Posts by Steve Todd

I've been writing about the creation of a new IT infrastructure that's more suitable for mobile, social, and analytic applications (and some of the problems that will be likely). At the core…

Over the last few posts I've described an infrastructure that is highly compatible with new mobile, social, and analytic applications: the data lake infrastructure. After introducing the topic I dove…

In a recent post I discussed some of the issues encountered in the data center when attempting to build horizontal data services across a server-based storage infrastructure. Backup, mobility, replication,…

In recent posts I've discussed a simplified data lake architecture that is starting to appear more frequently. This architecture enables the development of faster analytic applications by balancing an in-memory…

In Data Lake, Simplified a simple picture of an emerging infrastructure was presented: in-memory data grids on top of HDFS. The reason for this new infrastructure is that "second platform" (e.g.…

I enjoyed reading the Data Lake Dream article in Forbes (written by Edd Dumbill). The very first paragraph, for me, contained some illuminating statements about the value of a data…

I've written a few posts describing the basics of a data analytic stack, including the CloudFoundry layer, and the mobile layer. The main value proposition of Pivotal's stack, as I've…