The analytic stack below is a result of discussions with many of my colleagues at EMC, VMware, and Pivotal:
This stack represents a six layer architecture for building a cloud-scale framework for running analytic applications, from the storage layer all the way up to applications running on mobile devices.
The architecture builds off of the X-and-Y axis paradigm that I’ve introduced in recent posts. This paradigm infers that building cloud-scale analytic architectures are challenging given that the distance between the apps and the storage is continually growing, and the horizontal span of the data is widening.
I also pointed out in a recent post that traditional data center architectures are now trying to do three things at once by adding analytic capabilities to their existing data centers. In fact, the chart below describes the growth in analytic workloads that is projected on top of the X- and Y-axis infrastructure.
If it’s true that application workloads drive innovation, then the six architectural areas described above will exhibit interesting new functionality as customers begin piecing them together for next-generation data centers supporting analytic architectures.
I will dive into these six layers in future posts.
Steve
Twitter: @SteveTodd
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