Over the last eighteen months Hadoop distribution vendor, Hortonworks, has watched a stampede of users rush to the cloud, prompting the company to look for better ways to extend usability for first-time entrants to Hadoop territory and to accommodate the rush of test and dev workloads that prefer quick cloud deployments. …
If there is one lesson that the big three public cloud providers teach, it is that there is no substitute for breadth and depth in software engineering. …
What doubles every 18 months or so and drives the IT industry? …
Linux might have a 25 percent share of the server installed base, depending on who you ask, but it is The Next Platform of choice for new kinds of middleware and applications and has a much higher penetration on cloudy infrastructure. …
Technologies that are developed at hyperscale companies that operate applications at the datacenter scale, rather than of the server or the rack, can be tweaked to work for smaller enterprise customers. …
With the prices of flash storage coming down fast to meet a kind of parity with disk storage, and solid state memory having obvious throughput and energy savings benefits compared to spinning rust, you might think that disk drives would be pretty much dead out there on the public clouds. …
We tend to cover the various platforms that are being used at massive scale to tackle pressing enterprise and research problems, but once in a while, something out on the edge that shows how these platforms are being deployed catches our eye. …
Try as it may, Ethernet cannot kill InfiniBand. For the foreseeable future, the very high-end of the server, storage, and database cluster spaces will need a network interconnect that can deliver the same or better bandwidth at lower latency than can Ethernet gear. …
Except for some edge cases where extreme low-latency or high bandwidth is absolutely required, the Ethernet protocol absolutely rules networking in the datacenter, around the campus, and in our homes. …
Hoarding data using commodity storage servers is “cheap and cheerful,” as the phrase goes. …
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