Containers: The Case for VM Coexistence
Today, corporations have the technical flexibility to customize the datacenter to better fit their long- and short-term business goals. They are no longer locked into legacy infrastructure upgrades as ...Full Article
Gauging Resource Management as Hadoop Clusters Grow
Among the challenges to broader adoption of Hadoop in the enterprise are supporting multiple users and departments on a single cluster along with leveraging systems handling diverse workloads. Other ...Full Article
Why Go Out the NSX Limb? That’s Where the Fruit Is
Gartner identified it as one of the top 10 strategic technology trends to watch in 2015. IDC estimated the market will reach $8 billion by 2018. HP found a 222 percent ROI ...Full Article
DataStax Partners With Microsoft, Unveils Graph Database
DataStax has augmented the latest release of its Cassandra distributed database with an open source, scale-out graph database capability. The upgrade coincides with a preview release of the latest ...Full Article
Chief Processor Architect Exits AMD
Jim Keller, former chief architect of microprocessor cores at AMD, left the chip company for the second time last week to pursue other opportunities. Keller was in charge of ...Full Article
How to Build a Data Lake in One Simple Step
Gartner turned heads last year when it declared the majority of data lake projects would end in failure. As a self-avowed “old dog” of data warehousing, EMC’s Bill Schmarzo ...Full Article
Cray Forecasts More Enterprise Contracts
Global supercomputer maker Cray's recent deals with Danish and Swiss meteorological organizations further cemented its leadership in the weather business, but Cray predicts blue skies ahead for expanding sales ...Full Article
Docker Tool Chest Continues to Grow
Adoption and expansion of Docker application container technology continues to gain steam. San Francisco-based Docker, the de facto leader of the Linux distributed app container movement, announced an update ...Full Article
Univa Grid Engine Takes On Docker Orchestration, Scheduling
Workload management and optimization solutions developer Univa is entering the Docker orchestration frenzy with today's release of the Univa Grid Engine Container Edition product. In September 2014, Univa told EnterpriseTech ...Full Article
Cassandra NoSQL Deployments Convincing Doubters
Apache Cassandra, the Java-based distributed NoSQL database, is making inroads in production despite lingering skepticism about its ability to handle mission critical deployments. While Cassandra remains a second fiddle ...Full Article
