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S3A is Hadoop's new S3 adapter that allows you to connect your Hadoop cluster to any S3 compatible object storage. Here are three advantages to using Apache Hadoop® on Object Storage vs. traditional scale-out storage, and how you can build a better data lake today.

We are now shipping the latest product in our capacity enterprise HDD product line, the 8TB Ultrastar® DC HC320, providing...

Western Digital eliminates platters to deliver better value! Even with Western Digital's advancements in the SSD business, we remain committed...

Hadoop technology just turned 10, and has gained tremendous momentum. But some components of the traditional architecture are coming of age, and a new approach to Hadoop architecture is emerging.

Organizations trying to embark on the Big Data journey are often confronted with infrastructure challenges. Prasad Venkatachar shares testing results of a new Hadoop solution leveraging Cisco UCS servers and Fusion ioMemory™ from SanDisk.

As object storage models are becoming more popular, applications such as video surveillance and near real-time analytics are pushing the limitations of traditional spinning media.

The demand for higher-capacity, higher-performing systems is driving us toward the third phase of the Big Data revolution.

Within our SanDisk® labs, I conducted a number of experiments with Apache Hadoop and SanDisk flash, mainly our CloudSpeed Ascend...

In today’s hyper-connected world, there is a significant amount of data being collected, and later analyzed to make business decisions....

In my first blog post on the SanDisk® ITBlog, I talked about testing the Terasort benchmark using SanDisk CloudSpeed SSDs...

Apache Hadoop is gaining popularity and traction in a variety of industries, due to its ability to manage and process...