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Hadoop is the Answer! What is the Question?

| June 8, 2011
Hadoop is the Answer! What is the Question?

 Tim Negris, the VP of Marketing at 1010data, makes some interesting HADOOPIAN observations in this post. see http://cloudcomputing.sys-com/node/1860458 According to Tim, 1010data doesn’t have much actual overlap with Hadoop, which provides programmatic batch job access to linked content files for text, log and social graph data analytics.  I must confess, I have not been paying […]

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Energy Waste

| June 5, 2011
Energy Waste

I/O bottenecks waste more energy and create planning nightmares for Utility companies providing power for data centers.  Determining “Industrial Efficiency” will result in reduced utility bills and significant rebates putting cash on the balance sheet.

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Data Warehouse Analytics

| June 5, 2011
Data Warehouse Analytics

Latency is the killer of real-time data requiring the flow of more complex reads of the data warehouse. Data warehousing pros  are looking for a new solution to a never ending problem.

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Big Data I/O Forum Approach

| May 28, 2011
Big Data I/O Forum Approach

Big Data applications are proliferating rapidly, our objective will be critical to customer’s successful implementation of Big Data applications. The Forum will explore in-dept issues impacting their application, identify real-world paradigms and provide solutions. The Forum will reach out and educate the community and help accelerate adoption of new technologies.

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UCSD: Gordon tackling Data Intensive Applications

| May 28, 2011
UCSD: Gordon tackling Data Intensive Applications

Data intensive applications are creating a data tsunami requiring new architecture and new ideas. The good folks down at USCD have received a $20 million grant form NSF to attack the data intensive applications. Gordan, AKA Flash Gordon is a supercomputer based on SSD Flash Memory and Virtual Shared Memory.

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Digital Intermediate

| March 16, 2011
Digital Intermediate

Avatar has moved the bar for digitizing motion pictures and manipulating color and adding dimensions and image characteristics. This has created a new bottleneck in storage access and final creation adjustment to deliver final movies to theaters.

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Lustre Bottlenecks

| March 16, 2011
Lustre Bottlenecks

When you upgrade new processors into a Lustre environment of petabytes of storage, the Beowulf roars with indigestion.

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Boot Storms

| March 16, 2011
Boot Storms

Boot Storms a new challenge in enterprise VMware environments. Every Monday morning we boot up our VDI desktops and the Tsunami hits the storage farm! 

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