May 6, 2013

Database Interoperability is No Laughing Matter

by Mark Cusack, Chief Architect I was asked to write about how we connect and exchange data with other databases.  My first response was “Oh Mum, do I have to?”  My second response was to take a nap.  The problem with data movement is that it’s dull.  Records are of… Read More »
April 26, 2013

But Hadoop Already Does This!

by Mark Cusack, Chief Architect, RainStor Jimmy Hill is a footballing legend in the UK.  His name is also used as the standard refrain when exclaiming disbelief in a particular notion.  So, for example, when prospects, customers or my wife try explain to me that Hadoop already does all of… Read More »
April 12, 2013

What Lies Beneath Big Data Costs? Storage.

by Deirdre Mahon, VP Marketing In information-intensive industries such as Financial Services, Communications, Media, Retail and Utilities, Big Data management and analysis is an absolute must-have strategy this year. Yet CIOs everywhere are trying to figure out what to do about the staggering costs of how and where to store… Read More »
March 27, 2013

Hadoop’s Growing Pains

by Deirdre Mahon, VP Marketing, RainStor If you want to learn what data scientists and developers are thinking about Big Data, there’s probably no better venue than at the O’Reilly Strata conference, where the big thinkers tend to congregate. The results of a survey conducted by Dimensional Research and sponsored… Read More »
December 10, 2012

Hadoop MapReduce & SQL Mash-up – A Match Made in Enterprise Heaven?

By John Bantleman, CEO As Big Data moves to the mainstream enterprise, one major theme has emerged and is driving the next generation of Big Data solutions; the need to extend beyond the batch limitations of MapReduce and deliver high performance (real-time) analytics. Hadoop is in effect moving from being… Read More »
November 1, 2012

Something Else Big Hit New York City

I have been spending an increasing amount of time in NY over the last year as we have been hiring, opening offices, and engaging with an increasing number of customers and prospects. Having lived through the aftermath and mayhem of a Hurricane some 25 years ago in Texas, I (and… Read More »
September 30, 2012

Hadoop – The Tape Killer

By John Bantleman, CEO With the price of commodity hardware continuing to motion downward, it continues to surprise me when I talk to organizations that still offload their historical data to tape offline and inaccessible. I can only guess that it is driven by a mix of factors which include… Read More »