Breaking Analysis: Unpacking Veeam’s $5B Exit
In this week’s episode of theCUBE Insights, powered by ETR, we want to provide an analysis of the recent announcement that Insight Partners was acquiring Veeam for $5B. There’s lots of information on the announcement in press releases and news articles so what we really want to focus on is what it means for the […]
Breaking Analysis: Predictions 2020 – Cloud, Kubernetes & Cyber Security Continue to Power the Tech Economy
In this episode of theCUBE Insights, Powered by ETR, we put forth our 2020 predictions using insights gleaned from theCUBE blended with the ETR spending data. 2019 marked our tenth year of doing theCUBE. Over that time we’ve had the pleasure of covering nearly a thousand events and milestones including the exit from the great […]
Breaking Analysis: Predictions 2020 – Cloud, Kubernetes & Cyber Security Continue to Power the Tech Economy
In this episode of theCUBE Insights, Powered by ETR, we put forth our 2020 predictions using insights gleaned from theCUBE blended with the ETR spending data. 2019 marked our tenth year of doing theCUBE. Over that time we’ve had the pleasure of covering nearly a thousand events and milestones including the exit from the great […]
VMware's Past, Containerware Today, and All the Clouds for the Future
2019 is the tenth year of theCUBE at VMworld (see theCUBE.net for this year’s event)! I’ve had the pleasure of working with VMware since 2002: when their most popular product was Workstation; when they were starting to offer server virtualization, but before vMotion; and well before we were talking about cloud computing. In this article […]
VMware’s Past, Containerware Today, and All the Clouds for the Future
2019 is the tenth year of theCUBE at VMworld (see theCUBE.net for this year’s event)! I’ve had the pleasure of working with VMware since 2002: when their most popular product was Workstation; when they were starting to offer server virtualization, but before vMotion; and well before we were talking about cloud computing. In this article […]
Breaking Analysis: Arm Acquires Treasure Data
Notes from the Wikibon Research Meeting – Thoughts on Arm’s acquisition of Treasure Data Read the Arm press release. Implications for IoT, Intel and the three tiered edge… Arm (formerly ARM) today announced it has acquired Treasure Data, a cloud-based big data management company. Bloomberg reported the transaction value, which was not disclosed by the […]
Server SAN Projections 2016-2026
Premise Server SAN continues to grow fast, and is projected to replace most traditional storage arrays by 2026. Wikibon projects Enterprise Hyperscale Server SAN will migrate to True Private Cloud (TPC) Server SAN. Wikibon also projects that True Private Cloud Server SAN will make some headway together with Hyperscale Server SAN in public cloud storage. Definitions for the […]
A Guide to Concepts in Digital Twins
Premise. The digital twin programming concept will extend well beyond IoT. It presents a richer representation of real things that traditional programming technologies. Users need conventions for core concepts and how they fit together. In our conversations with the Wikibon community, we hear both interest and confusion regarding the notion of digital twins. We believe […]
Further Evidence of IBM’s Strategic Retrenchment in Enterprise Analytics
If you’ve been following IBM’s strategic moves over the past 6 months in data and analytics, it’s hard not to have some concerns. The announcements they’ve been making this year err on the side of excessive caution. What they illustrate is IBM Analytics’ ongoing retrenchment into mainframes, private clouds, and end-to-end data governance. IBM seems […]