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 »In a recent blog post, Dan Crain, CEO of WhipTail (recently acquired by Cisco) concluded that: “We are seeing a new generation of data storage technology from companies that are pioneering new ways to think about “Big and Fast Data.”...
Read More »I just read an article written by Kevin Roose and published recently by New York mag that starts: “At 6 a.m. on Friday, I wake up, fumble for my alarm, and roll out of bed. As I walk to the...
Read More »Against a backdrop of continued uncertainty regarding founder Michael Dell’s proposal to Dell private via leveraged buyout (LBO), Dell hosted its Enterprise Forum recently in Santa Clara, CA for about 1,600 attendees that included customers, channel partners, analysts, and Dell...
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,...
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