(Video) The Flexible Data Center

As part of our ongoing series of video shorts, from last November’s OpenStack Paris Summit, Seagate’s Senior Business Development Manager, Shai Tsur provides useful insights for stakeholders of data management.

The latest, which focuses on the innovation in data centers addresses changes that are bringing about more flexibility.

 Click the image above to launch the video

Click the image above to launch the video

As Shai explains…

“We’re thinking about situations where you’re getting rid of storage servers entirely from the (data) center or you’re getting Hadoop environments where instead having an over provisioned compute server sitting on top of a lot of storage waiting for the time it needs to process that data you can now move the data to where your compute sits…”

To learn more, refer to our blogs ‘Hadoop Misconceptions’ Part 1 and Part 2. Meanwhile, engineering types can dig around our ‘Hadoop Distributed File System’ content on our site dedicated for the developer community.

2015-03-19T15:20:29+00:00

About the Author: