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Chuck Hollis (@chuckhollis)
- Twitter Bio:
- technologist, marketeer, blogger and musician working for EMC.
- Location:
- Holliston, MA
- Website:
- http://chucksblog.emc.com
Chuck Hollis's Selections From the Web
I think it all starts with customer adoption, which has been quite rewarding. What I find interesting is the incredible breadth and diversity – almost every industry, customer size, geography, etc. Some storage vendors have to focus on only one or two niches; we get to work with just about everyone. And – thankfully – they’ve told us globally that they’re very satisfied with what we’re doing for them. That's strong praise from a notoriously tough crowd. Of course, there’s room to do better, which we’re always working on.Right behind that, I’m absolutely delighted with partner adoption: they’ve taken a very strong product, and added all
The amount of buzz generated by the supposed Paypal exodus from VMware to OpenStack via Business Insider has been interesting to say the least. It sort of reads like one of those Weekly World News parody articles that I used to pick up as a kid for a few laughs. For those not following the adventure, BI basically stated a quote from Boris Renski, EVP at Mirantis, that Paypal is doing a rip and replace of 80,000 servers from “VMware” to OpenStack via FUEL, beginning with 10,000 servers this summer.I use my magic quote fingers around VMware because this is almost impossible to decipher – you don’t install “VMware” on something. For example – does
Few open-source tools have enjoyed the meteoric popularity of Hadoop in building these next-generation big data analytics platforms. Even in its rawest distro form, it's eminently flexible, scalable and very cost-effective. As a result, Hadoop has quickly become the new de-facto standard for anyone doing anything in big data analytics computing.We believe that HDFS (the underlying data abstraction beneath Hadoop) will play a key role as the future "data substrate" for next-generation data infrastructure. The familiar relational database that's powered data-based processing for the last few decades will likely be subsumed around newer capabilities
Rick Smolan, the photographer and impresario of media projects, has tackled all sorts of big subjects over the years, from countries (“A Day in the Life of Australia” in 1981) to drinking water (“Blue Planet Run” in 2007). He typically recruits about 100 photographers for each, and their work is crafted into classy coffee-table books of striking photographs and short essays. But Mr. Smolan concedes that his current venture has been “by far the most challenging project we’ve done.”Massive rivers of digital information are a snooze, visually. Yet that is the narrow, literal-minded view. Mr. Smolan’s new project, “The Human Face of Big Data,” which
Anyone in the IT infrastructure business is fully aware that flash memory is redefining how we think about performance, and not just storage itself.
With most applications, you're usually performance limited by the physical challenge of getting data into (and out of) the processor; shrinking I/O latency from milliseconds to microseconds means a huge boon for anyone concerned about cost-efficient performance.
As a result, flash is redrawing the storage landscape. Flash has found its way into traditional storage arrays
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