There is a strong Trend in IT towards converged infrastructures. This is really the proliferation of a number of hardware vendors.

Putting their solutions together in a rack and selling it as a complete solution of Storage, Servers and Networks. Converged Infrastructure is also closely associated with Cloud computing and subsequently has a neat segway into many organisations since cloud is very much in the top trends we see. The ability to easily deploy cloud like applications all in one box will certainly tick many of the C level execs check boxes. The problem with the one size fits all approach is that actually – one size doesn’t fit all. Taking Cloud as an example you may buy the infrastructure in one hunk but then what about the tools to manage it with? How about chargeback or showback, What about DR and what about when you want to move off the tin or no longer use that company as a strategic supplier. Most customers I talk to have the resources...

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Symantec Solution for Enterprise Hadoop is an add-on for customers using Veritas Cluster File System. This easy to install software enables Cluster File System customers run Big Data analytics on their existing infrastructure without investing in a separate cluster just for analytics.

How it works

The solution works within the confines of the modular architecture of Apache Hadoop, using only the public APIs. This allows us to deliver enterprise ready Big Data solution without creating yet another competing Hadoop distribution. This works with Open Source Apache Hadoop and enables customers run standard analytics applications they would run on Apache Hadoop.

Replacing HDFS class: In this...

I've been blogging over the past couple of weeks under the theme "Everything you think you know about clustering is wrong". It's sort of a tongue-in-cheek theme, but the misconceptions I was trying to dispel are real and held by enough people that I felt they were worth addressing. But now I want to shift gears a little bit.

In my last post, I mentioned how a lot of people can't seem to break out of the late-1990s mindset of 2-node active/passive failover HA:

While large clusters meant we no longer needed two nodes for every critical application, many people's mindsets were still stuck in 1997 and they continued to view HA clustering in a 2-node, active/passive context.

To be sure, that's definitely not the case with all of our customers, especially...

Thank you all for attending the session on "Maximizing Availability in Virtualized Environments" during the SAMG Customer Forum in March 2012. I hope you would have found it useful.

We discuseed the following content during the session.

"Implementation architectures of VCS and ApplicationHA for virtualized environments. We reviewed common use cases and discussed how others are achieving maximum application availability in their virtualization implementations. This session provided information for VMWARE, Solaris Zones/LDOMs, AIX LPARs/WPARs and Linux KVM environments"

Again, thank you for your participation and hope to see you soon!

Regards,

Anish Vaidya