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Postcard from Shenzhen: China’s mega datacenter growth, mixed with a more...
Walking the Great Wall before visits to some of China’s mega datacenters I’ve been travelling to China quite a bit over the last year or so. I’m sitting in Shenzhen right now (If you know Chinese...
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Performance Play: Winning a competitive advantage with Hadoop and big data
Big data and Hadoop are all about exploiting new value and opportunities with data. In financial trading, business and some areas of science, it’s all about being fastest or first to take advantage of...
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Everything you knew about datacenter architecture is changing
I was lucky enough to get together for dinner and beer with old friends a few weeks ago. Between the 4 of us, we’ve been involved in or responsible for a lot of stuff you use every day, or at least...
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China in the clouds, again
I’ve just been to China. Again. It’s only been a few months since I was last there. I was lucky enough to attend the 5th China Cloud Computing Conference at the China National Convention Center in...
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Big Data (Part 1): The weather – Getting the forecast fast … and accurate
We all watch the local weather and wonder how forecasters predict (or in some cases mis-predict) the future of weather. While they may not all agree on the forecast, they do agree that the more...
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Big Data (Part 2): Flu shots – the right dose for the right strain
Every year I diligently get in line for my annual flu (or more technically accurate “seasonal influenza”) shot. I’m not particularly fond of needles, but I have seen what the flu can do and the how...
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AIS demonstration: LSI optimizes Hadoop cluster performance with DataBolt...
Pushing your enterprise cluster solution to deliver the highest performance at the lowest cost is key in architecting scale-out datacenters. Administrators must expand their storage to keep pace with...
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AIS: Open Compute and OpenStack – “peanut butter and jelly”
Open Compute and OpenStack are changing the datacenter world that we know and love. I thought they were having impact. Changing our OEMs and ODM products, changing what we expect from our vendors,...
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2020 datacenter: Predicting the unpredictable through a kaleidoscope
It’s the start of the new year, and it’s traditional to make predictions – right? But predicting the future of the datacenter has been hard lately. There have been and continue to be so many changes in...
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Hadoop 2.0 … and one giant leap for the elephant
Hadoop has grown from an identity-challenged adolescent, a budding technology unsure of which use cases to call its own, to a fairly mature young adult with its most recent release of Hadoop® 2.0....
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Restructuring the datacenter ecosystem: Technologies, hyperscale and...
I was asked some interesting questions recently by CEO & CIO, a Chinese business magazine. The questions ranged from how Chinese Internet giants like Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent differ from other...
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Why are appliances so popular in big data?
Big data, it’s the buzz word of the year and it’s generating a lot of attention. An incalculable number of articles fervently repeat the words “variety, velocity and volume,” citing click streams, RFID...
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Postcard from Shenzhen: China’s hyperscale datacenter growth, mixed with a...
Walking the Great Wall before visits to some of China’s hyperscale datacenters I’ve been travelling to China quite a bit over the last year or so. I’m sitting in Shenzhen right now (If you know Chinese...
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Performance play: Winning a competitive advantage with Hadoop and big data
Big data and Hadoop are all about exploiting new value and opportunities with data. In financial trading, business and some areas of science, it’s all about being fastest or first to take advantage of...
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