2013 promises to be a banner year for Apache Hadoop, platform providers, related technologies – and analysts who try to sort it out. I’ve been wrestling with ways to make sense of it for Gartner clients bewildered by a new set of choices, and for them and myself, I’ve built a stack diagram that describesContinue reading “Stack Up Hadoop to Find Its Place in Your Architecture”
Category Archives: Mapreduce
Amazon Redshift Disrupts DW Economics – But Nothing Comes Without Costs
At its first re:Invent conference in Late November, Amazon announced Redshift, a new managed service for data warehousing. Amazon also offered details and customer examples that made AWS’ steady inroads toward enterprise, mainstream application acceptance very visible. Redshift is made available via MPP nodes of 2TB (XL) or 16TB (8XL), running Paraccel’s high-performance columnar, compressedContinue reading “Amazon Redshift Disrupts DW Economics – But Nothing Comes Without Costs”
Diary of an Asian Swing: Day 1
I’ve never been a diarist. But as an exercise, I’m going to document this trip: two weeks on the road to Asia and Australia. Almost all work, though there is one day of weekend and recovery time built in. Friday, Nov 2. Cathay Pacific flight to Hong Kong. Business class. Comfortable, well-appointed cabin. Friendly, courteousContinue reading “Diary of an Asian Swing: Day 1”