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Lessons to Take Away While You’re At SC12

November 12, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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With Supercomputing 2012 underway this week, Datanami published a fantastic article with insights into the top 20 lessons from 20 different sessions that enterprise IT decision makers should take away with them. The original article is quite lengthy so here is each point presented more simply with links to the events on the website. If you are attending SC12 remember to stop and see us in the booths of our partners CoolIT (Booth 4629) and Intel (Booth 2511) It's crucial to have an overall … [Read more...]

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Information Warfare at Data Center World 2012

October 1, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Data Centers - Battleground for Information Warfare

Things have been rather quiet in the news for this fall's Data Center World, which kicked off this morning in Nashville. Tennessee. Although the normal data center players like Schneider Electric and Raritan are there (among many others), the opening keynote called upon security, IW, and cyber-terrorism expert Winn Schwartau. Corporate data centers are the front line in an escalating battle between electronic attackers and defenders, and must be vigilant about defending their perimeter, … [Read more...]

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Floating the Elephant – Hadoop’s Continued Emergence

August 8, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Big Data – Hadoop Elephant

With the rise of big data we continue to see the growing importance of Hadoop as one of the premier big data infrastructures. Not only is it a powerful framework for reliable, scalable, distributed computing and data storage, but it's also a very affordable solution. As an open-source platform, Hadoop is quite accessible to users and user groups of all sizes. If you are new to Hadoop, essentially it is a software framework designed for handling large sets of data. This type of data … [Read more...]

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Hortonworks and Hadoop Production Distro

June 12, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
Hortonworks Block Diagram

Haven't heard of Hortonworks? Well you've no doubt heard of Yahoo! It was from Yahoo! that Hortonworks was born. The company was created a year ago from the spinout of the Yahoo! engineering team behind the open source MapReduce method of processing large sets of data. And derived from MapReduce is the increasingly-prominent Hadoop, which has just seen its first production release of what will be the flagship Apache Hadoop distribution. Hadoop is open source software that enables … [Read more...]

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Future Trends in HPC, part 2

December 29, 2011 by · 2 Comments

This is a continuation of our look at future trends in high performance computing. In part 1 we covered the first five of the top ten trends. In this installment we'll wrap up with the remaining five. … [Read more...]

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