Vendors have a penchant for attaching the hype cycle of the moment to any new product announcement. This time around, companies are “big data” washing everything they do. As a data storage administrator, you may find this confusing when it … Continued
Eight years ago, a friend and I were researching a book we would later call “Inescapable Data – Harnessing the Power of Convergence.” We were after an understanding of what kinds of new information one could produce by blending data … Continued
Last week I attended the GigaOM Structure Big Data conference in New York City. Although my resume says I’m a storage analyst of long standing, this was not a storage conference. However, my e-mail inbox reminds me daily that storage … Continued
IBM’s Watson debuted for a national prime time TV audience last night on CBS’ Jeopardy. Well, to be accurate, his avatar glowed behind his center-stage podium. He did however have a real button to push when he was ready to … Continued
The computing industry is seeing dramatic growth in the use of “shared nothing” database architectures where each node functions independently of one another and is self-sufficient (Hadoop Distributed File System for example). For the sake of performance, contention among nodes … Continued
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