Big Data

Of Acquisitions And Integration

Steve Broadhead Profile: Steve Broadhead

The IT world has gone acquisition bonkers. Dell is paying as much for EMC as any football club would do to secure the combined services of Messi and Ronaldo. Well almost...

Meantime, a couple of companies I keep tabs on have also been in acquisition...

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Cloud Innovation and Groundhog Day Combined…

Steve Broadhead Profile: Steve Broadhead

Within the general misty definition of "Cloud", sometimes something pokes through the veil of ether-precipitation that says "I'm new and I make sense".

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Benchmarking Integration…

Steve Broadhead Profile: Steve Broadhead

Just finished some testing at test equipment partner Spirent's offices in glamorous Crawley with client Voipex - some fab results on VoIP optimization so watch this space for the forthcoming report - and it made me think just how...

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Big Data = Big Transfer Speeds?

Steve Broadhead Profile: Steve Broadhead

So - there's been all this talk about Big Data and how it's replaced classic transactional processing in many application instances.

This much is true - what hasn't been discussed much, however, is how this impacts on performance; big data - say digital video - has hugely...

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September 4, 2012  3:15 PM

Tech Trailblazers Update

Steve Broadhead Profile: Steve Broadhead

awards, Big Data, Business, information technology, Mobile, Networking, Security, September, Storage Networking Industry Association

Just a quickie update to all you vendors with mega technology out there re: the Tech Trailblazer awards wot I blogged about earlier this summer.

Entry levels have proved (as did Top Gear) that you can't have too many awards competitions, and these are still open until the 12th...

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September 4, 2012  3:09 PM

At The End Of The Network

Steve Broadhead Profile: Steve Broadhead

Big Data, Bitspeed, EMC, hollywood, HP, Isilion, WAN

One of the problems we've faced in trying to maximise throughput in the past has not been at the network - say 0 Comments     RSS Feed     Email a friend

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May 9, 2012  3:53 PM

And Yet More SDN…

Steve Broadhead Profile: Steve Broadhead

Big Data, mexico, Netronome, Open source, SDN

I don't think I can remember a time - and this is saying something - when there were SO many hyper buzz-phrases in IT circulation as there are currently. Every cloud variant, Big Data, SDN...

So it's good for the system, soul and sensibility to get behind the hype and see what...

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