Would you say I have a plethora of piñatas?

As more and more organizations start looking at Big Data analytics as a method to gain better business intelligence capabilities to their large databases, another question seems to come up. The question is how can you transition your current network storage, SANs, NAS etc, to support Big Data when they inherently can’t deal with terabytes or even petabytes of unstructured data. It is from this that we are seeing new methods for dealing with large volumes of data that might indeed result in a new storage platform design. Continue reading

It’s In That Place I Put That Thing That Time

If you’ve been on any cloud or virtualization site lately, you’ve probably seen the picture of a bright yellow elephant staring you down. The Hadoop elephant to be precise. Apache’s Hadoop is considered to be one of the most important technologies in the transition to large scale cloud environments. In fact, Yahoo! has been the largest contributor to Hadoop and uses it across their entire organization, as does Facebook. So here is a brief introduction to this large-scale software framework. Continue reading