Tag: Apache Spark

In-Memory Computing & the Emergence of Tier-1 Storage: Forbes.com blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Thursday, January 29th 2015

Analyst Blogs

We’ve been watching the advance of solid state disk (SSD) as its ever improving price for capacity metrics make it an attractive replacement for relatively slow, spinning, mechanical disk media. Disk drive manufactures like Hitachi saw this coming years ago...

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Is It Time for Hadoop Alternatives? Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Monday, December 8th 2014

Analyst Blogs

Hadoop has progressed from a large scale, batch-oriented analytics tool used by a handful of webscalers to a multi-application processing platform for webscale and enterprise users. The vendors of Hadoop’s three major distributions uniformly characterize it as a modern architecture...

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