Hadoop
How Ancestry.com Branched Out And Embraced Scale
Ancestry.com is dedicated to discovering, preserving, and sharing family histories, and it knows all about the issues of scaling up IT operations to match a growing number of users. ...Full Article
Cluster Sizes Reveal Hadoop Maturity Curve
If you want to get a rough sense of how mature a Hadoop installation is, all you need to do is count the server nodes. The largest Hadoop clusters ...Full Article
Lustre Makes the Enterprise Grade with HSM
The Lustre parallel file system that was spawned and nurtured in supercomputing labs is now more appropriate as a high-speed file system for enterprise applications. With the launch of ...Full Article
Exar Compresses HDFS, Boosts Hadoop Performance
Here at EnterpriseTech, we are always on the hunt for any technology that can be used to push performance on large-scale systems. At the Strata/Hadoop World conference in New ...Full Article
IBM Says Uncle to AWS on $600 Million CIA Cloud
After nine months of disputing that Amazon Web Services should not have been awarded a massive contract to build a private cloud for the US government's Central Intelligence Agency, ...Full Article
Big Hadoop Shops Are on a Hockey Stick Growth Curve
As the dominant supplier of commercially supported Hadoop software, Cloudera has perhaps the best view of what is going on among large enterprises as they use the platform. To ...Full Article
Quanta QCT Peddling Open Compute Servers in North America
Enterprises that are looking to deploy servers and racks based on the Open Compute Project's designs have a new option now that Quanta QCT is ready to sell iron in ...Full Article
Hadoop Speed Up From Lustre Will Attract Enterprises
Intel wants Hadoop analytics and the Lustre high-performance file system to work well together for enterprises. The idea is to ease the integration woes of customers who run both ...Full Article
SAP Fills Out Its Hadoop Dance Card
Recently, SAP has begun a fresh push to beef up its big data chops, including the addition of new partnerships to distribute two different flavors of Apache Hadoop to ...Full Article
Intel and Oracle Join Hands Over Hadoop
Two old-guard players will be standing together against challengers in the rising data tide, revealed Doug Fisher, general manager of software and services at Intel at Oracle’s OpenWorld 2013 ...Full Article
