Typically Hadoop workloads are run on bare-metal servers. However since Stanford’s School of Medicine was 100% virtualized, and because their monitoring and management tools were integrated within VMware, it was easier for them to deploy Hadoop within VMs, instead of provisioning new physical servers. The biggest challenge Stanford faced with…
Jeff Weiss will be advising Virtunet Systems on identifying private capital resources and refining business strategy. Jeff was VP Engineering of Digital Light Circuits which researched photonic switching devices at Brown University, co-founder and CTO of Omnia Communications(acquired by Ciena), and served as VP of Systems Architecture for Ciena. Jeff…