Month: November 2014

IoT Goes Real-Time, Gets Predictive – Glassbeam Launches Spark-based Machine Learning

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

In-Memory processing was all the rage at Strata 2014 NY last month, and the hottest word was Spark! Spark is big data scale-out cluster solution that provides a way …

GridGain Turns Over In-Memory Platform To Apache As Ignite Project

(Excerpt from original post on the Taneja Group News Blog)

Recently I wrapped up a report on GridGain’s In Memory Hadoop Accelerator in which I explored how leveraging memory can vastly improve the production performance of many Hadoop MapReduce jobs, …

Figuring out the real price of flash technology

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchSolidStateStorage.

Sometimes comparing the costs of flash arrays is an apples-to-oranges affair — interesting, but not very helpful.


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We’re often told by hybrid and all-flash array vendors that their particular total cost of …

What are the advantages to using a hybrid cloud model for backup?

An IT industry analyst article published by SearchCloudStorage.

Hybrid clouds are most frequently used for backup purposes because they relieve enterprises of the need to use a secondary data center.


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The hybrid cloud model tends to get used today mostly …