Posted on October 26, 2013, by Goran Čandrlić | 6 minute read
It seems like last week and the week before that were full of Hadoop-related product release news. Derrick Harris at GigaOM says that this is a continuing trend for couple of years now: "Big data, and Hadoop specifically, is the new cloud computing. Not in functionality, of course, but in strategic importance — if you’re an IT vendor and you don’t have a Hadoop story, you’re not trying," he says.
They do a nice sum up at GigaOM of lately released Hadoop-related products such as Hortonworks Data Platform, Savvis and Virtustream partnership with Hadoop, Splice Machine SQL-on-Hadoop database, EMC/VMware spinoff Pivotal, Skytree pushing the idea of machine learning on big data with Hadoop, Oxdata's predictive analytics service, and more.
Read the full article here.
Solera Networks, the leading provider of Big Data security analytics and advanced threat protection, released an infographic about advanced hacker threats and their consequences. The research responds nicely to the latest cloud security and cybercrime concerns.
"You have a 69% chance of falling victim to cybercrime in your life-time," the research reveals. "That's almost 3 out of 4 people in countries around the world."
The infographic further explores how do hackers get your information, what are the tactics for hacking user accounts online, how many accounts get compromised approximately in a single attack, what are the most targeted websites and more.
Find the full infographic here.
Between 2007 and 2010, a social reader service called Streamy existed. The founders since went separate ways, but now they have re-partnered and relaunched a product, somewhat modified and named Streamy Lite, to become a fully functional social reader service. Streamy Lite is up and running on a five-node Hadoop cluster.
"In 2007, Streamy was a social news reading platform consisting of a several Big Data applications: content crawling and aggregation, social activity streams, realtime messaging, and deep personalization," the welcoming page says, "in 2013, we spent a couple weeks building the aggregation and personalization apps using Continuuity Reactor." Should this fill a gap that Google Reader left? No, according to the founders. But the user experience will be improved over time, and what Streamy is exactly made to show off just what's possible by using Continuuity's platform, a platform-as-a-service, or an application server for big data.
Read more here and here.
Cloudyn, Enstratius, RightScale and Puppet Enterprise are top tools that can help you manage the cloud, cut costs and use your resources most efficiently, claims Elizabeth Phillips at CloudTweaks.
Cloudyn offers several tools exclusively focused on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud but will soon include Microsoft Azure, GoGrid and Rackspace. It helps with financial plans and cloud investments. Enstratius helps you to easily manage each enterprise-class application in an effective manner, whether in a public, private, or a hybrid cloud. RightScale has been around since 2006 and has helped launch millions of servers. Finally, Puppet Enterprise is the IT automation software that allows for the ultimate management experiences in the cloud or on-premises.
Find out more about the tools here.
"All too often, companies migrate apps without using cloud-native features essential to achieving the expected performance," says Linthicum at InfoWorld. "These application migration projects move from older Microsoft and Unix-based platforms to comparable cloud-based systems, with PaaS or IaaS as the targets. The idea is to get the code up, get the data up, get it recompiled and retested, and you're done -- but that's not the reality."
Applications need to go through a certain transformation during the migration to the cloud to function cost-effectively on the cloud computing platform. If they don't optimize the platform, they are compromising it. In a cloud computing world, a poorly migrated cloud-based application is considered a "dog", explains Linthicum: "The good news is that it's an easy fix: Take time to focus on the applications. Make modifications to ensure that the application can take advantage of powerful cloud-based platform features. A bit of time, planning, redesign, and coding go a long, long way."
Read the full article here.
