Compute
The Endless Pursuit Of Scale At LinkedIn
There is nothing at all wrong with legacy application and system software as long as it can deliver scalability, reliability, and performance. …
HDFS
Store
Getting Hadoop to Jump Through AI/ML Hoops
Just a decade ago, the enterprise IT push was to make Hadoop the platform for storage and analytics. …
Store
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. …
HPC
Exascale Storage Gets a GPU Boost
Alex St. John is a familiar name in the GPU and gaming industry given his role at Microsoft in the creation of DirectX technology in the 90s. …
Compute
MapR Gives Single View Of Big Data
The enormous amount of data being generated will do companies little good if they can’t more easily gather it from multiple sources, store it, analyze it and gain important insights into it that will help them drive better business decisions. …
AI
Opening the Door for Wider Hadoop Storage Strategies
The Hadoop framework was created to deliver a balance between performance and data management efficiencies and while this is a good part of the reason it has taken off in recent years, there are still some areas of The Next Platform that are out of balance at the storage layer. …