Recently at the Cloudera Analyst Conference, open source was front and center. In fact, it was suggested that they stressed open source so much that their unique value seemed to be lost. What stood out the most was not how they embraced open source so much as how...
Google has been in the cloud platform business for years yet is always portrayed as an also-ran to Amazon’s AWS cloud services. Even when Google is praised for its enterprise cloud offerings in the press, there is always a comment along the lines of “but they’re way...
The annual Jive conference – JiveWorld 2016 – was all about community. Jive executives and customers consistently used the word “community” to explain the features and use of Jive’s software products. This makes a great deal of sense given the role of community in...
On March 14, 2016, Pure Storage announced its new FlashBlade solid state array. Differentiated from its flagship product, FlashArray//m, FlashBlade focuses more on capacity and sharing data. According to Pure Storage’s own press release, the FlashBlade, which consists...
If you asked me even at the end of last year, I would have told you that the commercial enterprise will not have an all flash datacenter any time in the future. This week, I was proven wrong. I love being proved wrong, because it means what I thought was not possible...
