The Definitive Guide to Evaluating Cloud-based Apache Spark Platforms

This guide is designed to help you focus on your overall company goals. Do you want to build and manage your own Spark environment or leverage the best possible choice on the market? Find a solution you can use as an effective tool for the real work of getting business value from big data analytics. To learn more download this definitive guide to evaluating cloud-based Apache Spark platforms.

Configuration for Big-Data-as-a-Service

This white paper describes a new solution for Big-Data-as-a-Service combining the BlueData EPIC (Elastic Private Instant Clusters) software platform with the HPE Elastic Platform for Big Data Analytics (EPA). BlueData is transforming how enterprises deploy their Big Data applications and infrastructure. To learn more about Big-Data-as-a-Service download this white paper.

Data Warehouse Trends Report 2017

Amazon re:Invent is always a rewarding experience, providing not only opportunities to demonstrate Panoply’s automated data warehouse solutions to thousands of IT professionals, but also to gather feedback from industry professionals, as a means to gauge cloud-industry trends and understand the market’s most pressing needs. In that spirit, the company conducted a survey during our […]

The GridGain In-Memory Data Grid

This white paper provides an overview of in-memory computing technology with a focus on in-memory data grids. It discusses the advantages and uses of in-memory data grids and introduces the GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric. Finally, it presents a deep dive on the capabilities of the GridGain solution. To learn more download this white paper.

Data Warehouses Ascend to the Cloud

Should the data warehouse be deployed on the cloud? IDC addresses this question on a regular basis. As adoption of cloud software increases, organizations of all sizes across industries and geographic regions are evaluating and assessing the opportunities and challenges of deploying software on the cloud. Data warehousing solutions are no exception to this trend.

Teradata Cloud: Analytics in Action

This paper documents the experiences of nine Teradata Cloud customers based on anonymous interviews with knowledgeable persons. The table below lists the companies, along with their specific challenges.

Cloud Adoption in Your Community

In conference rooms worldwide, enterprise IT departments are evaluating entry into ‘the cloud’. Armed with media reports and marketing materials, they are considering questions like, “Is the cloud appropriate for critical workloads? Will the cloud really save time and money? Does the cloud pose a security risk?”
There’s only one problem with such due diligence: there’s no such thing as ‘the cloud’. Instead, there are multiple clouds, with different configurations, offered by different providers and representing different degrees of benefit and risk.

IBM Under Cloud Cover Study

Simply put, it’s an evolution. Cloud computing is following the same pattern of other technologies that have shaped business and society. Take electricity, for example. Even after the first public power supply lit the streets, it took time for businesses to learn how to really capitalize on this new technology. In those early days, people were enthralled by artificial lighting – one of the earliest applications of electricity. Very few could fathom the innumerable product innovations, business models and industries that would ultimately be built upon this technology.

OpenStack Storage with IBM

This paper reviews the increasingly popular OpenStack cloud platform and the abilities that IBM storage solutions provide to enable and enhance OpenStack deployments. But before addressing those specifics, it is useful to remind ourselves of the “whys and wherefores” of cloud computing.

Intel Cloud Edition for Lustre Software

With Intel Cloud Edition for Lustre software, users can easily add, remove, or reconfigure AWS resources to match their workloads and budgets for optimal return on investment. In addition, new applications are being designed and deployed exclusively onto the AWS infrastructure for unmatched total cost of ownership (TCO).