Mike Guerette

Abstract: Historically, the term "Hadoop" has been considered synonymous with its core technologies: MapReduce and the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). But today the definition of Hadoop is rapidly evolving. The Hadoop community is generalizing the application runtime model beyond MapReduce. On the storage front, we're seeing the emergence of many alternative Hadoop-compatible file systems. Red Hat has built an interface layer for its Red Hat Storage Server product. This complete implementation of the Hadoop file system interface lets Hadoop-related...

abstract: The world is moving fast. Is your IT team keeping up? Are you able to deliver the new applications and services that the business and your customers are demanding? The old ways of doing application development and deliver are falling behind as the world zooms by. Waterfall development and departmental silos are rapidly becoming boat anchors for IT. In this webinar, you will learn about three exciting new game-changers for IT that can help meet these new challenges: Agile...

Abstract from DevNation 2014: Messaging has become a critical infrastructure component for both developers and systems administrators. Scaling infrastructure in an efficient and manageable way is critical in modern physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures. To provide value to the business, developers and systems administrators must understand technical and business advantages of current and future architectures. Join Scott McCarty and Scott Cranton as they bring years of experience in building scalable, fault tolerant, distributed systems to the architectural challenges of building...

Abstract: Netflix designs our systems and deployment processes to help the service survive both catastrophic events like zone and regional outages and less catastrophic events like network latency and random instance death. This system has previously been described as "dream devops". In our data centers we had monolithic systems and centralized operations. When we moved to the cloud we fully embraced the distributed services and the devops model. Now, with experience, we've uncovered real-world challenges with the devops model and...

Hey, Boston! DevOpsDays will be in town next week and is sold out (good news, but bad if you're missing it). Red Hat is a sponsor, so we'll see you there (We've got schwag.) Here's the event home page and their program agenda.

Welcome to the Red Hat® Developer Newsletter. As we're in the season for covering our arms and faces with sunscreen, here's another ARM for your attention. Last month, Red Hat announced the launch of the Red Hat ARM Partner Early Access Program to enhance partner collaboration and facilitate partner-initiated system designs —based on the 64-bit capable ARMv8-A architecture —that include Red Hat software. The program is aimed at silicon vendors, independent hardware vendors (IHVs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), and original...

Red Hat has released the beta version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6, the latest version of our Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 Beta includes enhancements to both security and stability as well as: Increased system performance An improved system administration experience Enhancements to Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a virtual guest Optimizations and tuning improvements include: Out-of-the-box support for Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) to deliver low-latency, high bandwidth...

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