Compuware Corporation on Wednesday announced that Compuware APM for Big Data now offers enhanced support and out-of-the-box dashboards that enable organizations to optimize big data projects through unmatched visibility into Hadoop, NoSQL and Cassandra deployments. Now organizations have deeper insight into big data workloads and transactions to quickly find the root cause of slow jobs and failures in minutes, instead of hours or days.
Enhancements for Hadoop enable operations teams to gain deep insight into the most active users in a cluster with automatic profiling of intensive jobs. Problem patterns, including data shuffle across the network, can be quickly identified as well as resource utilization and tracking to enable charge-back models.
Monthly Archives: March 2014
AppDynamics APM at Morgan Stanley Technology Conference
AppDynamics, Inc. (AppDynamics), the next-generation application performance management (APM) solution that simplifies the management of complex applications and infrastructures, today announced that the company’s founder and CEO Jyoti Bansal and CFO Walter Berger will be presenting at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference 2014 being held in San Francisco on Tuesday, March 4, 2014. Details are as follows:
Analyzing the Impact of Cloud Computing on the IT Department
Modern innovations in networking technology, virtualization, Big Data processing, storage, and analysis, along with cloud computing, are giving new shape to the information technology realm of today and the future.
Organizations have, for many years, effectively sourced a number of non-core business functions to outside service providers.
Marketing, accounting, customer service, sales and administrative staffing are just a few examples of such outsourcing; today, organizations can also get computing services on demand in virtually any location, and tailor those services to their specific needs. Such “micro outsourcing” can apply to functions such as processing, storage, software, security, and support.
Shifting The Storage Paradigm | Part Two: The Role of Object Storage
In part one of this three-part series I summed up how the way we produce and consume data has evolved over the last three decades, creating a need for new storage methodologies that can help enterprises store and effectively manage massive pools of data. I concluded that the immutable nature of unstructured data storage holds the key to solving the scalability and availability problems of traditional file storage.
Unstructured data has traditionally been stored in file-based systems, which enable users to access files simultaneously and modify them. This is great functionality for office environments, where multiple users might indeed be updating each other’s spreadsheets, but it is complete overkill when storing data that will probably never be changed again. DDN developed our Web Object Scaler (WOS) solution with this “unchanging” aspect of data in mind.
Microsoft Appoints Hanu Software to Azure Partner Advisory Council (PAC)
Hanu Software on Monday announced that it had been selected by Microsoft to participate in the Azure Partner Advisory Council, making it one of only 22 partner organizations worldwide to be asked to provide insight and guidance to Microsoft in the continuing development of the Windows Azure cloud platform.
According to Microsoft, the purpose of the council is to “organize a “go to” cross-geo and cross-business model partner advisory council to gain constructive insights and to improve our mutual position in the market.” Participation in the Azure Partner Advisory Council will give Hanu key opportunities to influence the future development of the Azure service.
NaviSite and Zensar Technologies Partner
NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company, has announced a strategic partnership with Zensar Technologies, a global software services and infrastructure management provider. Together the companies will leverage their expertise to support clients looking to evolve their businesses through cloud-based managed services including application management, end user computing, and data center services.
NaviSite and Zensar together bring unmatched expertise in cloud services and IT infrastructure management to businesses around the world in industries like healthcare, manufacturing and retail. The partnership enhances these service offerings and better equips customers around the world to transform their mission critical business processes, IT and data center infrastructures, and workplace and mobile computing strategies through managed cloud services, resulting in better efficiency and lower total cost of ownership. Now organizations that have been handicapped by legacy data center solutions can seamlessly migrate from their existing infrastructure to NaviSite Managed Services.
NaviSite Named to CRN’s “Top 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors” List
NaviSite, Inc., a Time Warner Cable Company, has announced it has received two leading industry awards from CRN: the Data Center 100 list, which recognizes the top 100 data centers, and the Top 100 Coolest Cloud Computing Vendors list, which recognizes the top 100 most innovative and creative cloud vendors. These awards cement NaviSite’s position as a leader in delivering secure cloud-based storage technology and solutions, as well as in developing innovative and creative solutions to help customers and partners maximize the flexibility, scalability and cost savings possible through cloud technology.
Big Data. The Tools That Work
In the past 10 years, numerous solutions have been developed to deal with limitations in the leading relational databases. But knowing which offering works best per use case can be difficult to decipher.
Avi’s usual recommendation for Hadoop-type jobs is the MapR distribution. He have found that MapR is similarly priced but offers higher performance and a native NFS interface to Hadoop that can perform at hundreds of gigabits at scale, utilize 24 to 90 disks (depending on CPU and RAM), and allow basic Unix tools to be used for analyzing subsets of data in a more ad-hoc fashion. At the end of his session, Avi will make recommendations based on common use cases, data back ends, and application requirements.
Secure Corporate Content in the Cloud within a Connected Mobile Ecosystem
The evolutionary nature of mobile presents a security-centric challenge for businesses with corporate content on these devices. Enterprises put themselves at risk when users access sensitive information through email and applications across smartphones and tablets, while mobile. Organizations can choose to ignore this security threat or enhance employee productivity through secure corporate containers.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Eric Owings, an enterprise account executive at AirWatch®, will discuss best practices and strategies to ensure global security and workforce enablement by leveraging enterprise mobility management (EMM) across the enterprise. He will also provide attendees with a deeper understanding of enterprise mobility in a connected ecosystem, while ensuring security and compliance in the cloud.
Brother Takes Mobile Office-Tech Beyond the Cloud
Taking office technology to a new level, Brother is preparing to showcase its latest mobile-focused innovations – and has literally gone beyond the clouds and into space.
The office tech specialist’s newest technology is designed to meet the demands of today’s mobile savvy workforce – so office functions like printing, digitising and virtual conferencing are more accessible.
Simon Stones, Senior Manager, S&S Commercial from Brother International Europe (BIE), said: “We are making giant leaps to ensure technology is available when and where it is needed. Taking this to the extreme – children at venues across Japan have communicated in real-time with an astronaut during a space mission, using our OmniJoin web conferencing platform[1] – proving just how powerful today’s office technology can be.