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GreenLake: Finally, A Platform That HPE Utterly Controls

June 29, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

Both Hewlett-Packard and Compaq, which also included parallel database system maker Tandem and minicomputer innovator Digital Equipment Corp when HP bought Compaq for $25 billion back in September 2001, had histories as platform providers but the combined companies were not able to create on the X86 platform the kinds of venerable platforms such as the HP 3000 and DEC VAX and AlphaServer minicomputers, the HP 9000 Unix systems, or the Tandem NonStop systems. …

Hadoop Pioneer MapR Faces An Uncertain Future

May 31, 2019 Jeffrey Burt 1

It is no secret that the big three commercial Hadoop distributors have been running into headwinds in recent years as more workloads and data have made their way into the public cloud and that these Hadoop platform providers have spent a lot of money and time to expand their stacks beyond the basic open source Hadoop. …

Breaking Out of the Hadoop Cocoon

April 8, 2019 Jeffrey Burt 1

The announcement last fall that top Hadoop vendors Cloudera and Hortonworks were coming together in a $5.2 billion merger – and reports about the financial toll that their competition took on each other in the quarters leading up to the deal – revived questions that have been raised in recent years about the future of Hadoop in an era where more workloads are moving into public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offer a growing array of services that many of the jobs that the open-source technology already does. …

Enterprise

Object Storage Tiering In A Cloudy World

July 10, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 1

For many enterprises these days, managing data has the feel of a three-ring circus. …

Successful Machine Learning With A Global Data Fabric

May 7, 2018 Jack Norris 2

One of the most common misconceptions about machine learning is that success is solely due to its dynamic algorithms. …

No Slowdown in Sight for Kubernetes

December 8, 2017 Jeffrey Burt 0

Kubernetes has quickly become a key technology in the emerging containerized application environment since it was first announced by Google engineers just more than three years ago, catching hold as the primary container orchestration tool used by hyperscalers, HPC organizations and enterprises and overshadowing similar tools like Docker Swarm, Mesos and OpenStack. …

MapR Gives Single View Of Big Data

November 22, 2017 Jeffrey Burt 0

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. …

Code

MapR Bulks Up Database for Modern Apps

September 26, 2017 Jeffrey Burt 0

MapR Technologies has been busy in recent years build out its capabilities as a data platform company that can support a broad range of open-source technologies, from Hadoop and Spark to Hive, and can reach from the data center through the edge and out into the cloud. …

Looking Down The Long Enterprise Road With Hadoop

March 1, 2017 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 0

Just five years ago, the infrastructure space was awash in stories about the capabilities cooked into the Hadoop platform—something that was, even then, only a few pieces of code cobbled onto the core HDFS distributed storage with MapReduce serving as the processing engine for analytics at scale. …

A New Twist On Adding Data Persistence To Containers

February 7, 2017 Jeffrey Burt 0

Containers continue to gain momentum as organizations look for greater efficiencies and lower costs to run distributed applications in their increasingly virtualized datacenters as well as for improving their application development environments. …