As a Coloradoan, I was greatly pleased to see the purchase of SolidFire by NetApp, another data storage success in our state. But I was concerned when I read an article last week about how X-IO, the storage manufacturer in...
Read More »“In production” is a phrase often used by enterprise data center administrators to delineate applications and system that are used to support an organization’s day-to-day operations from those in a status that is something else—in test for example. And reaching...
Read More »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...
Read More »Whose making the storage decisions now? Five years ago it was pretty straight forward. The person buying storage was the Storage Architect, influenced by the Storage Admin with a budget approved by the direct line bosses, depending on how much was...
Read More »Within enterprise data centers, Hadoop is a shiny new toy—the same place where the mainframe is sometimes thought of as a dinosaur. Yet the two have some things in common. Both are used as large scale, high performance batch processing...
Read More »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,...
Read More »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...
Read More »It's Monday morning at EMC World 2011 and EMC Chairman Joe Tucci opens the show with 10,000-plus in the audience. On stage with Tucci are big black boxes. What's wrong with this picture? EMC is no longer a company that...
Read More »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...
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