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Business benefits of a Software Composable Infrastructure
09/19/2017Introduction Software Composable Infrastructure is the next evolution in data center computing infrastructure that is designed to disaggregate hardware components and subsequently combine these disparate elements in an intelligent manner, [...]
Of Pets, Cattle, and Cabbage!
07/12/2017N.B. This is the text of a position paper I submitted to the 17th International Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems. In the past 10 years or so, Ethernet link [...]
Composable Infrastructure Meets Commodity Hardware
07/06/2017Gordon Grosse of MCSA has recently written an excellent article on Composable Infrastructure (CI). He lays out the evolution of data center technology from traditional to converged to hyper-converged to composable. At DriveScale we [...]
DataWorks Summit ReCap
06/19/2017The conference formerly known as Hadoop Summit, DataWorks Summit, just happened June 13-15,2017 in San Jose, CA. . Lots of big take-aways; here are my faves. The conference had a bunch more [...]
Software Defined Infrastructure is driving innovation for Big Data: Recap from Dell EMC World 2017
05/25/2017Dell EMC World 2017 took place on May 8-11, 2017 at the Sands Expo in Las Vegas, NV. Over 12,000 attendees came together to absorb 500 presentations spread over 3 [...]
The Move to the Public Cloud is Part of a Bigger Trend – Scale Out Taking Over
04/24/2017In his recent article, Patrick Thibodeau at Computerworld pointed out that the number of Data Centers are declining; indeed the total square ft. of raised floor is also declining. He [...]
Right-Sizing Your Big Data Infrastructure
04/20/2017Last month at the Strata-Hadoop conference I was privileged to give a presentation in the Solutions Showcase Theater. I spoke about right-sizing your big data infrastructure - how DriveScale can help you achieve [...]
Who cares how many data centers there are, since the amount of stuff in them keeps growing
04/18/2017When you show only insignificant numbers in an article or research paper, in terms of percentage decline or growth, you hide the absolute numbers and tend to mislead people. A [...]
Solving urban Hadoop infrastructure sprawl and inelastic clusters
04/17/2017Apache Hadoop, and Big Data analytics in general, have become common household names in small, medium and large enterprises. Big Data analytics is now a business necessity rather than a “good [...]
Data Gravity, Data Locality, and the Insatiable Demand for Bandwidth
04/03/2017Last year, I wrote a blog article on the continuing importance of data locality. But I continue to hear storage and big data vendors talk about how it is now irrelevant. [...]