Maria Deutscher
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What eBay’s latest open-source project means for Hadoop
The last few months have seen eBay Inc. move from the sidelines of the open-source analytics ecosystem into the heart of the action with the introduction of two projects that push the envelope on large-scale data science. The pivot mirrors a broader shift in the ecosystem that the most recent of the additions accelerates. The ...
Docker launches container orchestration toolkit with Hadoop and OpenStack support
Docker Inc. is finally making its long-anticipated management technology available for download after three months of open-air incubation on GitHub. The launch marks another major step forward in the evolution of containers towards enterprise-readiness. One of the biggest benefits that the lightweight virtualization model offers over the conventional hypervisors dominating the enterprise today is the ...
Simplicity is the way forward for Hadoop | #BigDataSV
A decade after its release, Hadoop has finally taken off. The top three distributors boast several hundred paying customers each, with more and more coming aboard every quarter. But Lawrence Schwartz of Attunity Ltd. believes that the path towards mass adoption is far from straight. Speaking on theCUBE at the recent BigDataSV 2015 meet-up, the ...
Paradigm shift: How Apache Mesos is reshaping the data center into a giant PC
Most people couldn’t get much done on their computers without an operating system. Working the hardware directly would require the specialized knowledge and near-infinite patience to manually feed instructions to each processor on the motherboard in its specific language for every single action. It’s an impossible proposition. Yet the infrastructure professionals who keep the world’s ...
What you missed in Cloud: Everything-as-a-service
The on-demand model of the cloud is spreading to the farthest corners of the industry with increasing demand from organizations for greater flexibility in how they consume technology. The trend passed another milestone in its expansion last week as one of the top hosting providers in the Hadoop ecosystem revealed a pay-as-you-go implementation of Spark. The ...
EMC exec: Real goal of analytics too often lost in technology weeds | #BigDataSV
It seems that hardly a week goes by without the introduction of some new way to wrangle insights from data. That breakneck evolution has contributed much of the momentum behind the meteoric rise of analytics in the enterprise, but the constant technological change can distract from ultimate goal of analytics, which is to make more ...
IBM re-asserts storage leadership with new all-flash arrays
IBM is back in the enterprise limelight with two new all-flash arrays that incorporate key innovations from its patent trove to up the ante against the competition. The systems are the first fruit of the $1 billion investment in software-defined storage that it revealed a few days prior. The company’s new hardware-agnostic management platform featured prominently ...
Report: Nutanix working on a standalone implementation of its Server SAN software
The next major launch from trendy infrastructure startup Nutanix Inc. won’t involve any hardware, according to a new report on The Register. Instead, the appliance maker is switching gears and preparing to launch a standalone version of its management stack that can run on third party equipment. The move continues the trend of administrative functions ...
HP steps up software-defined networking push with white-box switches
Hewlett-Packard is expanding its presence in the commodity switch business in an effort to address the burgeoning demand for bare-metal networking equipment. The move extends the strategy HP is pursuing in the server market to target web-scale customers such as service providers. The mastermind behind the model, Alain Andreoli (above), detailed to SiliconANGLE in an exclusive interview ...
Tamr wants to disrupt the data lake with its upgraded information unification platform
A promising startup called Tamr, Inc. managed to stand out from the crowd at Strata + Hadoop World 2015 with a new release of its data unification platform that offers to deliver on the elusive promise of integrated analytics, a term that’s frequently used but rarely delivered upon. There are countless data processing solutions possessing ...
