Platform Computing Blog

Hadoop MapReduce low latency matters! BGI Shenzen wins IDC Innovation Award

Thu June 28th, 2012

Last week IDC released the winners for the HPC Innovation Excellence Awards. As per IDC’s announcement, BGI Shenzen saved millions of dollars while enabling faster processing of their large gen...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2012/06/hadoop-mapreduce-low-latency-matters.html

The win in Monaco and a hot season continues

Mon June 11th, 2012

Mark Webber's winning dive into the pool, he's mid air! As Red Bull Racing prepares for their upcoming race events, a recent highlight was at the Monaco Grand Prix where the team won the ...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2012/06/win-in-monaco-and-hot-season-continues.html

Infrastructure Cloud Strategies

Tue April 10th, 2012

San Francisco, Monday Feb 20th, evening. I'm wondering what path most Platform customers will take to the cloud over the next decade, and perhaps more interesting, what will the intermediate step...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2012/04/infrastructure-cloud-strategies.html

And the winner is... Jaguar Land Rover for business IT project of the year!

Thu November 24th, 2011

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http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/11/and-winner-is-jaguar-land-rover-for.html

Big Data report from SC’11

Wed November 23rd, 2011

In my previous blog I expressed high expectations for the Big Data-related activities at this year’s Supercomputing conference. Coming back from the show, I’d say the enthusiasm and knowledge...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/11/big-data-report-from-sc11.html

Linux Interacting with Windows HPC Server

Tue November 15th, 2011

There are many interesting technology showcases at SC’11 this week. One of the Birds of a Feather sessions this week will discuss a solution implemented at Virginia Tech Transportation Institut...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/11/linux-interacting-with-windows-hpc.html

Wading throughthe Pre-SC’11 HPC News

Fri November 11th, 2011

Big Data’s Big Show at SC’11

Wed November 9th, 2011

It’s less than a week away, everyone in the HPC community are drumming up for SC’11. As someone who has been to SC for the past seven years, I was pleased to see that Big Data appears to be t...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/11/big-datas-big-show-at-sc11.html

Blog Series – Five Challenges for Hadoop MapReduce in the Enterprise, Part 5

Thu November 3rd, 2011

Challenge #5: Lack of Multiple Data Source Support With this blog entry, we have reached the final chapter of the Hadoop challenge series. In this blog, I am going to discuss the fifth challenge ...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/11/blog-series-five-challenges-for-hadoop.html

Blog Series – Five Challenges for Hadoop MapReduce in the Enterprise, Part 4

Wed October 26th, 2011

Challenge #4: Lack of Quality of Service We are back after a short break. The challenge with the current implementation of Hadoop MapReduce continues. In this blog let’s take a look...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/10/blog-series-five-challenges-for-hadoop.html

Why Combine Platform Computing with IBM?

Tue October 18th, 2011

You may have read the news that Platform Computing has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by IBM and you may wonder why. I’d like to share with you our thinking at Platform and what o...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/10/why-combine-platform-computing-with-ibm.html

Taming Big Data – A Recap of the O’Reilly Strata Conference

Fri October 7th, 2011

O’Reilly Strata, a conference dedicated to data science, held its second meeting of the year from September 22 – 23 in New York City. The conference drew close to 500 attendees, includi...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/10/taming-big-data-recap-of-oreilly-strata.html

ISC cloud 2011

Fri September 30th, 2011

Congratulations to Rick Parker – a Platform Customer, Partner and SuperNova Semifinalist!

Wed September 28th, 2011

Over the past year, I’ve had the pleasure of working closely with someone I regard as a true visionary when it comes to IT management and unlocking the power of private cloud computing. I am re...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/09/congratulations-to-rick-parker-platform.html

One small step for man, one enormous leap for science

Tue September 27th, 2011

News from CERN last week that E may not, in fact, equal mc2 was earth shattering. As the news broke, physicists everywhere quivered in the knowledge that everything they once thought true may no ...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/09/one-small-step-for-man-one-enormous.html

IDC HPC User Forum – San Diego

Tue September 27th, 2011

Blog Series – Five Challenges for Hadoop MapReduce in the Enterprise, Part 3

Mon September 26th, 2011

Challenge #3: Lack of Application Deployment Support In my previous blog, I explored the shortcomings in resource management capabilities in the current open source Hadoop MapReduce runtime imple...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/09/blog-series-five-challenges-for-hadoop_26.html

VMworld Signage - "Are You Cloud Intense?"

Wed September 21st, 2011

VMworld always attracts some interesting booth strategies and signage. We were highlighted as being one of the most innovative with our "Are you Cloud Intense?" theme on our shirts and boot...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/09/vmworld-signage-are-you-cloud-intense.html

The Release of Platform HPC 3.0.1 Dell Edition

Mon September 19th, 2011

Last week, Platform HPC 3.0.1 Dell Edition was released. One of the significant features of this release is the support of high availability for management nodes on the latest version of Red Hat ...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/09/release-of-platform-hpc-301-dell.html

Platform MapReduce v1.5 brings enhanced functionalities to MapReduce runtime

Wed September 14th, 2011

We are pleased to announce that Platform Computing 1.5 is now available. Compared to its predecessor, Platform MapReduce v1.0 released in late June, the newly released version brings...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/09/platform-mapreduce-v15-brings-enhanced.html

Best of VMworld Award for Private Cloud Management

Tue September 13th, 2011

One of the fun elements at VMworld is participating in the “Best of VMworld” awards. Platform Computing entered the Private Cloud Management category against 15+ vendors. After se...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/09/best-of-vmworld-award-for-private-cloud.html

Top 5 VMworld 2011 Takeaways for Private Cloud

Fri September 9th, 2011

4 days. 115 degrees outside. 20,000 of my closest virtualization friends. VMworld Las Vegas was quite an experience. The Platform Computing booth was busy from start to fi...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/09/4-days.html

HPC from A - Z (Part 26) - Z

Thu September 8th, 2011

Z is for… Zodiac The wonders of the universe will remain of interest to the human race until the end of time or at least until we think we know everything about everything. Whichever comes firs...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/09/hpc-from-z-part-26-z.html

Blog Series – Five Challenges for Hadoop MapReduce in the Enterprise, Part 2

Wed September 7th, 2011

Challenge #2: Current Hadoop MapReduce implementations lack flexibility and reliable resource management As outlined in Part 1 of this series, here at Platform, we’ve identified five significan...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/09/blog-series-five-challenges-for-hadoop.html

HPC from A-Z (part 25) - Y

Tue August 30th, 2011

Y is for… yield strength Think how many children play with plasticine and Play-Doh and day dream about being an artist or a sculptor when they grow up. The majority of adults actually follow di...

http://platformcomputing.blogspot.com/2011/08/hpc-from-z-part-25-y.html