Big Ideas: Cluster Architectures…

Inside EMC, our awesome (you really are, Patricia!) Americas/EMEA CTO Patricia Florissi along with the Global Presales team have been running this “Big Idea” series. 

It’s been posted internally (EMCers and EMC Partners) to EduTube (http://edutube.emc.com) which is a great site where we post stuff (sometimes not for “open to all” distribution), but these are TOO GOOD not to share with the world.

We’re finding that in addition to the more traditional enterprise architectures (which are moving to virtualized cloud models), there’s new sets of customer needs around new kinds of problems.   Yes, the word “Big Data” is applied to the problems as shorthand, but they are associated with a basic principle:

Big Data problems are ones who’s inherent scale causes traditional architectural models to break down.

Patricia hit this topic in this video (BTW – one of the most popular videos I’ve ever posted!) here:

The next video in the three part series is around the fundamentals of cluster architectures.  These are the architectures we’re seeing more and more every day.   They use scale-out models, presumption of failure, distributed data models, and leverage data locality to deliver smoking performance and scale.

For people who say “this is the only way to go”, or “traditional models are dead” – may I humbly suggest you stop being silly :-).    Ah – the classic problem of “if you have a narrow view of the market/technology, you will have narrow view of the world” :-)

Not all computational problems can be subdivided and distributed this way.   Those models run best on more traditional models, run on top of cloud-architected virtualized models ;-)   Hence the EMC World theme: Transform IT (cloud architectures and technologies) + Business (big data architectures and technologies) + Yourself (all the stuff we as humans need to know to harness all this change)

This video dives into these alternate computational models, architectures and how they work – in the generalized model.  The third video (up soon) covers a specific INSTANCE of this type of model, and one that is insanely popular, Hadoop.   Check it out:

Feedback as always welcome!!!  For EMCers and Partners – check out EduTube!!!

Comments

[Camilocj]

in this way or more easy!! great videos