While Big Data has been thought of as large stores of data at rest, it can also be about data in motion.
Of the 3 «V’s” of Big Data – volume, variety, velocity (we’d add «Value” as the 4th V) – velocity
has been the unsung ‘V.’ With the spotlight on Hadoop, the popular image of Big Data is large petabyte data stores of unstructured data (which are the first two V’s). While Big Data has been thought of as large stores of data at rest, it can also be about data in motion.
«Fast Data” refers to processes that require lower latencies than would otherwise be possible with optimized disk-based storage. Fast Data is not a single technology, but a spectrum of approaches that process data that might or might not be stored. It could encompass event processing, in-memory databases, or hybrid data stores that optimize cache with disk.
Fast Data is nothing new, but because of the cost of memory, was traditionally restricted to a handful of extremely high-value use cases.
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Teradata Claims to Put Wings on Big Data Analytics
Teradata, the doyen of the Big Data set, has got a new purpose-built appliance for SAS high-performance analytics that uses an in-memory approach for hyper-fast results.
In other words, it distributes complex analytics in parallel across a vast pool of memory looking for patterns in large volumes of data.
It reportedly whittled what would normally have been a 167-hour project in financial risk analysis at some Wall Street bank or another down to 84 seconds.
Teradata claims other customers can expect as much and expects it to “kick competitive butt.” It claims IBM, Oracle and SAP, which have their own in-memory systems, “lack the foundational analytics.”
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Cloud Expo New York: A New Programming Paradigm for the Cloud
The cloud has raised the bar and changed the game for software development. However, the current software development paradigms are fundamentally introverted and rooted in a siloed approach to development. The cloud provides an opportunity for the emergence of a silo-free and elastic programming paradigm that is built to automatically scale and enable inside-out integration at its core.
In their session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Ash Massoudi, CEO & Co-Founder of NextAxiom Technology, and Sandy Zylka, VP Products & Technology and a Co-Founder of NextAxiom, will discuss the seven defining characteristics of this elastic programming paradigm and their implications.
Strategic Approach to Disaster Recovery and Data Lifecycle Management
Business standards and compliance services provider SAI Global is benefiting from a strategic view of IT enabled disaster recovery.
When we started to get into DR, we handled it from an IT point of view and it was very much like an iceberg. We looked at the technology and said, «This is what we need from a technology point of view.» As we started to get further into the journey, we realized that there was so much more that we were overlooking.
We were working with the businesses to go through what they had, what they didn’t have, what we needed from them to make sure that we could deliver what they needed. Then we started to realize it was a bigger project.
Cloud Computing: Fabled Google Drive Arrives, Creates Rights Panic
Google finally introduced its long-trumpeted cloud-based Google Drive Tuesday hours before Apple released its Q2 results.
Drive happens to compete with iCloud and Apple’s results, which could have been, shall we say, edgy, turned out to be over-the-top.
Drive also competes with Microsoft’s SkyDrive, Dropbox, Box, Amazon’s Cloud Drive and SugarSync.
Google says Drive users will get 5GB of free online storage for videos, photos, songs, files and PDFs that they can upload, create, edit, view, sync, share by way of different rights, collaborate on, get notifications, recognize scanned files, store, search (by word, owner, even some images to a point) and access from anywhere from PCs, Macs and Android devices (Gmail, iPhones, iPads, Chrome OS and Linux to come).
Fuel Your Cloud with Metered, Virtualized Middleware at Cloud Expo NY
Traditional middleware is not suitable for the Cloud; it’s simply too complex and it doesn’t provide a pay-per-use charge model.
In their general session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, Ash Massoudi, CEO & Co-Founder of NextAxiom Technology, and Sandy Zylka, VP Products & Technology and a Co-Founder of NextAxiom, will discuss a new middleware paradigm for developing and integrating applications: metered, virtualized middleware. The virtualized attribute allows you to easily build and run new applications in the cloud reusing existing on-premise application functionality.
The metered attribute has two aspects: it provides a usage-based charge model for the middleware and it provides a built-in, metered charge model, much like electricity, for your new applications.
SaaS and the Rise of PaaS
While on the road at CloudCamp DC, I had the opportunity to interview long time friend and cloud expert JP Morgenthal (Principal Solutions Architect from EMC).
We talked Clouds, Hybrid, Federation, SaaS and the rise of PaaS, moving toward a services based architecture/economy.
Control and Secure the Cloud with Confidence at Cloud Expo New York
In the early years of cloud computing, the idea was just to get there – to start achieving some of the promised efficiencies. But now, as cloud initiatives mature, the focus has turned to ensuring data security and privacy – no small feat, given the range of threats and global regulations organizations encounter.
In their session at the 10th International Cloud Expo, George Gerchow, Director of VMware’s Center for Policy & Compliance, and Tom McAndrew, Executive Vice President of Professional Services at Coalfire Systems, will cover the security and privacy challenges in a cloud environment.
VCs Spend $6.9 Billion on Cloud Startups
Venture capitalists devoted $6.9 billion in 2011 to cloud startups, which is an increase of 68% over 2010, according to this InformationWeek article. Author Patrick Houston recommends that enterprises develop a rigorous process for vetting IT cloud tools and vendors now to prepare yourself for the onslaught of new cloud services that will be coming soon.