The company said Thursday morning that the board had unanimously picked Intel COO Brian Krzanich to replace Otellini, who in a surprise move decided to step down early a few months ago apparently with the taste of failure in his mouth given the market’s rejection of the desktop and Intel’s lack of position in mobile.
Intel also did something historic and split Otellini’s CEO and presidential roles apart, naming Renée James its first woman president and CEO heir presumptive.
The pair will take up their new jobs on May 16, the date of company’s annual stockholders’ meeting.
Krzanich, 52, was named COO in January of 2012. Since then, Intel said, he’s been running an organization of more than 50,000 employees consisting of Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group, Intel Custom Foundry, NAND Solutions group, HR, IT and Intel’s China strategy.
Monthly Archives: May 2013
10gen Backs Up MongoDB
Big Data projects are notoriously difficult to back up because data volumes
change so quickly and unpredictably.
So 10gen, the open source MongoDB commercializer, put out in limited
release Tuesday what it calls a “critical new tool” that’s supposed to let
companies of all sizes protect their data with a turnkey, pay-as-you-go,
cloud-based back-up service engineered for its NoSQL database.
Day 3 Keynote at Cloud Expo New York | Driving Cloud Innovation
IT has more opportunities than ever before with the growth in users, devices, data and secure cloud services. This creates not only a more enriching experience for users, but more opportunities for businesses. The key to capitalizing on these opportunities is to have the right tools in place to help scale operations.
In his Day 4 Keynote at the 12th International Cloud Expo, Robert (Rob) Crooke, corporate vice president and general manager of the Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Solutions Group at Intel Corp, will describe the range of products that Intel provides to support different usage models faced by IT with a specific emphasis on the advancement in SSDs.
Topics in Hybrid Cloud Worth Following
I wrote a blog for Cloud Ecosystem last month that talks about the disruption potential of hybrid clouds for disaster recovery. You can read it here: Hybrid Cloud will Transform Disaster Recovery. Within a few days CloudVelocity CTO Anand Iyengar weighed in shortly after with: The Hybrid Cloud is Ideal for Disaster Recovery.
A highlight from both blogs: the on demand pay as you go cloud model is a far superior operating model for DR, if and only if a true hybrid cloud can be deployed.
The issue of how a true hybrid cloud can be deployed was addressed in a great interview at Cloudcast with Brian Gracely and Rajeev Chawla called: Accelerating the Hybrid Cloud. The interview is especially relevant to the demands of deploying traditional multi-tier apps into a hybrid model. It isn’t easy, but it is a powerful game-changer for IT agility, availability and scalability.
BI bites into a bigger slice of Oracle’s Red Stack
Madan Sheina, Lead Analyst, Information Management
Oracle recently held its third annual Industry Analyst World conference at its Redwood Shores headquarters, and it came as no surprise to Ovum that business analytics featured as one of six major track themes (aligning nicely with our Big Data and Analytics Super Theme for 2013).
Oracle’s business intelligence (BI) and enterprise performance (EPM) portfolio is undoubtedly impressive in both breadth and depth. Having spent much time and effort rationalizing and updating its product set, Oracle is also planning innovative new analytics offerings through the convergence of new products, notably its Exalytics in-memory engine and Endeca-powered information discovery environment.
This will inevitably present product development, integration, and marketing challenges, but Oracle has the necessary engineering resources and budget to address all three. However, it needs to do so quickly.
BI and analytics now pivotal in Oracle’s Red Stack
Business analytics is a …
MapR Creates a ‘Game Changer’: NoSQL + Hadoop
MapR Technologies, the Hadoop house, Wednesday released M7, a Big
Data platform that’s supposed to remove the usual trade-offs involved in
deploying a NoSQL database on Hadoop.
The widgetry packages Hadoop with HBase, the open source NoSQL
database modeled after Google’s BigTable and now used under Facebook’s
Messaging Platform. It promises high availability, performance, low latency
and ease of use.
How to Stop Worrying and Love Your Cloud
The key drivers behind the Cloud Revolution are faster delivery of IT solutions, access to ‘unlimited’ on-demand capacity, and lower operating costs. Still, many struggle with the variables behind the Cloud, including data management, portability, and public, private, hybrid, and virtual private clouds. In his session at 12th Cloud Expo | Cloud Expo New York [June 10-13], AT&T’s Tim Halpin will be discussing how you can leverage cloud solutions to minimize risk and investment as you execute your overall IT strategy and move your production workloads into the Cloud.
Cloud and data explosion among big trends for enterprise IT, says survey
The latest cloud computing survey, this time from NaviSite, has examined enterprise IT’s strategies, in particular for coping with an increasingly data-heavy ecosystem, and found that cloud is at the forefront of the data strategy for IT execs.
The report interviewed more than 500 IT professionals from companies with more than 200 employees, and found intriguing trends in the enterprise space.
Cloud computing is one of the biggest trends facing enterprise IT departments today, according to a quarter of respondents. Slashed budgets was the top trend according to 31% of those surveyed, with data explosion (25%) rounding off the top three.
There have been plenty of recent surveys dissecting trends in the enterprise space. Interestingly, one of the most recent of these, a report from Ernst & Young and India’s CIO Klub, also focused on how to cut budgets. Previous iterations of the report did similarly – 2009 advocated wide …
Five Smart Tips for Public Cloud Success
We often discuss the virtues of private and hybrid clouds, since so many companies utilize more complex clouds as they scale. But where public cloud is concerned, we thought we’d share some ideas for how to frame a smart approach to ensure that your public cloud is serving the needs of your business best.
Multiple availability zone: An important first step to achieve a smart public cloud set up, ensuring your cloud is in multiple availability zones (AZs) sets the stage for a number of other important aspects of cloud functionality, be it performance or disaster recovery: being in multiple AZs can improve product delivery to end users as much as it can form the foundation of a highly redundant cloud architecture.
Video: CloudnShare an Example of Post-PC Sharing
The days of the smartphone being just a mobile accessory to a desktop or laptop are pretty much over, if this how-to video is any indication. Gemalto CloudnShare signup is from the smartphone app, and although sharing via desktop is supported, that’s the platform that has become almost an afterthought.
