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Hortonworks Wants an Enterprise-Ready Hadoop, says CTO [Video]
The recent changes at Hortonworks, which saw Eric Baldeschwieler move from CEO to CTO and Rob Bearden become CEO, were routine and do not indicate any change in the company’s dedication to developing open source Hadoop into a full, enterprise-ready tool, Baldeschwieler says. I really always have been the CTO,” he said in a live ...
Hadoop Ecosystem Going Mainstream: A $50 Trillion Future [Video]
Last year was the year of validation for Hadoop, when the endorsements by a growing list of vendors and users showed that it was for more than a toy for Yahoo, Google, Facebook, and Twitter, says Tresata Founder and Big Data Visionary Abhishek Mehta. This year’s Strata conference shows that it has entered the proof-of-concept stage, ...
1010data Provides Big Data Analysis in the Cloud with the Trillion Row Spreadsheet
1010data (pronounced Ten-ten data) is a SaaS big data management and analysis provider created by two former Wall Street analysts in 2000, before either Software-as-a-Service or big data existed as industry terms. It has more than 200 blue-chip customers in finance, retail, customer packaged goods, healthcare, and telecom, including Bank of America, J.P Morgan/Chase, AutoZone, RiteAid, ...
Hadoop, HBase Changing the Economics of Data Says Cloudera CEO Mike Olson
Hadoop and HBase have changed the economics of data, Cloudera CEO Mike Olson said on a SiliconAngle.tv live webcast from the O’Reilly Strata 2012 conference. “When we talk to customers, one of the measurements we talk about is return per byte of data,” he told SiliconAngle CEO John Furrier and Wikibon.org Chief Analyst David Vellante. ...
IDC Says EMC Leads in Hot Purpose-Built Backup Appliance Marketplace
EMC is dominating the lucrative and fast growing market for purpose-built backup appliances (PBBAs), says a just-published Market Analysis report from IDC. PBBAs are disk-based backup appliances that are replacing tape backup in large enterprises and medium-sized businesses worldwide. The trend is driven by several converging forces, IDC says, including the need for faster backup, ...
The Actual Figures Behind Potential HP Gen8 Savings
HP’s Project Voyager announcements last week of a new generation of servers and storage with advanced management automation were focused tightly on solving real data center operations problems and, in the process, saving money in the operations budget. Now Wikibon CTO David Floyer has published the results of Wikibon’s independent analysis of the potential savings from HP ...
Gen 8 Rethinks Storage to Solve Basic Data Center Issues, Says HP
The Gen 8 servers represent a complete rethinking of server and storage hardware design, incorporating some 600 new patents to solve many of the most common and most expensive customer pain-points in data center operations said Mark Potter, SVP and General Manager of Standard Servers and Software. Speaking at the press conference kicking off HP’s ...
Small Touches Make a Big Difference in ProLiant Gen 8 Servers
HP’s services group partnered with the hardware group on the two-year effort to design the ProLiant Gen 8 hardware. Specifically this means extensive automation, 1,500 built-in sensors, and other design elements focused on improving reliability, HP and channel partner service responsiveness, and cutting time-to-resolution of problems. That is what Antonio Neri, HP VP and General ...
EMC VFCache Interesting but Limited, Says Wikibon Community
The Wikibon community sees EMC’s VFCache, announced Monday, as interesting but limited and in large part an effort by EMC to freeze the market, in this case for flash PCIe cards in servers, at least among EMC users. That is the take-away from the Wikibon Peer Incite meeting today discussing the implications of the announcement. ...
A Closer Look at the Implications of EMC’s VFCache: Join the Live Discussion
Tomorrow at noon EST (9:00 A.M. PST) the Wikibon community will convene in a Peer Incite titled “Squinting through the Glare of Project Lightning” meeting to discuss the implications of EMC’s announcement of VFCache, aka “Project Lightning”, a unique PCIe server flash card implementation intended to work with EMC storage arrays. The meeting is fee ...