Big Data MBA Book Review Video Today's book review on the Big Data MBA holds a special place in my library. I had read this book before meeting Bill Scharmzo and after sharing a steak with him I reread it. It was already an amazing book in my eyes … [Continue reading]
Isilon's OneFS makes it easier to create to your own data lake managed in a single namespace. It's a great time to learn more about leveraging your data lake with all the features in OneFS. The Isilon User Working Group I'm excited to announce our … [Continue reading]
In this episode of Isilon Quick, I'll demo enabling FTP in OneFS. Isilon supports FTP, but to take advantage you have to enable it on your cluster. Learn setup FTP on your cluster in under 3 minutes with the video below. FTP In … [Continue reading]
2017 might have just started, but I've already noticed a trend that I believe will be huge this year. Many of the people I talk with who are using Hadoop & friends are curious about HDFS Federation. Here are a few of the questions I hear How … [Continue reading]
SMB Shares in Isilon's OneFS One of the keys capabilities with Isilon's OneFS is creating Server Message Block (SMB) shares for network storage. In this episode of Isilon Quick Tips learn how to create SMB shares in OneFS. Setting SMB Shares in … [Continue reading]
Imagine you're a Systems Administrator responsible for keeping your companies' custom developed application up and running. It is a critical application responsible all the ordering and payments for your company and is the sole interface for your … [Continue reading]
How can I protect my data in HDFS? What is Isilon and how does it work with HDFS? In the coming post I will explain how Isilon makes Hadoop so much easier to manage. First I thought I'd cover the basics on Isilon in my Isilon Quick Tips series … [Continue reading]
Splunking on Hadoop with Hunk So I've seen a lot of people asking what does your Pluralsight: Analyzing Machine Data with Splunk course cover. Well, for starters it covers a ton about starting out in Splunk. Admins and Developers will quickly … [Continue reading]
Recently I released my 3rd Pluralsight course "Analyzing Machine Data with Splunk", this course covers the basics of setting Splunk in your environment. One of the topics covered is Splunk Processing Language (SPL). Unstructured data is doubling … [Continue reading]
OneFS offers many options to customize replication policies using SyncIQ. In this episode of Isilon Quick Tips we walk through those options in deep dive into SyncIQ. Transcript hello and welcome back to another episode of ISILON on … [Continue reading]
My Ultimate Agile Podcast blog post was such a hit I though it only appropriate to do one for Big Data. Who doesn't need to data geek out when in the car, plane, train, or treadmill? Listening to podcast is one of the easiest ways to keep or skill … [Continue reading]
Finding data data for testing in your own Hadoop projects doesn't have to be hard! There are many place to find free data sets for running in your development environments. Checkout this video to find out my Top 4 places to find Big … [Continue reading]