Technological advancements have minimized the need for employees to be as physically present in a traditional office setting, and employee relationships…
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A 2011 Infrastructure Forecast
More exciting than examining the previous quarter is looking forward into the next 12 months and using the trends of 2010…
Read MoreBig Data 2011 Preview
ll of this makes 2011 an exciting year for benefiting from and managing big data.
Read MoreBig Data, ARM and Legal Troubles Transformed Infrastructure in Q4
As for Java, which, technically, is still very important but is losing its shine among web developers, Oracle’s stewardship of the…
Read MoreReport: Health Care’s Climb To the Cloud
The U.S. health care system remains one of the most fragmented and inefficient ones on the planet. In fact, many view…
Read MoreIn Q3, Big Data Meant Big Dollars
If the third quarter told us anything, it was that IT M&A activity is alive and well, particularly in the big…
Read MoreVMware’s Cloudy Ambitions: Can It Repeat Hypervisor Success?
So despite its progressive vision, VMware’s days of 80 percent market share will be gone.
Read MoreInfrastructure Overview, Q2 2010
The first quarter of 2010 was all about established vendors making their plays in emerging fields like cloud computing, but the…
Read MoreReport: NoSQL Databases – Providing Extreme Scale and Flexibility
The goal of this report is to explain the role of NoSQL databases within the context of the database market in…
Read MoreDefining Internal Cloud Options: From Appistry to VMware
Internal clouds are real and they're here, but many efforts are still in their early days. The problem is that transitioning…
Read MoreCA’s Cloud Computing Plans Explained
It's taken a full year and upward of $700 million in acquisitions, but CA Technologies (yes, it's a new moniker) finally…
Read MoreBig Data Marketplaces Put a Price on Finding Patterns
A decade ago, scientists would collect data over a period of years, upload that data to a supercomputer, then wait for…
Read MoreReport: Evolution of The Private Cloud
Every 15 years or so, the IT world undergoes a tectonic shift. Technological forces collide and grind against one another, creating…
Read MoreInfrastructure Market Overview, Q1 2010
When we're discussing cutting-edge topics like cloud computing and web infrastructure, it is easy to let startups and niche vendors dominate…
Read MoreMicrosoft Azure: What It Is, What It Costs and Who Should Care
An event more than a year in the making, Microsoft’s Windows Azure cloud-computing offering is finally available to the public. The…
Read MoreReport: Delivering Content in the Cloud
The growing ubiquity of the Internet is having a major influence on the video and software industries, which are using it…
Read MoreIn Q4, Data Centers, Not the Cloud, Were the Big Story
Of all the infrastructure trends during the fourth quarter, the biggest might be the changing shape of the data center market.…
Read MoreIn Q3, Cloud Computing Grew, Bringing Hardware & Services With It
Growing maturity in the cloud computing market was evident during the third quarter, with a focus on standards, APIs and more…
Read MoreAmazon’s Virtual Private Cloud: What’s New, What’s Next
On Aug. 26, 2009, Amazon announced a new initiative: the Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). Essentially, the new service enables a…
Read MoreReport: The Future of Data Center Storage
The last decade has seen tremendous evolution and innovation in storage array technology — from the introduction of thin provisioning and…
Read MoreWhat VMware’s SpringSource Acquisition Means for Microsoft
On Aug. 10, 2009, VMware announced a definitive agreement to acquire privately held open source Java application framework and platform developer…
Read MoreSecond Quarter 2009 in Review: Infrastructure
If an IT trend is legitimate when the old guard, which makes plenty of money selling traditional solutions to risk-averse customers,…
Read MoreBringing Moore’s Law to the Data Storage Market
Flash solid-state drives (SSD) will enable a once-in-a-decade improvement in storage price-performance. Flash SSDs sit between the CPU main memory and…
Read MoreDe-Duplicating the Storage Industry
Companies are rolling out storage efficiency technology as fast as they can since that technology helps delay and avoid additional capital…
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