Author Archives: AD

Enterprise SaaS Challenges

Posted on May 24, 2013 by AD

I’d like to share with you some of my thoughts about the challenges that Enterprises are facing when attempting to leverage the SaaS service model. As always, your comments are welcome! Top challenges:   Data Access   Integration   Operations

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Product Design vs. (cloud) Service Design – what’s the difference?

Posted on April 16, 2013 by AD

From what I’ve been reading lately, it looks like, among other goals, any Cloud Service Provider wants to excel in at least three key areas: Quality of service Customer experience Competitive offering

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The difference between Scaling Up and Scaling Out

Posted on April 14, 2013 by AD

Scale up (or vertically) means adding more resources to an existing component of a system. Adding more RAM and/or hard drives to a Hadoop DataNode is an example of scaling up the Hadoop cluster. Scale out (or horizontally) means adding … Continue reading →

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@Nokia Now!

Posted on July 6, 2012 by AD

Hello everyone! Sorry for the long absence – I’ve been busy with my new gig at Nokia. After decades of designing products I decided to cross to the ‘dark side’ and get closer to Operations. It’s something that I meant … Continue reading →

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Designing for scalability with the Dell | Hadoop solution

Posted on October 7, 2011 by AD

Over the last months I’ve been having conversations with a lot of Hadoop users and developers. I’m glad to see that everyone seems to want to move forward with Hadoop and put it in production. Most of the practitioners also … Continue reading →

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Dell OpenStack & Hadoop Podcast on CloudCast.net

Posted on August 24, 2011 by AD

Last week I joined my colleagues Rob Hirschfeld (RAH, @zehicle, http://robhirschfeld.com/) and Joseph George (JBG, @jbgeorge, http://jbgeorge.net/) in a conversation with the CloudCast crew talking about Dell’s leadership in two of the hottest technologies in the market today – OpenStack … Continue reading →

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Impressions from 2011 TDWI Conference, San Diego, CA

Posted on August 12, 2011 by AD

Last week I had the privilege to go to the TDWI World Conference in San Diego. I went to talk about our Hadoop solution that we announced last week, meet with press analysts and get a good feel for what … Continue reading →

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Introducing the Dell | Hadoop Solution

Posted on August 4, 2011 by AD

The Dell | Hadoop solution, offered in conjunction with Cloudera and called Dell | Cloudera Solution for Apache Hadoop, lowers the barrier to adoption for businesses looking to use Hadoop in production. Dell’s customer-centered approach is to create rapidly deployable and … Continue reading →

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Hadoop/EDW Integration session at OSCON 2011

Posted on August 2, 2011 by AD

Last Monday, July 25th, I gave a presentation at OSCON about the integration between Hadoop and the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW). The session was well attended. I thought that the dialog and the exchange of opinions and ideas was very … Continue reading →

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Big Data Analytics Challenges in Enterprise

Posted on June 28, 2011 by AD

The adoption of Big Data Analytics in the Enterprise can deliver huge benefits but also presents equally important challenges. Adopting Big Data Analytics is both an opportunity and a concern. Several examples are in order:

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