AI
Airbnb Shares The Keys To Its Infrastructure
There was something ironic about meeting Mike Curtis, the vice president of engineering at Airbnb, in a hotel in lower Manhattan. …
Articles by Timothy Prickett Morgan
AI
Spark Makes Hadoop Mainstream, Cloudera Jumps In
It is probably a good thing that Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop, named the batch-mode data analytics product he created at Yahoo after his child’s stuffed animal rather than something specific like MapReduce Engine. …
Cloud
Intel’s Plan To Grow Its Share Of Datacenter Wallets
The only number you need to remember about Intel’s Data Center Group business for the next three years is this one: 15 percent. …
AI
How Can IBM Power8 Win Deals Away From Intel Xeon?
This is not the first time that Big Blue has found itself the underdog in the datacenter, and it probably will not be the last time, either. …
Enterprise
The Nitty Gritty Of In Memory Computing
As noted at the beginning of this article series last week, an initial dive into in-memory computing meant questioning whether this was just another of those buzz words or whether there was some meat behind it. …
Compute
Custom Servers Cool, Custom Storage White Hot
If the server and storage markets are bellwethers for the underlying strength of the economy, as we at The Next Platform believe, then the global economy has been perhaps more healthy than other indicators might have been pointing to. …
Compute
Is Quantum Computing Set For An Investment Boom?
Despite the woes heaped onto investors in the past couple of weeks, the future is still out there, waiting to be created. …
AI
Making Spark and Hadoop Run SQL Better And Faster
Here’s an image for you. There is no such thing as a data lake. …
Control
Verizon Satisfies Google Envy With Mesos
No business can avoid being inspired if not somewhat alarmed by the vast infrastructure that the hyperscalers of the world have put together in the past decade and their ability to squeeze efficiencies out of their datacenters. …
Compute
What In-Memory Computing Actually Means
Part II is published: The Nitty Gritty of In-Memory Computing can be found here
Not really very long ago the terms In-Memory Computing (IMC) and In-Memory Database (IMDB) seemed to start showing up big time. …