IBM: The Optimal Storage Platform for Big Data

There is a lot of hype around the potential of big data. Organizations are hoping to achieve new innovations in products and services with big data and analytics driving more concrete insights about their customers and their own business operations. To learn more download this white paper.

Ryft ‘s Open Platform Aims to Supercharge Analytics Performance by Eliminating I/O Bottlenecks

The new Ryft ONE open platform from Washington, D.C., area–based Ryft Systems Inc. aims to supercharge performance on even the most challenging analytics workloads with a balanced architecture. Download this white paper to learn more.

The hidden costs of open source

Clusters based on open source software and the Linux® operating system have come to dominate high performance computing (HPC). This is due in part to their superior performance, cost effectiveness and flexibility. To learn more download this white paper.

Cisco and NetApp Deliver Simplified, Affordable Disaster Tolerance Solutions for SAP HANA Deployments

This document describes Cisco® and NetApp solutions that support disaster-tolerance capabilities for SAP HANA deployments. This comprehensive approach encompasses synchronous and asynchronous replication, a point-in-time backup strategy, and protection of data against corruption. Because management of disaster scenarios requires coordination, the Cisco and NetApp solution handles the failover of servers, networking, and storage components to quickly activate a disaster-recovery site.

Object Storage for Dummies

Object Storage is a technology whose time has come. Exponential increases in the volumes of data being stored, the growing importance of metadata, the need for global access, and a transition to distributed cloudbased applications have pushed traditional block- and file-based storage beyond the breaking point.

Lab Validation Report – NetApp Distributed Content Repository

NetApp Distributed Content Repository is a comprehensive solution to an organization’s unstructured data storage and archiving challenges and an easy path to handling big content in a private or public cloud. The solution is built upon NetApp StorageGRID software, running on industry standard x86 servers (virtualized for availability and flexibility) and NetApp E2600 series storage platform. Learn more by downloading this white paper.

Five big data challenges And how to overcome them with visual analytics

Big data is set to offer companies tremendous insight. Data visualization is becoming an increasingly important component of analytics in the age of big data. access to information in a form they can easily understand and share with others. This begs the question: How do you present big data in a way that business leaders can quickly understand and use? Learn more by reading this white paper.

InsideBIGDATA Guide to In-Memory Computing

In-memory computing is an emerging field of importance in the big data industry. It is a quickly evolving technology, seen by many as an effective way to address the proverbial 3 V’s of big data—volume, velocity, and variety. Big data requires ever more powerful means to process and analyze growing stores of data, being collected at more rapid rates, and with increasing […]

From Yawn to YARN: Why You Should be Excited About Hadoop® 2

By now almost everyone has heard the story of the yellow elephant who never forgets data, consumes whatever data you have from any source, and magically produces a big data treasure trove of business insights for you, including tweets, telemetry, customer sentiment, sensor readings, mobile app activity, and more!  In fact, the story has been told and re-told so many […]

InsideBIGDATA Guide to Big Data Business Solutions in the Cloud

In this Guide, we take a look at what Lustre on infrastructure AWS delivers for a broad community of business and commercial organizations
struggling with the challenge of big data and demanding storage growth. Learn more by downloading this Guide.