Tag Archives: Isilon

Cruising Data Lakes at Supersonic Speeds

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Mercy Beckham

Traditional workloads or second platform workloads for organizations go into File Shares on NAS, HPC on SAN, or Backup/Archive workloads to tape. They typically work with SMB, NFS, or FTP protocols. Emerging workloads like Hadoop referred as third platform pushes … Continue reading →

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EMC Isilon and RainStor for Big Data Management

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Mercy Beckham

Big Data creates petabytes of data that organizations can readily mine to discover patterns and trends. Although Hadoop provides a comparatively inexpensive way to manage massive amounts of data, it is difficult to manage as the Hadoop cluster grows big. … Continue reading →

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Hosting Big Data

Posted on December 11, 2013 by Mercy Beckham

Rackspace recently introduced its new Big Data hosting options – customize your configuration for managing big data platform, run Hadoop on the public cloud, or configure your own private cloud. Rackspace eliminates the complex process of building and maintaining a … Continue reading →

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Virtualizing Hadoop

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Mercy Beckham

HDFS, the “storage” and MapReduce, the “compute” are combined in traditional Hadoop model. If this Hadoop model is directly translated into a VM, it will affect the ability to scale up and down as the lifecycle of VM is tightly … Continue reading →

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