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 [...]
I 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 [...]
Gordon 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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..
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. [...]