In my previous article I wrote about the five factors that limit Hadoop's role in the enterprise datacenter. To recap, the limitations are, Increased storage sprawl Three times as much storage Costly data moves Single point of failure No support...
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So far, we’ve said that Hadoop is a framework for building distributed computing clusters that can address the processing of large and disparate data sets. However, another way to think of Hadoop is as a storage device or storage environment....
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We concluded the last article in this series on managing "big data" with a question: Does Hadoop storage have to be direct-attached storage (DAS)? This article introduces some alternatives to the strict use of embedded DAS for hardware-based storage within...
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Of the numerous ways that have emerged in the last few years to do “big data” analytics, none has received more media attention than Hadoop. Hadoop began conceptually with a paper that emanated from Google in 2004 describing a process...
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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...
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Calvin Zito sits down with John Webster at SNW to get his views on big data. John Webster podcast For more articles and podcasts by Calvin, please visit his blog: Around the Storage Block
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Calvin Zito sits down with Evaluator Group's senior analyst, Leah Schoeb to discuss what is happening with Green Storage Initative at SNIA and a program they started called Emerald. For more articles and podcasts by Calvin, please...
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Boulder, CO Monday, March,19 2012.Evaluator Group, Inc. announces the appointment of Leah Schoeb to the position of Senior Partner. Leah joins Evaluator Group with extensive knowledge in performance engineering and benchmarking around cloud infrastructure and virtualization. With her addition to...
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Hitachi Data Systems Corporation announced that Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc, has achieved exceptional benchmark results from VDI-IOmark testing based on the delivery of high-performance, scalable and file-based tools essential for managing VDI deployments. Cumulative Distribution Graph of...
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