Hadoop vendor MapR and data center automation startup Mesosphere have created an open source technology called Myriad, which is supposed to make it easier to run Hadoop workloads on top of the… Read more »
Building applications in today’s world involves a lot of work assembling, managing and monitoring all of those various components that need to come together across myriad environments. To help with this… Read more »
There was a major shakeup in the world of container-based computing this week when operating system provider CoreOS decided to get into the container space with a new open source project… Read more »
Earlier this month, Facebook announced a new data center networking architecture that it calls, fittingly, “data center fabric.” We had Facebook Director of Network Engineering Najam Ahmad on the Structure Show… Read more »
Inspired by Google’s famous approach to resource management, Apache Mesos is the open source software that manages the large pools of servers and cloud instances at companies such as Twitter and… Read more »
Marathon is a new framework that turns Mesos — a favorite of Twitter — into a more dynamic tool for running different applications on a single set of machines. Marathon comes… Read more »
Like all most web companies, Airbnb is trying to provide a better user experience by analyzing lots and lots of data. Here’s how the company built its big data infrastructure atop… Read more »
Following a shakeup in the executive ranks at Symantec, the security vendor is now turning its attention to the big data craze and has partnered with HortonWorks, bundling the startup’s Hadoop… Read more »
From Facebook to Johns Hopkins University and from Alcatel-Lucent to Procter & Gamble, organizations are coping with the challenge of processing unprecedented volumes of data. Read more »