3 useful tools for big data log analysis

When looking around the data center, it's difficult to ignore the potential in all of the big data available from infrastructure systems. There are server and application logs, data from network and storage taps, and metadata from databases and applications. ...

VMware Updates Big Data Extensions with Hadoop 2 Support

VMware Inc. updated its Big Data Extensions (BDE) for its vSphere virtualization platform, including support for Hadoop 2. BDE's set of integrated management tools -- built into vSphere -- help organizations deploy, run and manage Hadoop. With BDE, vSphere users can ...

Big Data Consolidation Upswing Will Place Premium on Predictive Analytics

While Big Data is hardly a new topic, the generation and storage of data resulting from the social, mobile, and local and machine-to-machine convergence trend continues unabated, justifying further investigation. That is why I'm joining my colleagues at Mooreland Partners ...