Posts Tagged ‘productivity’

An Elephant called Hadoop

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

elephantOne of the technology that is often being evaluated for HPC (High Performance Computing) or Cloud infrastructure is named after a stuffed elephant toy called Hadoop.

Hadoop is actually a framework for distributing data and running applications across a large cluster of servers built on commodity hardware. Today, I’m going to put away my service management, operations, facility hats and put on my old software hat to tell you a little story about this elephant and explain what Hadoop framework is composed of (in a layman’s terms).

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Asia Pacific’s IT spend

Friday, September 18th, 2009

A recent report from Forrester, which surveyed 774 senior IT executives at enterprises with more than 500 employees across ANZ, Japan, South Korea, India, China, Singapore and Vietnam, shows that generally IT spend in Asia Pacific region is down during this economic downturn, even in the economies witnessing growth. The research focused on trends in current IT spend and cost cutting measures.

The findings shows that almost half of the respondents said their 2009 IT budgets will be down, and only 15% of the respondents expects an increase in their IT budgets. Even in China and India, both of which are expected to register strong economic growth this year, many enterprises are decreasing their IT spend. In this two emerging markets, only those organizations that businesses rely primarily on the local or Asian markets continue to see IT budget growth, while those that have higher exposure to the Western markets will see decrease in their IT budgets.

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