The Growth of Middleware Appliances and Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse

Posted by Larry Neumann on Mar 6, 2013

SearchSOA had an article yesterday on the rapid growth in SOA and middleware appliances, a subject near and dear to our hearts here at Solace. Obviously we agree with the observations, given that we are the leading supplier of messaging middleware appliances globally, and have experienced 1512% growth of our own over the past 5 years. As the megatrends of big-data-scale applications and the move...
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Filed under Big Data, Hardware
Tagged with appliances, big data, Hardware, SearchSOA, techtarget, zombies

Scaling Data Movement when Planning for Big Data

Posted by Larry Neumann on Oct 8, 2012

Wikipedia defines big data as “a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools.” In the majority of cases, that same big data storage requirement comes with a big data movement challenge. Just as companies turn to new data management approaches to capture, store and analyze their very largest data sets, they need to...
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Filed under Big Data
Tagged with big data, Gartner, high performance messaging

Gartner Cranks up the Hype (Cycles)

Posted by Larry Neumann on Aug 7, 2012

Once a year, industry analyst firm Gartner publishes wide sweeping set of reports they call Hype Cycles. Each one of these reports takes a typical area of IT investment, for example Big Data, and provides commentary on that topic, as well as the various technologies, IT methodologies and management disciplines that comprise that topic. Hype Cycles highlight overhyped areas and estimate how long...
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Filed under Coverage, Misc
Tagged with application architecture, application infrastructure, big data, energy, event-driven architecture, Gartner, high performance messaging, Hype Cycle, in-memory data grids, operational technologies, smart grid

Capturing data streams at “big data” scale

Posted by Larry Neumann on Dec 8, 2011

Before you can break into a cold sweat about tackling the design of a system that analyzes big data volumes, you first need to be able to capture the data. More often than not, the design parameters feel like a traffic engineering problem — there are simply too many cars and not enough road. Certainly, LAN and WAN network technology introduces many limits and the largest commercial databases...
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Filed under Big Data
Tagged with Apache Qpid, big data, Hadoop, Kafka, Splunk

Baseball, the cloud, and big data

Posted by Larry Neumann on Sep 9, 2011

As the release of the upcoming movie Moneyball approaches, it’s inevitable that we’ll be hearing much more about baseball’s sabermetrics. ReadWriteWeb is out front of the topic with a nice article today on How Big Data and the iPad have Fundamentally Changed Baseball. This article ties together three of my favorite topics – big data analytics, cloud computing infrastructure and baseball....
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Filed under Cloud Computing, Cross Industry
Tagged with analytics, baseball, big data, real time