Tag Archives: batch processing

Hadoop – part 1

Posted on June 8, 2011 by Ray

BIGData is creating quite a storm around IT these days and at the bottom of big data is an Apache open source project called Hadoop. In addition, over the last month or so at least three large storage vendors have … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with tape?

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Ray

Was on a conference call today with Oracle’s marketing discussing their tape business.  Fred Moore (from Horison Information Systems) was on the call and mentioned something which surprised me.  What’s missing in open and distributed systems was some standalone mechanism … Continue reading →

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