IDC recently reported that the number of data centers is declining and, at the same time, the total square-feet of raised flooring in data centers is also shrinking. The market research firm attributed this to the consolidation of data centers and the renting of server and storage resources from the public cloud. CONTINUE READING
Dell 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 server storage mismatch is at the heart of management challenges with big data architecture and can create inefficiencies for hardware running Hadoop and Spark. A different take on dissaggregation can help. CONTINUE READING
Last 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 [...]
Apache 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 [...]
Last 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. [...]
Durability is one of the fundamental properties that people expect from data bases and file systems. From Wikipedia: "The durability property ensures that once a transaction has been committed, it [...]
So, you’ve had your Hadoop cluster for a while. You’ve got maybe 50 to 100 nodes running stably, you’ve got some mastery of the analytics frameworks – whether Spark or [...]
The server storage mismatch is at the heart of management challenges with big data architecture and can create inefficiencies for hardware running Hadoop and Spark. A different take on dissaggregation can help. Continue Reading..
There are a number of papers and blog posts stating that disk locality for Hadoop is no longer relevant. I disagree in the strongest terms, and present my case here. [...]
