony is senior analyst at Ovum. By Tony Baer As we’ve noted previously, the measure of success of an open source stack is the degree to which the target remains … Continue reading
Posted in big data, Tony Baer
Tagged Apache, big data, BriefingsDirect, Dana Gardner, Hadoop, Interarbor Solutions, OnStrategies, open source, Tony Baer
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Fast data hits the big data fast lane
This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Tony is senior analyst at Ovum. By Tony Baer Of the 3 “V’s” of Big Data – volume, variety, velocity (we’d add “Value” as the 4th V) – velocity has … Continue reading
Posted in big data, data center, Tony Baer
Tagged big data, BriefingsDirect, Dana Gardner, fast data, Hadoop, Interarbor Solutions, OnStrategies, Tony Baer
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Case study: Strategic approach to disaster recovery and data lifecycle management pays off for Australia’s SAI Global
Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: VMware. The latest BriefingsDirect case study discussion focuses on how business standards and compliance services provider SAI Global is benefiting from a strategic … Continue reading
Is Amazon the Hotel California of Web services?
Reblogged from GigaOM: Amazon(s amzn) CTO Werner Vogels had some words of wisdom Thursday for IT customers: “You should keep your providers on their toes every day. If we’re not delivering the right services you should walk away.” No one … Continue reading
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Virtualization simplifies disaster recovery for insurance broker Myron Steves while delivering efficiency and agility gains too
Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: VMware. When Hurricane Ike struck Texas in 2008, it became the second costliest hurricane ever to make landfall in the U.S. It was … Continue reading
Microsoft teams up with Ariba on B2B ecommerce front
Ariba is now teaming with Microsoft in business streamlining to empower buyers and sellers to better connect and collaborate across Microsoft applications and Ariba’s commerce cloud services. Announced last week at the AribaLIVE conference in Las Vegas, the joint effort … Continue reading
Posted in Ariba, Cloud computing, ERP
Tagged Ariba, Ariba LIVE, Ariba Network, BriefingsDirect, CRM, Dana Gardner, ERP, Interarbor Solutions, Microsoft, Microsoft Dynamics, networked economy, Tim Minahan
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The business aspects of cloud: Let’s get started
This guest post comes courtesy of Christian Verstraete, Chief Technologist, Cloud Strategy for HP. By Christian Verstraete I’ve spent the last several weeks addressing some of the business aspects of cloud and why/how companies move to the cloud. It’s time … Continue reading
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Tagged BriefingsDirect, cloud computing, Dana Gardner, HP, HP Converged Cloud, Interarbor Solutions, Verstraete
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SAP and databases no longer an oxymoron
This guest post comes courtesy of Tony Baer’s OnStrategies blog. Tony is a senior analyst at Ovum. By Tony Baer In its rise to leadership of the ERP market, SAP shrewdly placed bounds around its strategy: it would stick to … Continue reading
Posted in big data, data analysis, MySQL, Tony Baer
Tagged big data, BriefingsDirect, Dana Gardner, database, Hadoop, Interarbor Solutions, OnStrategies, SAP, Sybase, Tony Baer
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Oracle faces big data, cloud, hardware triple whammy
Reblogged from GigaOM: For years, Oracle(s orcl) wowed Wall Street with its fat margins on software licenses and maintenance. The fact was, many large companies depended on Oracle relational databases and paid what it took to keep them running. They … Continue reading
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SAP to Oracle: "I will drink your milkshake"
Reblogged from GigaOM: News flash: SAP(s sap) is a database company. At least that’s its story and it’s sticking to it. SAP has long been the enterprise software company, the leader in enterprise resource planning (ERP) and other mission-critical applications … Continue reading
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