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SanDisk® Spins Up New Cloud Storage for the Next Era in Cloud Computing

SanDisk® Spins Up New Cloud Storage for the Next Era in Cloud Computing

[Blogger’s note: No Hard Disk Drives were harmed during the writing of this blog] Mark Twain once said: “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” I am almost certain, but not 100% positive, he was referring to those who still believe the next era in cloud computing […]

May 31, 2015 • 3 min read Data

SanDisk® is Cloudera Certified! Hadoop with Confidence

SanDisk® is Cloudera Certified! Hadoop with Confidence

Within our SanDisk® labs, I conducted a number of experiments with Apache Hadoop and SanDisk flash, mainly our CloudSpeed Ascend SATA Solid State Drives (SSDs). The initial experiments were with standard Hadoop benchmarks, namely the Terasort and the TestDFSIO benchmarks. These benchmarks helped show me how SanDisk SSDs helped boost the performance of the Terasort […]

November 10, 2014 • 3 min read Data

Flash-Accelerated Apache HBase

Flash-Accelerated Apache HBase

In today’s hyper-connected world, there is a significant amount of data being collected, and later analyzed to make business decisions. This explosion of data has led to various technologies that can operate on this “Big-Data”, technologies for Big-Data Analytics. Traditional database systems and data warehouses are being augmented with newer scale-out open-source technologies like Apache […]

November 3, 2014 • 4 min read Data

Faster Hadoop Reads and Writes with SanDisk® SSDs

Faster Hadoop Reads and Writes with SanDisk® SSDs

In my first blog post on the SanDisk® ITBlog, I talked about testing the Terasort benchmark using SanDisk CloudSpeed SSDs within an Apache Hadoop data-analytics environment. The blog and the more detailed technical paper that followed talked about the significant performance and TCO benefits that can be achieved by strategically using SSDs within a Big-Data […]

September 11, 2014 • 4 min read Data