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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…

Object Storage Industry Veteran Cleversafe now Supports Hadoop

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Eric Slack

OBS has been a hot topic of late, and rightly so, it’s a technology whose time has come. The advantages it brings to companies facing extreme data growth, often referred to as ‘hyper-scale’ environments, are pretty remarkable. Basically, object storage…

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…