Hortonworks recently unveiled the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP), which is 100% open source data management software powered by Apache Hadoop. HDP makes Hadoop easier to install, integrate, manage and use for enterprises and solution providers.
Join us for this webinar as we outline and demo the key features of the Hortonworks Data Platform, including:
Rapid Installation thanks to a wizard that makes it easy to install and provision Hadoop across clusters of machines.
Data Integration Services including Talend Open Studio for Big Data, a visual development environment that allows you to connect to hundreds of data sources without writing code.
Management and Monitoring Services including Hortonworks Management Center, which is an open source and extensible tool that provides intuitive web-based dashboards for monitoring your clusters and creating alerts.
Centralized Metadata Services, including HCatalog, which greatly simplifies data sharing between Hadoop and other enterprise data systems.
Don’t miss this opportunity to hear about Hortonworks Data Platform from the team that created it.
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Continuing Momentum, Neebula Adds Senior Cloud Leaders to Management Team
Neebula is scaling to serve its growing clientele of global enterprises, government and education customers in North America and Europe with the addition of senior leaders to its management team.
Neebula Systems, a provider of business-level service modeling, management, and automated full-stack discovery and dependency mapping solutions,has announced the addition of two senior executives – Bob Johnson, as chief marketing officer, and Ilan Shmargad, as vice president of business development.
Neebula Promotes Service-Centric IT Management to the Cloud
The process of mapping IT computing resources to business services – commonly known as “business service management” (BSM) or “IT service management” (ITSM) – is time-consuming and becomes even trickier when cloud computing gets added into the mix. Neebula is making available a preview of its SaaS-based discovery and mapping product, ServiceWatch.
Neebula Systems, a provider of business-level service modeling, management, and automated full-stack discovery and dependency mapping solutions, invites customers to preview the Neebula ServiceWatch solution in the cloud. For the first time, IT managers will be able to use a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based product to quickly and effectively discover and map IT resources – hardware and software – that make up a specific business service. This eliminates the long, labor-intensive process of installing on-premise software and then manually discovering and mapping IT resources.
The Big Data Firehose
I saw an unfortunate piece on the Harvard Business Review website the other day that allleged that marketers are “flunking” the Big Data test. The article pointed to a survey that said 89% of marketers surveyed at Fortune 1000 companies use Big Data for only 11% of their customer-related decisions.
The article also made this amazing statement, completely unsupported by any data: “in today’s volatile business environment, judgment built from past experience is increasingly unreliable.” The article went on to cite “once-valid assumptions (such as) older consumers don’t use Facebook or send text messages” that are now erroneous and can presumably sink the intrepid marketer as he or she ventures forth to serve customers.
I ask, who amongst us has ever thought Facebook was the province of the young? Hasn’t it been common (and correct) wisdom for years that a large part of Facebook’s success is based on parents and grandparents (you know, “old people”) using digital cameras and Facebook as today’s Polaroid?
Further, didn’t a generation of Baby Boomer parents get cellphones for their tweens and teens precisely so they could text them at any time to try to keep tabs on them?
The HBR article sets up a strawman argument and a false dichotomy. The fact is, Big Data as defined today is still in its infancy. Many Big Data streams are so large that the software samples it, actually using only 5-10% of it. Other Big Data apps may be set to collect something that a marketing person sees of no value for a particular campaign: the old chestnut, GIGO rears its ugly head again.
Marketing departments, particularly at large-volume, consumer-oriented companies (eg food and drink, clothing, retail) have been the most voracious consumers of data and statistics on the planet for generations now. But they like to see valid data. They like to see useful data.
Big Data is just not mature enough to meet these needs consistently. It’s not a matter of the smart person using data analytics and the stupid person using “gut feeling.” It’s a matter of all marketers using Big Data where it seems to be most relevant. And today, that’s apparently true in 11% of their decisions.
Survey: Rising Cloud Adoption Spurs Changes to IT
Not only are more businesses adopting some form of cloud technology, they are feeling better doing it. A recent survey of 500 IT decision-makers found that 85 percent felt more positive about the benefits of using cloud computing, up from 72 percent in 2011, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The survey, conducted by IT industry association CompTIA, found that more than eight in 10 companies use some form of cloud technology. For many companies, the cloud is defined by a SaaS offering like Web email, but almost a quarter reported that cloud components made up between 30 percent and 50 percent of their overall IT architecture. More than half said they planned to increase investments by 10 percent or more over the course of the year. When asked to identify the top driver for cloud implementation, 50 percent of respondents picked «Cost-cutting,» but “Simply better option” and “Modernization of legacy IT” were not far behind in votes.
Coraid Unveils EtherCloud for Software-Defined Storage
«We are excited to enable the next generation of software-defined data centers and drive complexity out of the most challenging layer of the data center today — storage,» said Anil Virmani, senior vice president of engineering at Coraid, as the Redwood City based leading developer of Ethernet-based storage solutions today unveiled its EtherCloud platform for software-defined storage.
Architecting Scalable Infrastructures: CPS versus DPS
Infrastructure metrics have always been focused on speeds and feeds. Throughput, packets per second, connections per second, etc… These metrics have been used to evaluate and compare network infrastructure for years, ultimately being used as a critical component in data center design.
This makes sense. After all, it’s not rocket science to figure out that a firewall capable of handling 10,000 connections per second (CPS) will overwhelm a next hop (load balancer, A/V scanner, etc… ) device only capable of 5,000 CPS.
Cybersecurity: A Human Problem
We’re here to help you understand the reality of the situation in order to provide insight. And like it or not, we have a Cyberwar on our hands—and as with other wars, technology defines and constrains the rules of engagement. Yesterday we may have spoken about tanks or guns; today we speak of viruses and worms. But as with traditional machines of war, the human element is every bit as important as the technology, if not more so.
The latest Cyberattack to hit the news: a worm called Gauss, a relative of Stuxnet, targeted certain Lebanese banks. Kaspersky, a Russian security firm, discovered the attack. On their blog post, the Kaspersky researchers note that “after looking at Stuxnet…, we can say with a high degree of certainty that Gauss comes from the same ‘factory’ or ‘factories.’ All these attack toolkits represent the high end of nation-state sponsored cyber-espionage and cyberwar operations, pretty much defining the meaning of ‘sophisticated malware.’” They go on to say that “this is actually the first time we’ve observed a nation-state cyber-espionage campaign with a banking Trojan component.”
Microsoft Private Cloud 2.0 – Build Your Own Infopedia
A headline theme for our next webinar will be ‘Microsoft Private Cloud 2.0′. Private Cloud Application Platform Two years ago I described an upcoming market that I initially defined as the Private Cloud Application Platform. Recently Microsoft began prosecuting this space with their PCSS initiative, the Private Cloud Solutions Suite, bringing together a partner group […]
Coraid Delivers Flash Cache Performance for Cloud Applications
Coraid on Wednesday unveiled EtherFlash Cache, a flexible programmable cache that uses solid-state drives (SSDs) to accelerate read performance for demanding server virtualization, web, database and email applications. Users can provision and then rapidly re-assign application priorities in the cache to provide a performance boost to the applications that need it most.
«The explosive growth of dynamic virtualized and cloud architectures has made ensuring application service levels ever more challenging,» said Doug Dooley, vice president, product management, at Coraid. «Software-defined storage platforms combine smart software and scale-out commodity hardware like SSDs to get the right resources to the right application at the right time. EtherFlash Cache allows operators of cloud infrastructures to dynamically apply policies and priorities to applications.»