It must be about time for Strata again as all the major big data players are busy readying their “Spring Break” round of announcements. First up, and perhaps addressing the …
NexGen was one of the first real flash/hybrid with QoS storage solutions, and it leveraged PCIe flash (i.e. Fusion-IO cards) to great effect. Which we suppose had something to do …
We’ve been following Oracle storage closely with their recent FS1 launch and now the roll-out of a newly upgraded ZS4-4 NAS appliance. They are definitely intent on providing the best …
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 …
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, …
I had a blast last week at Strata/Hadoop World NY 2014. I got a real sense that the mass of big data sponsors/vendors are finally focusing on what it …
