Deep Learning with DriveScale
11/27/2017I had the privilege of attending the DellEMC HPC Community meeting prior to the SuperComputing '17 conference. There was a lot of discussion of Deep Learning as a rapidly growing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
What Ever Happened to Durability?
03/07/2017Durability 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 [...]
To Infinity, and Beyond! – Scaling Your Hadoop Big Data Infrastructure
01/10/2017So, 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 [...]
Data Center Knowledge | DriveScale Says Big Data Needs a New Kind of Data Center Infrastructure
06/16/2016
DriveScale, the Silicon Valley data center technology startup founded by a group of Sun and Cisco veterans who were behind some of the two iconic companies’ core data center product lines, such as Sun’s x86 servers and Cisco’s Nexus Switches and Unified Computing System (Cisco UCS), has built a scale-out IT solution geared specifically for Big Data applications.Continue Reading..
Locality, Locality, Locality!
05/12/2016There 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. [...]