Cloudera, Hbase, Sqoop, Flume, Oozie . . Flux Capacitor?

Posted on February 14, 2012 by JohnGilroy

Cloudera

There is a hamburger franchise that started in Virginia called “Five Guys.” In order to understand Cloudera, you should think of it as “Four Guys.”  Take a seasoned veteran, Mike Olson, and superstars Omer Trajman, Jeff Hammerbacher, and Dr. Amar Awadallah and you get the four founders of Cloudera.  http://www.cloudera.com

What’s the common denominator?  A knowledge of how to leverage open souce Hadoop to handle massive and complex amounts of data. Cloudera has the ability to help organizations handle unstructured data and make sense of it. Listen to the Federal News Radio interview here http://bit.ly/xqa2AK

Mike Olson Cloudera

Mike Olson, CEO of Cloudera

If you put a group of engineers in a room, you get some unusual names for utilities.  Cloudera uses tools like MapReduce, Hive, Pig, HBase, Sqoop, Flume, Oozie, Hue, and, let’s not forget Zookeeper.  Each one of these tools allows you to get the most your of your investment in Apache Hadoop-based software and services.

 

Nerdometer Mike Points
1 Year of your first computer 1977 10
2 Year of your first cell phone 1991 0
3 Twitter feed? Y 10
4 Blog? corp 5
5 Online personal backup? y 10
6 Flavor of smartphone? Android 10
7 Number of apps? 36 5
8 Tablet device do you own? iPad 10
9 Social networking sites? FB LI TW 10
10 Last book you read . .elec? paper 5
Score 75
Rank (because of  #125 Apple II) Nerd
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Solarwinds, cloud migration, and. . . . thwack?

Posted on February 7, 2012 by JohnGilroy

SOLARWINDS

Solarwinds is a company in Texas that focuses on user centric network management. You can go to their web site and download several free tools as a test drive – these are primarily management tools for, servers, logs, virtualization, as well as storage. Listen on Federal News Radio here: http://bit.ly/plOPU6

Today’s interview with Josh Stephens from Solarwinds went down some unexpected paths. The first twist was a community of users that Solarwinds supports.

Josh Stephens

Head Geek at Solarwinds

This community is called “thwack.”  The curve ball is that this is an unmoderated forum.  You may want to discuss patching operating systems sitting on servers. You may want to complain about a Solarwinds product.  You may ask, how can that succeed? Well, in the past twenty four hours, there were 114 new members. Total membership is over 125,000.

If you are scratching your head about moving an application to the cloud, Solarwinds can provide tools that can help.  What happens when you want to move from one cloud ecosystem to another? What happens if when you want to move back to those servers sitting in your data center?

Nerdometer Josh Points
1 Year of your first computer 1985 10
2 Year of your first cell phone 1993 5
3 Twitter feed? Y 10
4 Blog? corp 5
5 online personal backup? Rackspace 10
6 Flavor of smartphone? iPhone 10
7 Number of apps? 100+ 10
8 tablet device do you own? iPad 10
9 social networking sites? LI FB 10
10 last book read . . . elec? elec 10
Score 90
Rank Geek

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An “Odd Couple” for 2012 : Oracle + open source

Posted on January 25, 2012 by JohnGilroy

OracleMovement to the cloud has made for some strange bedfellows.  For most of the past three decades, I have identified Oracle with a license-based approach to database solutions.  Looks like the mountain is moving to the cloud. Today’s interview is with Peter Doolan, the Group Vice President and Chief Technologist for Oracle Public Sector.  Listen here : http://bit.ly/plOPU6

Peter Doolan

Peter Doolan, Oracle

Peter talks about starting off programming for systems with as little as 64K of memory –one was rewarded for being efficient. Well, today’s Oracle’s Big Data Appliance has 864 GBB of memory!  You may think this makes developers lazy — but with the size of data sets today (64MB – 256MB !), developers are being forced to using efficient code the way it was used in the 1970′S.  Today, we are swamped with data – from sensors, smart phones, and even smart meters.  Traditional data works well with relational databases — the name, address, and zip code stuff.  But today, our information may include data from not only email, but sensors, smart meters, social network sites, and smart phones.    Not only massive, today’s data is also categorized by variety and rapid change.

What is also interesting about this product is that it uses an open source tool called Hadoop.  During the interview Peter gives a good description of what Hadoop does as it is combined with the offerings from Oracle.

