| Wednesday, October 31, 2012 | |  | | Charles Babcock | | | Hadoop Gets Elastic Like Amazon's Cloud Hadoop running in virtual machine nodes can now expand or shrink the cluster on which it's running, while it's running. Its newfound elasticity, a result of the Serengeti Project, allows it to better match the physical resources it commands to its task load, while in the past it had to occupy a static, standalone physical cluster, whether it needed one or not. Hadoop is the distributed file management system based on MapReduce and the HDFS file system, both designed to exploit large clusters of simple, x86 hardware. Hadoop is noted for the gigabytes of data it can chomp at one time. It can serve as a host system for further big data analysis operations. But in the past, it's also been a big consumer of physical resources. Read More | | | |  | | DOWNLOAD DARK READING'S LATEST DIGITAL ISSUE Online retailers are stuck in a maze of e-business security and PCI compliance requirements. The new, all-digital special issue of Dark Reading gives you 10 Ways To Secure Web Data. DOWNLOAD NOW FREE (Registration Required) | |
 COMMENTARY Red Robin CIO Named Social Business Technology Leader By David F. Carr As a CIO whose ambitions who extend beyond technology to transformative change, Red Robin's CIO Chris Laping enthusiastically embraces the concept of social business. Social business "gets out of the hierarchy and works the network," Laping says. "To me, it's the essence of fast companies and next generation companies." When Red Robin introduced a new Tavern Burger product line in April, social collaboration technology Yammer proved to be an important part of refining the product and its delivery. "The way we thought we'd get feedback was we thought the guests would get on Facebook," Laping says. "What they did was they talked to the servers, the servers talked to the managers and the managers got on Yammer." VMware Revenues Show Cloud Worries By Charles Babcock VMware recently reported revenue growth of 20 percent in its third quarter ended September 30. It projects revenue growth for the year of around 21 percent to 22 percent. That means it will close out the year with total revenues close to $4.5 or $4.6 billion, compared to $3.8 billion last year. Pretty good for an enterprise software company facing "tough macroeconomic conditions," as co-president Carl Eschenbach phrased it. Or is it? Windows 8 Review: All About Touch By Paul McDougall Windows 8 was built for touch, and it's meant to be touched. Nay, it begs to be touched. I checked out the standard version of Microsoft's latest operating system, which debuted Friday, on Dell's new XPS 12, a slick, powerful convertible that uses Intel's robust and road-tested Ivy Bridge architecture. Here's what I found. |  JOIN THE CONVERSATION Posted By JPOLK: "Unfortunately, enterprise users will probably never see Windows 8 at work. With many companies still on Xp and only beginning to migrate to 7 and the steep learning curve for Windows 8 you'll probably see some other version come to light. All of the security enhancements are hidden under what will be perceived as a carnival atmosphere and that is what is going to keep Windows 8 off the company desk." In reply to: Windows 8: A Win For Enterprise View Entire Response | Post Your Own Reply | | NEWS & ANALYSIS REPORTS & WHITEPAPERS FEATURED REPORTS Return Of The Silos Application integration has always been a thorny problem. Add in the inherent design restrictions of software as a service--think islands, not exactly designed to exchange data--and things get even trickier. Fortunately, there are some products and best practices that can make your apps work together. And make no mistake: Integration is a pressing issue. In our InformationWeek Analytics 2011 Enterprise Applications Survey, we found 43 percent of 314 respondents are using SaaS applications. But when we asked them to rate their satisfaction with nine aspects of these apps, deployment simplicity came out on top--and ease of integrating these services with on-premises systems and data sources landed at the bottom of the list. Download Now (Registration Required)
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