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Pulling Storage Together at Extreme Scale

August 1, 2018 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Comments Off on Pulling Storage Together at Extreme Scale

At the height of the Hadoop era there were countless storage and analytics startups based on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), several of which were backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which was committed to the Hadoop and open source-driven big data startup cause when that was all the rage in 2010 until around 2014 or so. …

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Tachyon Caching Is Bigger Than Spark In-Memory

February 25, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan Comments Off on Tachyon Caching Is Bigger Than Spark In-Memory

When the founding committer of the Spark in-memory computing framework becomes the CEO of a company that has dropped out of stealth mode and will very likely soon be offering support for a new storage caching layer for the modern, distributed computing era that will span beyond Spark, you have to stop and take notice. …