Nerdometer Peter Points
1 Year of your first computer 1981 10
2 Year of your first cell phone 1990 5
3 What is your Twitter feed? Y 10
4 What is the title of your blog? N 0
5 Online personal backup? Y 10
6 Flavor of smartphone? iPhone 10
7 Number of apps? 100+ 10
8 Tablet device? iPad/Kindle 10
9 Social networking presence? FB LI 10
10 The last book you read .. . elec? elec 10
Score 85
Classification Geek
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Putting the “intel” in business intelligence

Posted on January 19, 2012 by JohnGilroy

GuidentIt’s one thing to move to the cloud. Now . . . how do you make sense with all the data that now resides in your public, private, or hybrid cloud?

Guident has been working with the concept of business

Dan Ackerman

Dan Ackerman, Executive Vice President

intelligence since 1996.  Today’s interview is with two executives from Guident — Excutive Vice Peresident (and one of the founders) Dan Ackerman and Vice President Ken Raffel.

One interesting aspect of the interview is trying to draw the line between “business intelligence” and “predictive analytics.”  One approach is to say that business intelligence is in the past and predictive analytics is in the future.

The big data proponents maintain that ALL the data is required to make a decision – what about statistical analysis?  Listen here if you would like to hear a discussion on this topic http://bit.ly/wp5YDB

 

Nerdometer questions Ken Points
1 Year of your first computer 1985 10
2 Year of your first cell phone 1998 10
3 What is your Twitter feed? N 0
4 What is the title of your blog? Y 5
5 What do you use for online personal backup? N 0
6 Flavor of smartphone? iPhone 10
7 Number of apps? 50 5
8 What kind of a tablet device do you own? N 0
9 What social networking sites do you participate in? FB LI 0
10 The last book you read . . . Paper or electronic? Paper 0
Score 40
Classification wannabe
 Nerdometer questions Dan Points
1 Year of your first computer 1992 10
2 Year of your first cell phone 1994 10
3 What is your Twitter feed? N 0
4 What is the title of your blog? N 0
5 What do you use for online personal backup? N 0
6 Flavor of smartphone? iPhone 10
7 Number of apps? 50 5
8 What kind of a tablet device do you own? multiple 10
9 What social networking sites do you participate in? LI 5
10 The last book you read . . . Paper or electronic? Paper 0
Score 50
Classification wannabe
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Zeta-bytes or Zeta-Jones?

Posted on January 11, 2012 by JohnGilroy

DLT SolutionsI have been in and out of radio studios for over two decades and this is the first time I have heard the word “zeta byte.”  That either means the FCC will be knocking on my door OR 2012 ushers in the world of big data.

David Bankenhorn has not been with DLT Solutions for decades, but is no stranger to the disk drive.  In fact, during the interview he mentioned the size of hard drive on his first server; a sure sign of a devotee.   David’s company (DLT Solutions) is the largest federal re-seller for Oracle and Red Hat. So, when Dave talks about big data, he has earned the right to have strong opinions.

David Blankenhorn

Chief Cloud Technologist, DLT Solutions

Listen here: http://bit.ly/zdC6cu

Dave’s title is “Chief Cloud Technologist.”  Five years ago that title didn’t exist.  However another Dave, Dave Linthincum, http://bit.ly/zPdv06 says a job title like Cloud Services Architect, Cloud Migration Specialist, and Cloud Security Specialist will be in demand job skills for 2012 and beyond.

If you are interested in “data sovereignty” or “terms of service” in relation to a service level agreement for the cloud, you will get a good exposition during this interview.

What would a cloud discussion in 2012 be like in Washington, D.C. without a mention of the new federal cloud guy, Steven VanRoekel. He gets his fifteen seconds of fame.

 

Nerdometer David Points
1 Year of your first computer 1979 10
2 Year of your first cell phone 1989 10
3 What is your Twitter feed? at Dblankenhorn 10
4 What is the title of your blog? http://blogs.dlt.com/ 5
5 What do you use for online personal backup? Dropbox 10
6 Flavor of smartphone? iPhone 10
7 Number of apps? 100 10
8 What kind of a tablet device do you own? iPad 10
9 What social networking sites do you participate in? FB LI 5
10 The last book you read . . . Paper or electronic? Elec. 10
Score 90
Rank Geek

 

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