Month: November 2016

I began my current career path as an IT consultant back in 2005.  If you recall, this was just about the same time as VMware started raising eyebrows.  The release of ESX 3.0 came the following year, 2006.  And thusly, the server virtualization revolution went into full effect. We had a lot of challenges thoseContinue reading →

Yesterday, Microsoft took their investments in Yammer and Skype and launched a new product that combined features from both into a product called Microsoft Teams.  Like many other group collaboration platforms, Teams is meant to allow multiple people in an organization to chat in a group setting while also reviewing documents and other content.  WhileContinue reading →

As more companies begin to delve into Big Data and analytics on a larger scale, they are beginning to notice that data mobility is one of the largest challenges.  Hadoop clusters – whether deployed on-premises or leveraging cloud-based services such as Amazon Web Services Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) – previously required a coupling of the dataContinue reading →