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Bret Piatt (@bpiatt)
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- Work: Racker & OpenStacker, Cloud Computing, Computer Security / Hobbies: Golf, Food, Wine, Finance, Economics, Politics
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- San Antonio, Tx
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- http://www.bretpiatt.com/blog/
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Hadoop World Rackspace Hosting has spent the past two years helping craft the OpenStack cloud control freak and getting it running its public and private cloud services. And now, to get more of the IT wallet, Rackspace wants to peddle more services atop OpenStack, whether it is humming in your shop or in its own glass houses. And one of the first services that Rackspace wants to plunk on top of OpenStack with a price tag on it is, not surprisingly, the Hadoop big data muncher.As a proponent of full open source cloud control software, it is not surprise at all that Rackspace has partnered up with Hortonworks rather than Cloudera, MapR Technologies,
Deploying, managing and running a large-scale, enterprise private cloud is not an easy task. One of our goals here at Rackspace is to make it easier for you to deploy and run clouds.To ease the shift to the cloud, we’ve partnered with leading hardware and software providers to create three new Private Cloud Open Reference Architectures built for enterprise-class, highly-scalable clouds. Those reference architectures are:The cloud is a paradigm shift that affects IT operations and introduces an entirely new business model; therefore defining Open Reference Architectures is an essential step towards achieving cloud maturity. Through these reference
Most interesting modern applications need fast and scalable cloud storage. Cloud storage is used in a variety of scenarios, from rich and video-intensive websites designed by media agencies for global brands, to enterprises running SharePoint and looking to reduce the size of the SQL Server database by offloading content to the cloud, to vendors of cloud archiving and data retention solutions.
The selection of your cloud storage platform is not something to be taken lightly, especially because it deals with your data. On one hand, you have proprietary platforms. These platforms effectively hold your data hostage because of lock-in,
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