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Object Storage a ‘Total Cop Out,’ Hammerspace CEO Says. ‘You All Got Duped’

The mass adoption of object storage systems like Amazon S3 may appear to be a top achievement of the big data era, since we got essentially unlimited storage accessible through REST commands. But to Hammerspace CEO David Read more…

What Can GPFS on Hadoop Do For You?

The Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) is considered a core component of Hadoop, but it’s not an essential one. Lately, IBM has been talking up the benefits of hooking Hadoop up to the General Parallel File System (GPFS). IBM has done the work of integrating GPFS with Hadoop. The big question is, What can GPFS on Hadoop do for you? Read more…

HPC Analysts: Hadoop is a Tall Tree in a Broad Forest

This week, Datnami is in the very interesting city of Leipzig, Germany as we attend the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC’13) to cover the big data trends at the high performance level. It’s only been a day, but one of the messages from the show floor that has been resonating is that big data is bigger than many people think it is - namely, it’s bigger than just Hadoop. Read more…

RAID on Enterprise Big Data

This week RAID Inc.'s CTO released a detailed report on the benefits of parallel file systems for high performance computing and big data environments. In addition to providing differences between GPFS and Lustre, the research describes the overall benefits of each. Read more…

IBM Cranks Turbine Decisions

IBM revealed details about how their big data technology, including system, analytics and file system technologies are working to help a Danish wind energy company make sound turbine decisions. Read more…

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