Paul Maritz (Photo credit: Dell’s Official Flickr Page) On March 15, EMC EMC +3.1%’s Chairman and CEO Joe Tucci announced the division of EMC into three groups: EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II), EMCVMware VMW +1.64%, and EMC Pivotal. In the grand scheme of all things … Continued
It is now clear that the Retail segment is investing in Big Data analytics sources and processes. The often cited reason is that retailers across the board are now seeing Amazon as a formidable competitor. The result is a desire … Continued
GigaOM’s annual Structure Data event, held typically during March in New York City, is billed as a Big Data analytics event. But I’m a self-confessed storage bigot and I saw this latest edition as a storage event. Cloud computing aficionados likely saw … Continued
I noted in a previous blog post that Hadoop needed a number of enhancements to make it more acceptable to enterprise users. One of them was simplicity. Indeed, even some of the purveyors of Hadoop distributions privately admit that Hadoop, … Continued
Eric Savitz, Forbes San Francisco bureau chief posted a very informative piece on the proposed Dell LBO that had been rumored for weeks and finally announced yesterday. The links he provides to documents Dell submitted to the SEC as part of its 8K filing are particularly … Continued
We’ve seen a lot of Hadoop services pop up lately that add management and analytics software on top of Hadoop infrastructure. Is there any innovation around the architecture of the storage clusters, or is software the only place that we’ll … Continued
In this SearchStorage.com podcast, associate site editor Ian Crowley speaks with Evaluator Group senior partner John Webster about the progress Hadoop vendors are making toward offering viable enterprise products for managing and processing “big data.” Listen to the podcast or read … Continued
John Webster talks on Shared Storage in this Podcast / Article: “That’s controversial, I would say, at the moment. The original implementers of Hadoop didn’t use shared storage for a couple of reasons. One, they were looking for performance. They … Continued
This week’s Facebook-initiated Open Compute Summit has been depicted by TechCrunch blogger Alex Williams as an event that benefits Facebook first and foremost as it builds out its data source business model. His well-written post basically says that significant revenue growth for Facebook can come … Continued
As CES kicks off, someone who follows the progress of Hadoop could well wonder where Hadoop fits—as an enabler of consumer-focused apps, an enhancer of enterprise business intelligence, or both. It is now clear that Hadoop has enabled the growth … Continued
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