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:

1.   Data Access
2.   Integration
3.   Operations

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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:

1. Quality of service
2. Customer experience
3. Competitive offering

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

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 new components (or building blocks) to a system. Adding a new Hadoop DataNode to a Hadoop cluster is an example of scaling out the cluster.

Continue reading: The difference between Scaling Up and Scaling Out

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 to do for a long time and I’ve been holding out for the right opportunity. Finally that opportunity came along! I’m now part of the CCOD Data Center Infrastructure Architecture team, responsible for server designs for various High Performance, Cloud and Big Data solutions.

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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 realize that, although Hadoop can scale, there are no clear guidelines that describe how to scale up/out Hadoop from very small to very large

Continue reading: Designing for scalability with the Dell | Hadoop solution

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 and Hadoop.

First, my hat off to the CloudCast folks (Aaron Delp @aarondelp, blog.aarondelp.com, and Brian Gracely @bgracely, briangracely.com) for putting on a great show!

Second, here are some of the highlights from Episode 16: Dell, Dude you’re getting a cloud

Continue reading: Dell OpenStack & Hadoop Podcast on CloudCast.net

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 is going on in this space.

Continue reading: Impressions from 2011 TDWI Conference, San Diego, CA

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 highly optimized end-to-end Hadoop solutions running on commodity hardware. Dell provides all the hardware and software components and resources to meet the customer’s requirements and no other supplier need be involved

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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 good. Few of the dialogs continued after the session which (once again!) indicates that managing Big Data is top of many practitioners’ mind.

I personally enjoyed the dialog and I also learned quite a few things! Thanks O’Reilly for another successful OSCON

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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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