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How Virtualization Helps in the Data Science and Machine Learning Lab – Part 2

Justin Murray posted July 3rd, 2018

Rightsizing a Machine Learning Cluster on VMware vSphere In part 1 of this 2-part article, we saw multiple applications running on Apache Spark clusters, the TensorFlow runtime, Cloudera CDH platform and other workloads – all sharing a set of physical servers that were managed by VMware vSphere. These applications operate in collections of virtual Read more...

How Virtualization Helps in the Data Science and Machine Learning Lab – Part 1

Justin Murray posted June 29th, 2018

One of the most exciting aspects of data science and machine learning (ML) is the pace of technical innovation that is happening in these fields. New tools, platforms, models and data science workbenches are being created at a rapid pace – so rapid, in fact, that it is difficult for the practitioner to keep up Read more...

New Architectures for Apache Spark™ and Big Data

Mohan Potheri posted December 20th, 2017

Key Trends in Big Data Infrastructure: Some of the key trends in big data infrastructure over the past couple of years are: • Decoupling of Compute and Storage Clusters • Separate compute virtual machines from storage VMs • Data is processed and scaled independently of compute • Dynamic Scaling of compute nodes used for analysis Read more...

Game Changing: Day 2 Enterprise Data Management Tasks with VMware NSX and vRealize Network Insight

Bob Goldsand posted November 15th, 2016

As a Staff Partner Architect at VMware, I tend to look at our platform and products through a slightly different lens than some of my colleagues. Rather than focusing solely on our feature rich product sets and platform, I take a top down approach and identify which of these features are most interesting for mission/business Read more...

Virtualizing SAP—it’s a risk not to

Bob Goldsand posted June 28th, 2012

by Elliot Fliesler, Director, SAP Alliance, VMware There are business-critical applications—and then there’s SAP. If you’re an IT manager in an SAP-based organization, you know first-hand the importance of this market-leading BCA system to every aspect of your operations. Many large enterprises cannot run their businesses without SAP—it’s not just critical, it’s indispensable. Is Virtualizing Read more...