Tag: Big Data

The image of open source software has changed. No longer seen as the geeky, slightly awkward alternative to mainstream software, it’s now trendy, fashionable and super-cool. Well, OK, it still has the geeky edge and it’s still all about innovation. However, it has grown and matured to the point where everyone from small businesses to […]

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Cisco and SUSE have collaborated for years on solutions that improve efficiencies and lower costs in the data center by leveraging the flexibility and value of the UCS platform and the performance and reliability of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. With focus and advancement in the areas of compute, storage and networking, Cisco and SUSE are […]

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The past few years have seen innovations in the High Performance Computing (HPC) landscape shift from research to commercial use. Due to the emergence of open source and new clustering technologies, supercomputing has permeated its way across geographies and  industries beyond research and academia, into areas such as energy, health care, entertainment and retail, among […]

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Hadoop is an open source software framework for storage and large scale processing of data on clusters of commodity hardware. Our partner Cloudera reported back in November that the largest Hadoop cluster size they have observed is around 5,000 nodes, up from 3,500 in 2012. The average Hadoop cluster size is much smaller, 100-200 nodes […]

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Yes, we’re all talking about big data, but with the big numbers associated with that market it is really no surprise, is it? IDC is forecasting a 27 percent compound growth rate resulting in $32 billion spent on big data technology and services through 2017. When I think about a market of that size, I […]

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Big Data is one of the primary growth areas for Linux in the Enterprise, and SUSE has been the cornerstone operating system of several large Big Data solutions such as SAP HANA and Teradata.  With our 22-year legacy in Enterprise Linux and leadership in performance-intensive environments such as High Performance Computing and Linux on the […]

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SAP Vice President Chris Hallenbeck at SUSECon 2013: “Into the Real-Time Age Together with SUSE” “HANA is just the start. We embarked on this journey with SUSE and we’ll continue on it with SUSE.” Chris Hallenbeck, Global Vice President of HANA Solution Management at SAP, used these words in his keynote speech at SUSECon 2013 in […]

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Over 2,100 companies of different sizes and from all sectors of industry already use SAP’s in-memory appliance, HANA – benefitting from quicker transactions, analysis, planning, as well as forecast and trend evaluation. This is backed up by countless practical examples. In its latest reference customer blog, SAP writes that HANA has enabled the Mercedes subsidiary, AMG, […]

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UBM recently published the 2013 Embedded Market Study about embedded systems markets worldwide, including embedded design environment, tools, and operating systems. For me the use of a commercial open source operating system for embedded systems was interesting, which leads back to the question “what is the difference between embedded and integrated systems?” To summarize the […]

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The new openSUSE 12.3 release, besides having many other great features, introduced ARM for the first time as a new, fully supported architecture.

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