Tag: big data
-
Sumo Logic and Machine Data Intelligence — DevOps Days Austin
Today’s interview from DevOps Days Austin features Sumo Logic’s co-founder and CTO, Christian Beedgen. If you’re not familiar with Sumo Logic it’s a log management and analytics service. I caught up with Christian right after he got off stage on day one. Some of the ground Christian covers: What does Sumo Logic do? How is…
-
Consumerization: setting the bar for IT
Mark Stouse of BMC has asked various people in the industry to answer seven short questions for his series Marking Predictions for 14. The questions are around Cloud Computing, Big Data and Consumerization. To give you a taste of what I was thinking about, here is my response to the second question and why I think…
-
Whitepaper: Learning from Web Companies to drive Innovation
Today I finally get to debut a white paper that Michael Cote, now of the 451 Research, and I started quite a while back: Learning from Web companies to drive Innovation – Embracing DevOps, Scale and Open Source Software The basic theme of the paper is that Web companies set the agenda for the IT…
-
Time Lapse: Building Dell’s Big Data/OpenStack MDC — allowing customers to test at hyper scale
Back in September I posted an entry about the Modular Data Center that we set up in the Dell parking lot. Here is a time lapse video showing the MDC and the location being built out. The MDC allows customers to test solutions at scale. It is running OpenStack and various Big Data goodies such…
-
Dell’s Big Data escalator pitch
At our sales kickoff in Vegas, Rob Hirschfeld chose a unique vehicle to succinctly convey our Big Data story here at Dell. Check out the video below to hear one of our chief software architects for our Big Data and OpenStack solutions explain, in less than 90 seconds, what we are up to in the…
-
Web Glossary part two: Data tier
Here is part two of three of the Web glossary I complied. As I mentioned in my last two entries, in compiling this I pulled information from various and sundry sources across the Web including wikipedia, community and company web sites and the brain of Cote. Enjoy General terms Structured data: Data that can be…
-
Hadoop World: Talking to Splunk’s Co-founder
Last but not least in the 10 interviews I conducted while at Hadoop World is my talk with Splunk‘s CTO and co-founder Erik Swan. If you’re not familiar with Splunk think of it as a search engine for machine data, allowing you to monitor and analyze what goes on in your systems. To learn more, listen…
-
Hadoop World: NoSQL database MongoDB
I’m getting near the end of the interviews that I did while at Hadoop World earlier this month, just one more after this (with Splunk’s CTO and co-founder). Today’s entry features a talk I had with Nosh Petigara, director of product strategy at 10gen, the company behind MongoDB. Some of the ground that Nosh covers Who…
-
Hadoop World: Battery Ventures EIR Todd P.
Todd Papaioannou has been in Big Data for a while. He built the original engineering team at Greenplum, worked at Teradata for 5 years and mostly recently, before joining Battery Ventures as an Entrepreneur in Residence, served as Yahoo’s Chief Cloud architect. I grabbed some time with Mr. P to learn what it means to…
-
Hadoop World: Learning about NoSQL database Couchbase
The next in my series of video interviews from Hadoop World is with Mark Azad who covers technical solutions for Couchbase. If you’re not familiar with Couchbase it’s a NoSQL database provider and the company was formed when, earlier this year, CouchOne and Membase merged. Here’s what Mark had to say. Some of the ground…
-
Hadoop World: O’Reilly Strata conference chair, Ed Dumbill
Yesterday, Hadoop World 2011 wrapped here in New York. During the event I was able to catch up with a bunch of folks representing a wide variety of members of the ecosystem. On the first day I caught up with Ed Dumbill of O’Reilly Media who writes about big data for O’Reilly Radar and also…
-
Hadoop World: Cloudera CEO reflects on this year’s event
A few hours ago the third annual Hadoop World conference wrapped up here in New York city. It has been a packed couple of days with keynotes, sessions and exhibits from all sorts of folks within the greater big data ecosystem. I caught up with master of ceremonies and Cloudera CEO Mike Olson to get…
-
Hadoop World: Accel’s $100M Big Data fund
Yesterday Hadoop World kicked off here in New York city. As part of the opening keynotes, Ping Li of Accel Partners got on stage and announced that they are opening a $100 million dollar fund focusing on big data. If you’re not familiar with Accel, they are the venture capital firm that have invested in…
-
Big Data is the new Cloud
Big Data represents the next not-completely-understood got-to-have strategy. This first dawned on me about a year ago and has continued to become clearer as the phenomenon has gained momentum. Contributing to Big Data-mania is Hadoop, today’s weapon of choice in the taming and harnessing of mountains of unstructured data, a project that has its own…
-
Does Hadoop compete with or complement the data warehouse?
Dell’s chief architect for big data, Aurelian Dumitru (aka. A.D.) presented a talk at OSCON the week before last with the heady title, “Hadoop – Enterprise Data Warehouse Data Flow Analysis and Optimization.” The session, which was well attended, explored the integration between Hadoop and the Enterprise Data Warehouse. AD posted a fairly detailed overview…
-
Hadoop Summit: Talking to the CEO of MapR
I’m now back from vacation and am continuing with my series of videos from the Hadoop Summit. The one-day summit, which was very well attended, was held in Santa Clara the last week of June. One of the two Platinum sponsors was MapR technologies. MapR are particulaly interesting since they have taken a different approach…