Robert Novak's Articles
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Data Center
The Three Superpowers behind your next SAP HANA deployment
When I started supporting enterprise application platforms at the turn of the century, the model was pretty simple: a single, huge server with expensive high-performance storage behind it. If you
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Data Center
It’s no use going back to yesterday’s storage platform for tomorrow’s applications
There’s a line in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland where Alice says “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Some days I feel that
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Data Center
Tales of a Fourth-Grade Something: Big Data with Cisco & Splunk at .conf & Strata
Someone at a meeting recently told me how cool it was that big data was finally moving out of the early adopter phase. He’s lucky I wasn’t drinking a beverage
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Data Center
Big Data is better than a sharp stick in the eye
Big Data is better than a sharp stick in the eye. I can say this with great authority, since I missed the first half of Strata+Hadoop World 2015 in San
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Perspectives
Help Me Replace My Internet, So I Can Call You Over It
I was thinking about security over the last month or two; it comes to mind pretty often when working in technology and when listening to news coverage of technology. But
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Perspectives
IoE and JiT: making the future more efficient through connectivity
If there was a developing market opportunity that would bring you $19 trillion (with a “T”), you’d probably be interested, wouldn’t you. If that market’s impact on the world–not just
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Perspectives
Security and Insecurity in the Internet of Everything
The Internet of Everything is a big thing, and it’s going to get bigger. As more devices, sensors, gadgets, and people get interconnected, you’ll hear more and more about it.
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