Stephen Prentice writes that Big Data presents a dilemma as well as an opportunity for business: Big data poses a significant dilemma for CEOs and business leaders because the investment required in emergent technology and the rapidly evolving discovery of the technical issues represent not only a substantial investment but also a significant risk. However, […]
Archives for August 2011
Zettabytes, Petabytes, and All That: The Intersection of Supercomputing and all the Data We Create
August 27, 2011 by
The SC10 technical program centered around three Technology Thrust areas this year: Climate Simulation, Heterogeneous Computing, and Data Intensive Computing. In this feature story sponsored by the SC10 Communications Committee, John West writes on the challenges of Big Data and how Data Intensive Computing is becoming an all-new scientific instrument for discovery. As computational resources, […]
Platform MapReduce Crosses Big Data and High-Performance Computing
August 27, 2011 by
On June 29, 2011, Platform Computing Platform announced the availability of Platform MapReduce, the industry’s first enterprise-class, distributed runtime engine for MapReduce applications. Built on the company’s core technologies, LSF and Symphony, Platform MapReduce enables businesses to focus on moving MapReduce applications into production by providing enterprise-class manageability and scale, high resource utilization and availability, […]
Slidecast: Hadapt's Adaptive Query Execution Speeds Big Data in the Cloud
August 27, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKCNt7U0zLs In this slidecast, I interview Justin Borgman, CEO of Hadapt. This week the company announced an initial round of financing and a set of patents related to Big Data analytics. Our patent-pending Adaptive Query Execution capability is unlike any other offering in the market,” explains Borgman. “In testing conducted at Yale University, we were […]
Big Data Still a Story about Tape
August 27, 2011 by
Spectra Logic CTO Matt Starr, makes the case that tape continues to have a bright future: EMC’s recent “Big Data” news splash did not mention tape, which kind of shocked me! (It’s only kind of shocking, as EMC is tape-hostile.) Tape is Big Data: 80% of the world’s data is stored on tape and tape is the […]
SAP's HANA In-memory Computing Platform
August 27, 2011 by
Chris Kanaracus writes that It’s been a year since SAP launched its HANA (High Performance Analytic Appliance) in-memory computing platform, so he caught up with SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner to learn more. What is it? HANA, which will be available in appliance form from a number of hardware partners, places data to be processed in […]
Podcast: Are Hard Drives Getting Too Big?
August 27, 2011 by
Podcast Powered By Podbean Storage pundit Greg Schulz asks the question: Are hard drives getting too big? As I discuss in this pod cast with Rick Vannover of Veeam, with the 2TB and even larger future 4TB, 8 to 9TB, 18TB, 36TB and 48 to 50TB drives not many years away, sure they are getting […]
Interview: Russian Supercomputer Outperforms All Others on Graph500
August 27, 2011 by
This week T-Platforms announced that Russia’s most powerful supercomputer at Moscow State University outperformed all competitors during the recent Graph500 benchmark tests. To learn more, I caught up with Anton Korzh, a systems architect at T-Platforms. insideHPC: How is it that computer system from T-Platforms installed at the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University was able to […]
The Secret Life of Tape
August 27, 2011 by
Our favorite storage pundit Henry Newman writes that while tape is the best technology for long term data storage, you still need to be mindful of its life span: Let me repeat: Tape does not have a standard framework to known information that is collected and analyzed. There are vendors that provide third-party products, and […]
Video: Big Data Trends with David Linthicum
August 27, 2011 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nshx9LhGhw In this video, InfoWorld’s David Linthicum discusses innovative technology in the context of enterprises. The big data movement provides us with capabilities to drive us into the analytical sphere so we can make sense of the information that already exists in the enterprise sphere.
