Are you following the darkness? No, not the glam rockers — the regular night-time variety. It used to be that people talked of following the sun, by which they meant passing tasks from site to site around the world — California to Singapore to Ireland, say — so there was always someone awake in their [...]
How Revolutionary is IT?
Jul 2, 2012 by Leave a Comment
The word “revolution” has two interesting yet somewhat contradictory definitions. One the one hand, it means “a sudden, complete or marked change in something.” On the other hand, it means “a procedure or course that goes back to a starting point.” The first definition implies something groundbreaking and new. The American revolution, which is being [...]
Big Data Needs Big Optimization
Jun 19, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In a post that I made on my Network World blog, I spoke about the challenges of running Hadoop over the WAN. What I didn’t get a chance to cover is why Silver Peak optimization is such a great complement to big data, like Hadoop. Hadoop requires a predictable, low-latency network, which is why most [...]