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ScaleOut Brings Real-Time Analysis to Map Reduce

October 1, 2013

Business

Apache Hadoop, Big data, Database, Hadoop, Hardware, Java, MapReduce, ScaleOut

ScaleOut Software is a company producing memory-based storage and analysis products. Today the company is announcing general availability of its hServer V2 product which allows MapReduce to be run on live data. The product has a self-contained execution engine…

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It’s Amazing What Smarts Can Do–HP Express Query Astounds Discover Audience

December 19, 2012

Business

autonomy, Electronic discovery, File system, Hardware, hewlett packard, HP Labs, StoreAll, Unstructured data

Warning – People know me as a cloud guy, it’s unusual for me to get excited by hardware, but there’s something in this story that goes beyond simple hardware but instead delivers on Marc Andreeson’s now famous proclamation that…

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BYOD Is All About Enabling The Organization Of The Future

November 30, 2012

Business

BYOA, BYOB, Employment, Future, Hardware, iPad, Organization, security

A while ago over on GigaOm, Matt McLarty of Layer 7 Technologies wrote an awesome post about the rise of Bring Your Own Device or BYOD. For those who haven’t spent much time thinking about the term, BYOD describes the new…

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Rethinking IT As An Enabler, Not A Blocker

October 8, 2012

Business

amazon web services, Ben Kepes, Business, cloudcomputing, e-commerce, Hardware, Software as a Service, twitter

CloudU Notebooks is a weekly blog series that explores topics from the CloudU certificate program in bite sized chunks, written by me, Ben Kepes, curator of CloudU. How-tos, interviews with industry giants and the occasional opinion piece are what you can…

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VirtualSharp on Cloud Disaster Recovery

November 30, 2011

Business

cloud computing, data center, Disaster recovery, Hardware, Multitenancy, Replication (computer science), Storage

I’m sitting here at the CloudBeat event, a conference that I’ve had a deep involvement in with as co-content adviser along with my friend and colleague Paul Miller. Our focus for this event was to avoid the obvious vendor…

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TwinStrata Turns Local into Cloud

November 15, 2011

Business

Cloud storage, CloudArray, Hardware, Storage, TwinStrata

Given the sunk costs organizations already have in IT assets, it’s perhaps unsurprising that much innovation is occurring around blending existing infrastructure with cloud aspects. Latest to jump into the fray is TwinStrata who have just announced a new…

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SolidFire–Solid State Performance at Spinning Disk Pricing

June 27, 2011

Business

Computer data storage, Dave Wright, Disk storage, Hardware, Solid-state drive, SolidFire, Storage

I spent some time last week talking with Dave Wright, CEO of SolidFire at the Structure conference. SolidFire was formed by the founders of JungleDisk after they’d served out their earn out time post the acquisition of JungleDisk by…

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Blog Archives

ScaleOut Brings Real-Time Analysis to Map Reduce

It’s Amazing What Smarts Can Do–HP Express Query Astounds Discover Audience

BYOD Is All About Enabling The Organization Of The Future

Rethinking IT As An Enabler, Not A Blocker

VirtualSharp on Cloud Disaster Recovery

TwinStrata Turns Local into Cloud

SolidFire–Solid State Performance at Spinning Disk Pricing