Hadoop fails to live up to the promise and the hypeThe cost and complexity of

#Hadoop, the #opensource #bigdata framework first developed at #Yahoo for analyzing large data sets, is a total failure that costs too much and is too much of a headache to implement, say people in the field. In a lengthy and in-depth piece on #Datanami, big data experts describe Hadoop as too primitive for any kind of complex processing work or interactive, user-facing applications. At best, it's a batch process job, which is how Hadoop started out. It doesn't seem to have grown beyond it.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3185559/storage/hadoop-fails-to-live-up-to-the-promise-and-the-hype.html

Introducing FreeNAS Corral: The World’s First Open Source Hyper-converged Storage Platform

The driving principle behind everything we do at #iXsystems is the belief that #OpenSource technology has the power to change the world through its process of open and collaborative innovation. With #FreeNASCorral (formerly FreeNAS 10), iXsystems unveils the next generation of the world’s most popular Open Source software-defined storage appliance. Only a new name could do justice to the sheer amount of change and new functionality here, including user-friendly virtualization and 100% compatible #Docker container support. FreeNAS Corral is 100% free and Open Source, building on the success of the FreeNAS Open Source project. FreeNAS Corral is fully committed to the Open Source development model, being based exclusively on Open Source technologies, and its storage services are designed to be fully compatible with FreeNAS 9.10. Its many enterprise-grade features include a rewritten middleware architecture, a modern graphical user interface, support for Docker containers, its own built-in hypervisor that supports virtualization with full ZFS integration, and a powerful command line interface that can be used to control every aspect of the FreeNAS Corral software. At iXsystems, delivering innovative solutions to the world of Open Source is our passion!

http://www.freenas.org/blog/introducing-freenas-corral-worlds-first-open-source-hyper-converged-storage-platform/

Why Open Source Is The Future of Software-Defined-Infrastructure

Gone are those days when proprietary hardware boxes ruled the roost within data centers. We are propelling towards a very differently-architectured data center where software plays the key role. The era of 'Software-Defined-Everything' is upon us! It thus comes as no surprise that enterprises are opting for Open Standards and technologies as their preferred choice for software platforms and operating systems. A recent research paper from IDC states that 85 percent of the surveyed enterprises globally consider Open Source to be the realistic or preferred solution for migrating to Software-Defined-Infrastructure. IDC also recommends to avoid vendor lock-in by deploying Open Source solutions. Interestingly, this shift isn't a recent trend. Data centers have long been leaning towards Open Source technologies. Industry reports suggest that the Unix party is coming to an end in the data center space, with the adoption of Linux growing at a healthy 15 to 20 percent year-over-year. We have witnessed that the Unix adoption is sliding considerably among Indian enterprises as well. The increased use of Virtualization technologies and Cloud has only accelerated this shift. A significant number of large enterprises and SMBs in India already have Open Source technologies embedded in their mission critical platforms.
http://businessworld.in/article/Why-Open-Source-Is-The-Future-of-Software-Defined-Infrastructure/07-11-2016-107860/

Big Open Source Week for EMC - Part 1: OpenStack

This week is the OpenStack summit in Tokyo - EMC is there with bells on :-)

I’m not there, but there are many people on the team there… It was interesting to watch the keynote and reflect on the nature of an Open Source ecosystem at work.

In particular - the rapid movement of projects from emergent into deployment, and how the community iterates around them.  

The Project Navigator (screenshot below, link here) is interesting in how it shows maturity and adoption of various parts of the project.   Something useful for the rest of the market (us included) to emulate, IMO.   

Now, if you scroll down further - you can see where more work is needed (Ironic, Sahara, Trove, Ceilometer) - but again, like it or not, the community will keep cranking on it.  

I’ve always used StackAlytics to look at how people (including us are contributing) - which is great, but it’s great to get a summary view across the entire community how things are being used and adopted.

In my experience - I still see customers struggling with OpenStack more than I see customer flying - but the ratios are turning as the ecosystem keeps improving the stack, tightly packaging (interesting to see what @blueboxjesse and the IBM crew are doing).   I think we can keep doing more (within EMC, and within VMware) to keep making getting down to business faster and easier.

So - what is EMC doing at Tokyo (distinct from the VMware contributions which are extensive, including but not limited to VMware Integrated Openstack aka VIO)?

A lot:

• Core contributions.   You can see what we’ve contributed to Cinder and more in Liberty - there’s a lot!
• We’ve always done OK with platform drivers for Cinder for things like VMAX and VNX, but a big step forward is that that ScaleIO drivers are embedded in the Liberty release.   ScaleIO has been supported, but these things don’t fly until the drivers are directly included.   In ScaleIO’s scale, this means that important part of ScaleIO are simply… included versus needing to get them from us.
• Based on customer requests - the always awesome EMC{code} team we’ve created two Mirantis Fuel Plugins for ScaleIO - one for pure installs, and one for attaching to pre-existing ScaleIO SDS clusters.  Yes, for those of you