Category: Datacenter

Thoughts on Infrastructure Lifecycle Management

Over the years I had the fortunate opportunity to design, implement, enhance or operate a multitude of IT infrastructures, ranging from “bare-metal” physical datacenter to highly abstracted “pseudo” infrastructures offered by Public Cloud.

What I began to realize is that, while the inner workings of physical and cloud infrastructures are vastly different, the methodologies used for managing infrastructure lifecycle are absolutely the same. Continue reading “Thoughts on Infrastructure Lifecycle Management”

Designing for scalability with the Dell | Hadoop solution

Over the last months I’ve been having conversations with a lot of Hadoop users and developers. I’m glad to see that everyone wants to run Hadoop 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”