Benchmarking Sahara-based Big Data as a Service solutions

Sahara provides a way to build Big Data as a Service on OpenStack, but there are many options and considerations. This presentation introduces our work on benchmarking various solutions, including VM vs. container vs bare-metal, HDFS vs. Swift, and a few others. This was conducted on latest Intel hardware platforms and will provide insights into… Continue reading Benchmarking Sahara-based Big Data as a Service solutions

ClusterHQ Secures $12M Series A Funding to Expand Docker and Container Ecosystem

ClusterHQ™, The Container Data People™, today announced a $12 million Series A funding round led by Accel Partners London, with participation from Canaan Partners as well as existing investors. ClusterHQ will use the funds to expand technical and go-to-market resources to help organizations use containers in production. The funding represents the largest Series A investment… Continue reading ClusterHQ Secures $12M Series A Funding to Expand Docker and Container Ecosystem

AWS Webcast – Amazon EC2 Container Service Deep Dive

Container technology, particularly Docker, has been very popular over the last year. At AWS, our customers have been running Linux containers at scale for several years, and we are increasingly seeing customers adopt Docker, especially as they build loosely coupled distributed applications. However, to do so, they have had to run their own cluster management… Continue reading AWS Webcast – Amazon EC2 Container Service Deep Dive