What are the hardware and implementation options we see.A discussion ranging from direct attached storage versus network attached storage/storage area networks, to on-premise hardware versus cloud options.

00:00 Recent events

Organisations starting their Big Data Journey A lessons learned workshop for a customer after their successful pilot

Planning Masterclasses for 2016 Migration customer workshop Big Data and the Connected Car webinar (registration required)

07:30 Main Topic

Direct attached storage (DAS) or “traditional” hadoop

Network attached storage (NAS) / Storage Area Networks (SAN)

Cloud / Azure / AWS / Google Cloud / Openstack etc...

SaaS/PaaS/HaaS/HDInsight

Ceph & Gluster

ObjectStore(S3) and Other cloud storages

25:30 Questions from our Listeners:

Doesn’t having a SAN/NAS system break data locality?

Can I mix drive sizes and types within a cluster or even within the same node?

Hybrid cluster environments, how to mix cloud and on premise deployment?

Can I dedicate certain nodes to certain workloads?

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