Video: Accelerating Big Data over RDMA

In this video from the 2013 Open Fabrics Developer Workshop, Sreev Doddabalapur from Mellanox presents: Accelerating Big Data over RDMA. You can check out more OFA videos at our Open Fabrics Workshop Video Gallery.

Video: Warp Mechanics ZFS Array

In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Josh Judd from Warp Mechanics presents: Warp Mechanics ZFS Array. The WARP Mechanics 39830 is a turnkey network-attached non-volatile RAM + SSD system with industry-leading price, performance, and scalability. This system maximizes the IOPs performance for the most demanding application profiles. It is an ultra-dense […]

Trifecta of Big Data, Analytics, Cloud Responsible for Enterprise Software Growth According to IDC

This week IDC released the latest results from its Worldwide Semiannual Software Tracker. Despite only modest gains last year in the worldwide software market, certain specific areas showed strong growth.  According to IDC, the management and leveraging of information for competitive advantage is driving gains in markets associate with Big Data and analytics. For 2012, […]

Video: Lustre on Amazon Web Services

In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Robert Read from Intel presents: Lustre on Amazon Web Services. You can check out more Lustre presentations at our LUG 2013 Video Gallery.

Big Data Upending H.R. Conventional Wisdom

For decades human resource management has been a field that relied on policies and procedures, leavened by healthy doses of intuition. But Big Data is standing H.R. on its head – many of the old assumptions are either being called into question or totally discarded. Writing in The New York Times, Steve Lohr chronicles a […]

Video: Hadoop MapReduce over Lustre

In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Omkar Kulkarni from Intel presents: Hadoop MapReduce over Lustre. You can check out more Lustre presentations at our LUG 2013 Video Gallery.

SGI Infinite Storage Gateway Appliance Implements DMF in Minutes

Today SGI announced the InfiniteStorage Gateway, an appliance that delivers virtualized data management to lower the cost of high volume storage. Why an appliance? SGI’s Floyd Christofferson described it as a way  to “install DMF within minutes and enable greatly simplified storage management for Big Data.” The SGI InfiniteStorage Gateway reduces the dependency on high-cost […]

Job of the Week: Data Analyst at PC Doctor

PC Doctor in Reno is seeking a Data Analyst in our Job of the Week. The Data Analyst will have the following responsibilities: Provide strategic data insights, including extensive data exploration, abstraction, visualization, and interpretation of trends and patterns complex data sets. Glean insights from and distribute relevant industry data, communicating informed conclusions and recommendations […]

Video: How CERN Handles Big Data from the LHC

This video looks at how Big Data is handled from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC produces millions of collisions every second in each detector, generating approximately one petabyte of data per second. None of today’s computing systems are capable of recording such rates, so sophisticated selection systems are used for a first fast […]

Video: The Sequoia Supercomputer and the ZFS OSD

In this video from the Lustre User Group 2013 conference, Christopher Morrone from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory presents: Sequoia and the ZFS OSD. Check out more presentations at our LUG 2013 Video Gallery.