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We have previously provided a Quickstart guide to standing up Rackspace cloud servers (and have one for Amazon servers as well). These are very low cost ways of building reliable, production ready capabilities for enterprise use (commercial and government). And Bryan Halfpap has provided a Quickstart guide which shows you how to build a Hadoop Cluster (leveraging Cloudera's CDH3). Using Bryan's guide you can have a Hadoop Cluster up and running in … [Read more...]
Editor's note: The tips Bryan Halfpap provides below really work. I stood up a working Hadoop Cluster in under 20 minutes, from cold iron to production ready, using just his guidance and a Rackspace account. bg I've been working with Apache Hadoop in my lab, spending much of that with CDH3 (the Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop). As part of my examination of the best way to move from test/evaluation/prototyping to production systems I've … [Read more...]
Rackspace is a growing cloud computing capability provider that differentiates themselves by what they call "Fanatical Support." We try not to dwell too long on the marketing slogans of firms but have first-hand experience with Rackspace and can tell you their support is really really different. It must be the culture, but every support experience has left me convinced they are a great company to do business with. We host several sites at … [Read more...]
In March we announced our move of CTOvision.com to a new Rackspace Cloud Site capability. After testing we also moved CTOlabs.com and, CrucialPointLLC.com there, and things were so easy/fast/enjoyable we later established DoDIIStech.com there. Using Rackspace gave us must faster performance and many other features. Lately things started to go wrong, however. I started getting error messages when I logged into the admin panels of my sites. My friend … [Read more...]
Dear readers, With traffic increasing we have outgrown our current servers. This is, of course, a good problem to have and we thank you for giving us this issue! We are moving the CTOvision.com blog, as well as most of our other sites, to a new Rackspace Cloud Site capability. Rackspace, as you probably know, is a pioneer in turning new scalable cloud computing concepts into reality. We hope our move will not result in much downtime, but … [Read more...]