Blog posts tagged
"Hadoop"

8 posts

Tim McNamara
8 January 2020

Data Ops at petabyte scale

Article Cloud and server

Should you deploy Apache Spark to Kubernetes? Learn how model-driven operations have enabled one data engineering team to evaluate several options and come to an ideal solution.

Tim McNamara
8 January 2020

Andrew McLeod
19 October 2015

Juju Big Data at Strata+Hadoop World

Article Cloud and server

Earlier this month, myself and Kevin — another member of the Juju big data team — attended the 2015 Strata+Hadoop World conference in New York City. As my first big data conference since joining the Juju team, it was an impressive experience, both running the competition pod at our Canonical booth and hearing speakers go

Andrew McLeod
19 October 2015

John Dolen
8 October 2015

Ubuntu with IBM Power Systems LC models for big data

Article Cloud and server

Juju makes it easy to model and deploy Spark and other analytics solution bundles IBM has extended its range of Ubuntu supported systems with today’s announcement of the Power Systems LC models. Canonical, along with fellow OpenPOWER Foundation members – Mellanox, NVIDIA, Tyan and Wistron, collaborated with IBM on the...

John Dolen
8 October 2015

Canonical
14 April 2015

Chef and Canonical; an automation story (with a bare metal soundtrack)

News Cloud and server

Every business needs to spend fewer calories on IT management and are looking to automation and cloud-ready platforms to do so. Combining Chef’s scale and flexibility with Ubuntu’s tremendous Linux platform empowers users to easily manage everything from bare metal servers to large-scale clouds. Barry Crist, CEO, Chef...

Canonical
14 April 2015

John Dolen
14 August 2014

Cisco Systems Releases UCS Big Data CVD Based on Ubuntu OpenStack

Article Cloud and server

Ubuntu OpenStack continues to be the “go to” platform for enterprise scale out solutions, as Cisco releases its latest CVD (Cisco Validated Design), Hadoop as a Service (HaaS) with Cisco UCS Common Platform Architecture (CPA v2) for Big Data and OpenStack.  Read this CVD to learn about setting up OpenStack on Ubuntu to...

John Dolen
14 August 2014

John Dolen
13 August 2014

Cloud Magic – See the Juju Demo on IBM POWER8

Article Cloud and server

IBM recently posted  “Cloud Magic! Ubuntu on IBM Power Systems with POWER8”, a video clip of the very first live demo of Ubuntu on POWER8 (with Little Endian mode). Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu and Canonical, provided this demo alongside IBM’s Doug Balog, General Manager, IBM Power Systems, during a keynote at...

John Dolen
13 August 2014

Canonical
29 October 2013

Hadoop Buyer’s Guide

Article Cloud and server

Big Data comes with big choices, in every way! From the tools you use to the investment you make in people and infrastructure. Although Hadoop is arguably the most popular Big Data platform, there are still many implementation and even more add-ons to choose from. To help you decide which one works best for your

Canonical
29 October 2013

Canonical
13 March 2012

Ubuntu and Hadoop: the perfect match

White paper Cloud and server

In many fields of IT, there are always stand-out technologies. This is definitely the case in the Big Data space, where Hadoop is leading the way. However, without the right technology to underpin it, distributed Hadoop storage and processing environments can become complex to deploy and manage, and expensive to...

Canonical
13 March 2012