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With rapidly increasing network speeds around the globe, it won’t be long before we see large-scale events, such as the NFL Super Bowl, broadcast live over mobile devices. Personally, I still prefer watching important games with family and friends on a big screen TV, but if I get caught in an airport, it would be nice to be able to catch the game on my smartphone.
In a recent IDC survey of over 2,500 organizations, 22% of respondents indicated that if their business analytics solution were out of service for up to one hour, it would have a material negative impact on business operations. That’s why IT groups are paying even more attention to resiliency around analytics deployments.
Today storage performance is boosted with new solid-state drive (SSD) technology. Many people think this is a new way to boost performance. The problem, though, is the price of these expensive parts. So, the trade-off between performance and price is not easy to find. Nobody can imagine using terabytes and terabytes of SSD in a monolithic approach because the cost would be prohibitive for a large-scale project.
This is part 1 of a series of 3 interviews with distinguished engineer John Easton on his point of view of Smarter Computing and its capabilities.
Everyone seems to be talking about software-defined networking (SDN), which makes it all the more remarkable that nobody can agree on what it means. When elder statesmen like Bob Metcalfe (who co-invented Ethernet) admit that they don’t know exactly what SDN means, you know there’s a lot of hype around this technology.
How is your data center architected for analytics? Are you still following a 1990s distributed model? Are you having difficulty managing legions of stand-alone servers, as IBM was in 2007? If so, you may want to consider taking a trip back to the future and bringing that processing back to where the source data is—back to the mainframe.
As the line between the traditional IT environment and the rest of our world blur, being able to manage all of the technology efficiently becomes increasingly difficult. It is especially difficult for IT in traditional enterprises. CIOs that leverage public cloud and new technologies in highly standardized, well-managed data centers will be the hyper-efficient IT services providers of the future.
I have been working more and more in the cloud as a security architect, and my current focus has been on encryption and key management technologies. What is interesting is that there isn’t a lot of difference between the encryption technologies we use in the cloud and the encryption technologies we use in an enterprise.
Learn how the Smarter Computing approach, when allied with smarter analytics, can increase the value of big data and power your business forward in the Smarter Computing Analyst Paper by Bola Rotibi, Research Director at Creative Intellect Consulting.
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