Understanding the Hadoop-Data Warehouse Balance of Power

Will Hadoop replace your enterprise data warehouse (EDW)? This question, or some variation there of, has been making the rounds lately. Just this week I’ve read two good posts on the topic (this one from Matt Asay and this one from Timo Elliot), and my Twitter feed is full of related commentary. The answer to this question […]

Mega-Datacenters are the Future

Wikibon believes that the traditional data center as we know it, for most organizations, will not exist within ten years, even in the largest enterprises of the world. What will remain are enterprise IT control centers; the data processing will be executed in mega-datacenters, and the data, (all the data), will be stored in these mega-datacenters. Alongside will be the data from cloud service providers and data aggregators, as well as multiple communication vendors with state-of-the-art long distance communication to users, partners, suppliers and other mega-datacenters.

The underpinning of mega-datacenters will be a software-led infrastructure (software-defined) where compute, storage and network functionality will be provided by layers of control software running on commodity hardware. For example, storage will be located close to the servers in a Server SAN model, rather than the traditional network storage model of function based on proprietary code locked within storage arrays. The former will support applications horizontally across the application portfolio, whereas the latter requires purpose-built stacks on an application by application basis.