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How Object Storage can improve Hadoop

Posted on January 15, 2015 by George Crump

When organizations begin to explore a Hadoop initiative their goal is to create an environment that can help them make better decisions. The more data that the Hadoop environment has access to and the faster that data can be processed,…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Hadoop, HDFS, Infrastructure, Metadata, Object, Object Storage, Scale-Out
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What is Hadoop and can Object Storage make it better?

Posted on January 6, 2015 by George Crump

Hadoop, first used by large cloud providers like Yahoo, Facebook and Google, is designed to allow massive amounts of compute resources to process very large, unstructured datasets. The technology is now firmly entrenched in government agencies and is now working…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Hadoop, HDFS, Metadata, Object, Object Storage
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Object Storage Can Reduce Hadoop Storage Costs

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Eric Slack

Hadoop is an open source software framework licensed by the Apache Software Foundation that uses a distributed compute infrastructure to handle large, batch analytics jobs on very large data sets. It does this by breaking these projects down into a…

Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, Apache Software Foundation, Cleversafe, Extract transform load, Hadoop, HDFS, Hortonworks, MapReduce, NameNode, Object Storage
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Solving Hadoop Storage Challenges by Converging Storage and Compute

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Eric Slack

Cleversafe’s object-based, scale-out storage architecture leverages a unique information dispersal algorithm to distribute data objects across multiple storage nodes (called Slicestor ** nodes). These nodes can be located in a single data center or spread around the world. Using a…