From time to time, I have the opportunity to work with customers setting up their initial Hadoop cluster and we are often asked what should be a simple question: “How many nodes do I need […]
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Bearded Editorial – EMC SE Forum 2015 – Data Fabrics Minor Tech Sessions
The EMC SE Forum is a wrap now and the Data Fabrics Minors team was invited to attend six hours worth of technical breakout sessions over the two-day event focused on Big Data and Analytics […]
Big Data Expert Panel
During the Big Data Expert Panel at Arrow’s IoT Immersions event in Minneapolis last year, one of the EMC partner reps was nice enough to capture my responses to some of the questions posed.
Elastic Big Data Infrastructure with VMware’s Big Data Extensions 2.1 and Isilon
Written and originally posted in December of 2014… The holiday season is upon us and many of us will soon lie miserable on a couch after we inevitably consume copious quantities of tryptophan-laden turkey, ransack […]
Splunk and Isilon – Big Data Lakes Filled with MGD
Is Big Data the new bacon? It certainly appears that way these days with the amount of excitement and energy swirling around these ideas and associated technologies. I can smell the sweet, smoky excitement every […]
Isilon and Hadoop – The Enterprise Data Lake Substrate
The value proposition of Hadoop for most organizations is that it provides a low-cost way to keep large volumes of data online and creates a framework for analyzing that data to uncover new value drivers […]