Tag: hadoop
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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…
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MDC in our parking lot, serving up OpenStack & Hadoop
Why use valuable internal real estate when you can just set up a Modular Data Center (MDC) in your parking lot? The point wasn’t lost on the Dell Solution Center team who, with help from our partners Intel, is doing just that here in Round Rock. The new MDC, which should be online in a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Now available: Dell | Cloudera solution for Apache Hadoop
A few weeks ago we announced that Dell, with a little help from Cloudera, was delivering a complete Apache Hadoop solution. Well as of last week its now officially available! As a refresher: The solution is comprised of Cloudera’s distribution of Hadoop, running on optimized Dell PowerEdge C2100 servers with Dell PowerConnect 6248 switch, delivered…
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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…
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Hadoop Summit: Looking at the evolving ecosystem with Ken Krugler
Here is the final entry in my interview series from the Hadoop Summit. The night before the summit, I was impressed when I heard Ken Krugler speak at the BigDataCamp unconference. Turns out Ken has been a part of the Hadoop scene even before there was a Hadoop, his 2005 start-up Krugle utilized Nutch which…