AI
What’s Fueling the Move to a Converged Data Platform?
The datacenter is going through tremendous change, and many long-held assumptions are now being called into question. …
Hadoop
Compute
Driving Compute And Storage Scale Independently
While legacy monolithic applications will linger in virtual machines for an incredibly long time in the datacenter, new scale-out applications run best on new architectures. …
AI
Hadoop, Spark, Deep Learning Mesh on Single GPU Cluster
When it comes to leveraging existing Hadoop infrastructure to extend what is possible with large volumes of data and various applications, Yahoo is in a unique position–it has the data and just as important, it has the long history with Hadoop, MapReduce and other key tools in the open source big data stack close at hand and manned with seasoned experts. …
AI
Apache Arrow Targets High Performance for Big Data Systems
The ever-growing open source data stack ushered in yet another piece this morning with Apache Arrow, a new top-level project providing a columnar in-memory layer that focuses on higher performance data processing. …
AI
Pushing Hadoop and HPC into the Same Box
Consider the metaphor of pushing an elephant into a small box. …
AI
Hype Over, Hadoop Gets Down to Business
In the decade that Hadoop has been a force, first as an independent research endeavor, then as a project at Yahoo, before moving swiftly into Facebook, LinkedIn, and other webscale datacenters, the entire data landscape changed. …
AI
A Decade of Hadoop: Creator Cutting on the Right Place for the Right Time
Without discounting the extraordinary amount of work and creativity that goes into developing the next big architectural trend, there is something to be said for being at the right place at the right time—and having the perfect blend of the correct skills and experiences to meet the moment. …
AI
Kafka Streaming Pulled Into Converged MapR Platform
Time and again, commercial Hadoop distributor MapR Technologies has demonstrated the value of the MapR-FS file system that underpins its Hadoop stack and differentiates it, more than any other feature, from the other Hadoop platforms with which it competes. …
AI
Spark Makes Hadoop Mainstream, Cloudera Jumps In
It is probably a good thing that Doug Cutting, the creator of Hadoop, named the batch-mode data analytics product he created at Yahoo after his child’s stuffed animal rather than something specific like MapReduce Engine. …