Striking Hadoop OIL a Second Time
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Striking Hadoop OIL a Second Time

One of the announcements that caught my eye at the August San Francisco VMworld was the Hadoop Starter Kit released by EMC's Open Innovation Lab. Customers already using Isilon and…
Strategies for IoT
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Strategies for IoT

In my last post I shared the application axis concept. This graphic on the left highlights application distance; mobile devices driving I/O into an IT infrastructure will experience latencies as…
The Application and Data Axes
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The Application and Data Axes

During the past few months I have met frequently with visitors to EMC's Executive Briefing Center. The goal of these meeting was usually to discuss the current state of the…
Designing Metadata Workloads
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Designing Metadata Workloads

In the past few months I've been taking a look at varied applications workloads and their impact on the underlying IT infrastructure. The classic application workload, pictured on the left,…
MCx: Affine Way to Core Affinity
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MCx: Affine Way to Core Affinity

When EMC bought the mid-range CLARiiON storage system in 1999, there were two main reasons: (a) It was fast (mirrored write cache), and (b) it was rock-solid reliable (RAID5 algorithms).…
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