Syncsort Sorting out Big Data

Syncsort’s Lone Jaffe, new CEO of Data Integration1 as of June 2013, has set his company’s sights on owning Big Data sorting. The origin of Syncsort’s prowess in processing data quickly comes from a protracted fight with IBM’s mainframe sort program in the 1970s. In a world where batch tape and disk sorts times determined the length […]

VMware Dominant in Multi-Hypervisor Data Centers

Virtualization has moved beyond an approach to consolidate physical server sprawl, with a narrow focus on test and development workloads, to much more of a strategic platform for business value creation. Abstracting infrastructure complexity, hardening availability and more integration across the stack has enabled organizations to connect deeper into business processes as they begin to aggressively support business and mission critical applications. Generally, the overheads associated with virtualization have become minimal and are far outweighed in many workloads by other business benefits.

New Hyper-Converged Product Options Provide New CIO Opportunities

I’ve written before about the potential promise of hyper-converged infrastructure when it comes to bringing some new opportunities to the data center. While hyper-convergence may not be for everyone and it’s one part of a broad IT strategy, it is certainly an intriguing option that can bring a bit of calm to the data center […]