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Analyze This! Big Data | Apache Hadoop | Dell | Cloudera | Crowbar
This article about Target using buying patterns to expose a teen was pregnant before she told her parents puts big data analysis into everyday terms better than the following 555 words (of course, I...
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Cloudera Manager Barclamp posted! (part of updated Dell | Cloudera Apache...
My team at Dell has been driving to transparency and openness around Crowbar plus our OpenStack and Hadoop powered solutions. Specifically, our work for our coming release is maintained in the open on...
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Crowbar v1.3 Release adds Cloudera Hadoop & RHEL/Centos 6.2. Preps v1.4 for...
I’m very pleased to post we’ve cut the 1.3 Crowbar release! 1.3 Release Highlights (branch “elefante”) Introduction of Cloudera 3.7 Hadoop Barclamp New Operating System versions: Ubuntu 11.10, RHEL...
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We need an OpenStack Reference Deployment (My objectives for Deploy Day)
I’m overwhelmed and humbled by the enthusiasm my team at Dell is seeing for the OpenStack Essex Deploy day on 5/31 (or 6/1 for Asia). What started as a day for our engineers to hack on Essex Cookbooks...
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Crowbar deploying Dell | Cloudera 4 | Apache Hadoop
Hopefully you wrote “Cloudera 3.7″ in pencil on your to-do list because the Dell Crowbar team has moved to CHD4 & Cloudera Enterprise 4.0. This aligns with the Cloudera GA announcement on Tuesday...
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Crowbar Celebrates 1st Anniversary
Nearly a year ago at OSCON 2011, my team at Dell opened sourced “Crowbar, an OpenStack installer.” That first Github commit was a much more limited project than Crowbar today: there was no separation...
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In scale-out infrastructure, tools & automation matter
Scale out platforms like Hadoop have different operating rules. I heard an interesting story today in which the performance of the overall system was improved 300% (run went from 15 mins down to 5...
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Crowbar lays it all out: RAID & BIOS configs officially open sourced
Today, Dell (my employer) announced a plethora of updates to our open source derived solutions (OpenStack and Hadoop). These solutions include the latest bits (Grizzly and Cloudera) for each project....
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OpenCrowbar.Anvil released – hammering out a gold standard in open bare metal...
I’m excited to be announcing OpenCrowbar’s first release, Anvil, for the community. Looking back on our original design from June 2012, we’ve accomplished all of our original objectives and more. Now...
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