Getting Massively Scalable Storage Has Never Been Easier
What an exciting week in Atlanta as local high tech companies and the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) are hosting Big Data Week. Atlanta is home to 11 of the Fortune 500 companies such as UPS, Coca Cola, Delta Airlines and Home Depot. Combine that with one of the top 10 engineering and computer science schools, Georgia Tech, and you get a recipe for limitless innovation in Big Data technology.
This week is packed w...
While the U.S. Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community have been somewhat late to the game regarding cloud storage, they’re making bigger strides now and realizing the value not just from an economics point of view but from an overall performance and time-to-insight perspective.
Government agencies have been exploring cloud options for a while now, primarily from a cost savings perspective. Their interest got a lot more urgent as budgets continue to dry up, an...
A storm is brewing in the media and entertainment industry, and I’m not talking about the buzz around the Today Show’s ratings or if Matt Lauer will be leaving the morning TV news program. The storm I’m talking about is the proliferation of cloud technology, and how media and entertainment companies need to prepare to embrace it.
At 2:30 p.m. on Monday, April 8, I will be speaking at the
These are happy days at DDN! Our friends at Gartner have released their 2013 enterprise storage magic quadrant. Affectionately titled, “Magic Quadrant for General-Purpose Disk Arrays”, this report is a change from previous years in terms of Gartner’s enterprise storage focus, where this new quadrant reviews the newly blurred lines of storage – referencing NAS, mid-range, high-end and even (gasp!) object storage.
The world and its mother has gone cock-a-hoop for Hadoop and although interest in waning for the original Map/Reduce compute model, the ecosystem is nicely morphing and evolving from batch into a streaming and real-time architecture.
As for the HDFS – the storage side of Hadoop – most recently we’ve seen EMC announce that they’re planning to layer it over their ATMOS product line, which is certain...
If you’ve ever seen published numbers for how much data is stored in enterprise data warehouses (EDW), it’s usually shockingly small. That is only because high storage costs make it difficult for most enterprises to keep an EDW with more than a small number (low tens of terabytes). The economics of old-fashioned enterprise storage are so skewed against the biggest of Big Data that many major enterprises feel they have to make sacrifices.
As a result, many enterpris...
For those of you who do not already know me, I am Per. My name is Per Brashers, neither of which is phonetically spelled; more on that some other day! I am the Chief Architect for storage solutions at DDN, and recently came from overseeing storage at Facebook. On my DDN blog, I look forward to drilling into specific approaches around the scalability challenge.
As you may have seen, today we announced the DDN hScaler appliance. I wanted to take a minute with my first blog to ...
Hi, I’m Jean-Luc Chatelain, executive vice president of Strategy and Technology for DDN. My passion and life’s work is in creating new and better technologies for Big Data and analytics. I am launching this blog with a goal of sharing with you my thoughts and observations about accessing, processing, storing and distributing Big Data; you can also follow me via Twitter on @informationcto. I really hope to get a dialog going, as well as feedback from others who share my enthusiasm for this sp...
Hello, world.
After many, many years of reading online musings and after running marketing at DDN for years, I’ve asked myself… “Hey, Jeff. You’ve had the chance to do this for a while. Why are we only now firing up the DDN blog? Why not leap-frog the whole thing and just feed the audience in tasty little 140-character morsels?”
Tweet This: #ddn_limitless opens up in ways that press releases or twitter chirps simply can’t allow for … an...
