Tag: Appliance
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Hadoop Update
There are a few articles collecting dust in my feed reader from a period a couple months ago when I didn’t have much time staying up to date on what’s happening… here’s the rundown of the most important stuff about Hadoop. What Factors Justify the Use of Apache Hadoop? Hadoop Appliances? Hardware for Hadoop Why…
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Oracle Database Appliance
Exadata Mini is the Oracle DB Appliance (ODBA?), as Oracle announced now. It turns out that Oracle’s new small appliance isn’t really an Exadata Mini-Me. Rather, the Oracle Database Appliance is — well, it seems to be a box with an Oracle DBMS in it. Plus Oracle RAC and so on. via Oracle Database Appliance…
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Oracle Introduces Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion Rack
You don’t have to wait for long… Oracle Introduces Oracle Exadata Storage Expansion Rack, just days after I blogged about it at Forthcoming Oracle Appliances. Configurations from half rack to several full racks can be combined for massive storage. Interesting that Oracle wants us to use this not only for relational data but all sorts…
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Forthcoming Oracle Appliances
Curt Monash about Forthcoming Oracle appliances, based on information from Oracle’s earnings call (full transcript) last week. There will be an IMDB appliance based on TimesTen for high speed analytics, and a Hadoop appliance for MapReduce jobs, targetted at data preprocessing and feeding into Oracle. It really looks like Oracle is full steam ahead on…
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Nutanix Google-like Storage Architecture
At times it’s difficult to judge what things are really about. Look at the following announcement by the folks at Nutanix. They got Aster Data, Google File System and Oracle Storage Layer (incl. Exadata, they say) background, but what’s the point of this appliance? Hope we’ll soon here more from them. The key to Nutanix…
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Acunu NoSQL Appliance
GigaOm reports that Big Data Startup Acunu Raises Small Funding. These guys (based in London) are building a HW appliance with SSD for a variety of NoSQL stores, currently supporting Cassandra and an Amazon S3 compatible RESTful interface. The Acunu Storage Core is an open source next-generation storage stack built from the ground up for…
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Windows Azure Platform Appliance
Microsoft formally announced its Windows Azure Platform Appliance today, as TechCrunchIT reports. Dell, eBay, Fujitsu, and HP intend to deploy the appliance in their datacenters to offer new cloud services. While that’s nice to know, I’m much more interested to hear by when we can get our own appliance, and what the configuration sizes and…
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