Bigstep Adds Spark Service to Bare-Metal Cloud

A Spark-based analytics engine released last week runs on a low-latency, software-defined bare metal fabric and can scale Spark clusters and the IT infrastructure that supports them. Bigstep, which has dual headquarte Read more…

Bare Metal or the Cloud, That is the Question…

ROI is one of the big hurdles that organizations face when deciding to jump into the Hadoop big data lake. One of the big questions at the outset of a deployment is whether to “roll your own” on bare metal, do something in between, or jump full-bore into the clouds. Each of these options is fraught with their own set of concerns and challenges. Read more…