Big Data: Store data properly

How to save content to exist forever? And as can be accessed at any time and without delay it? Wide Area Storage is a promising approach.
The comprehensive analysis of data in some parts of the company long has been a reality. Internet-based marketing systems record "auto-magically" masses of information about potential customers and their preferences. Flashable digital movie cameras can be discharged within a night and used again and are so light years away from the days when every single picture was burned on an extremely expensive medium.

Not enough: then they had to be processed and edited manually with incomparably more effort. Companies generate, store and analyze increasingly HD video rather than text, which brings a hundred fold higher level of accuracy of data per user and per product itself. So for example, detect when the American racing series NASCAR 18 HD cameras the action on the racetrack, allow direct data access, search and analysis.

What is Big Data?
Only 14 percent of people know what the word "Big Data! is meant as the Bitkom has found. Expert Advisor: Carlo Velten sums up the phenomenon together in five theses.

Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 at the Test

The third release of Hyper-V hypervisor introduced in 2008 Mach, Microsoft lost ground against the archrival VMware vSphere and its package. The current version of Hyper-V Windows Server 2012 makes the cloud platform.

Since time immemorial, the release cycles of Hyper-V are the Windows versions bound, so that innovations and rarely come in spurts. With Windows Server 2012, the Microsoft explicitly positioned as a comprehensive platform for private cloud, wins the hypervisor important: He is the driving force behind the virtualization of servers and desktops based on Windows.

Hyper-V 2012
• Hyper-V is a BareMetal hypervisor.
• The Hyper-V Switch extends the networking capabilities of the hypervisor.
• The new file format offers VHDX considerably more disk space for each virtual hard disk
• Hyper-V can delegate storing data to compatible storage systems.
• The sconfig command line is used as setup and configuration tool.
• Hyper-V is installed as a server role through Server Manager

To be against the powerful competition, most notably VMware, say, Microsoft has invested in the expansion of the art and the deeper integration of Hyper-V with the operating system, infrastructure and management solutions. In all important segments Hyper-V has been heavily drilled. It offers about improved live migration features, better scaling, and greater flexibility in networking with network virtualization techniques, advanced storage features as well as a package of new features that will greatly simplify the use in cloud environments.

The cloud storage

Software-defined Storages (SDS) on the basis of open source offer flexibility and scalability, do not reach the proprietary memory.

IT decision makers are increasingly confronted with the question of how a cloud infrastructure can easily deploy and how various cloud offerings can be permanently integrated into existing systems. Solutions such as OpenStack , Cinder or OpenATTIC have greatly gained in popularity, because they have an open architecture and companies have realized that they can thereby realize efficiencies and cost savings much faster than with traditional software.

Open Source Storage - the smarter choice
On average, to manage the volume of data every two years. Doubled Software-defined Storage (SDS) is the answer to this rising flood of data. By abstracting the hardware from the software, the high functionality of existing storage systems can represent purely in software and transfer it to a simple, low-cost hardware. This SDS is an effective way to back up data efficiently and cost effectively and to manage.

A look at the memory approach commercial providers shows that there are huge margins retracted because users who want to use some APIs, modules or functions always have to buy the whole package. Open Source is much more flexible. It's not just about saving costs, but also to the freedom, functions and modules if and to the cloud Add Framework when they are actually needed.