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Big Data: The Hadoop Business Case

CTOvision

The term “Big Data” has become synonymous with this evolution. But still, many of our customers continue to ask, “What is Big Data?”, “What are its use cases?”, Oracle, Teradata, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, EMC, etc). What is Big Data? This definition was published in an article entitled “What is Big Data?”

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Book review: Rethinking Enterprise Storage by Microsoft/Storsimple Marc Farley

Storage IO Blog

Book review: Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model by Marc Farley The O’Reilly @oreillymedia media folks (oops, excuse me, Microsoft Press) sent me out (that’s a disclosure btw) an real soft cover print copy of Rethinking Enterprise Storage – A Hybrid Cloud Model by Marc Farley aka @MicroFarley of Microsoft/Storsimple (..)

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Technology News and Hot Topics

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Big Data Product Watch 10/17/14: Big Three Make Big Moves. — dominated Big Data news this week, while the third, MapR Technologies Inc., — dominated Big Data news this week, while the third, MapR Technologies Inc., Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the Cloud, Gender Equality.

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VMware Cisco EMC VCE Zen and now server storage I/O convergence

Storage IO Blog

For those not familiar or who need a recap, VCE was created to create converged server, storage I/O networking hardware and software solutions combing technologies from its investors resulting in solutions called vBlocks.

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DIY converged server software defined storage on a budget using Lenovo TS140

Storage IO Blog

Do you need or want to do a Do It Yourself (DIY) build of a small server compute cluster, or a software defined storage cluster (e.g. scale-out), or perhaps a converged storage for VMware VSAN, Microsoft SOFS or something else? Then the TS140 could be a fit for you.

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Microsoft Diskspd (Part II): Server Storage I/O Benchmark Tools

Storage IO Blog

Talking about tools and technologies is one thing, installing as well as trying them is the next step for gaining experience so how about some quick hands-on time with Microsoft Diskspd (download your copy here).

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Server and Storage I/O Benchmark Tools: Microsoft Diskspd (Part I)

Storage IO Blog

Microsoft Diskspd is a synthetic workload generation (e.g. benchmark) tool that runs on various Windows systems as an alternative to Iometer, vdbench, iozone, iorate, fio, sqlio among other tools.

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