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Machine Learning with H2O – the Benefits of VMware

Justin Murray posted February 22nd, 2019

This brief article introduces a short 4.5 minute video that explains the reasons why VMware vSphere is a great platform for data scientists/engineers to use as their base operating platform. The video then demonstrates an example of this, showing a data scientist conducting a modeling experiment with an input set of data, while using the Read more...

Microsoft SQL Server Workloads and VMware Cloud on AWS: Design, Migration and Configuration

Oleg Ulyanov posted February 11th, 2019

Hosting mission-critical higly available Microsoft SQL Server (further referenced as SQL Server) workloads on VMware vSphere platform became mainstream during the last years. With the introduction of VMware Cloud on AWS enterprises now have an option to extend the vSphere hosting platform beyond on-premises datacenters into public cloud while maintaining the same toolset, user experience Read more...

Virtualizing GPU Accelerated SQream Database Management Systems on VMware vSphere (Part 2 of 2)

Mohan Potheri posted November 29th, 2018

In Part 1 of this series we looked at the challenges facing Analytics workloads, the potential need for GPU based relational databases and the setup of the validation environment. In this part we will look at the results from the validation of the vSphere virtualized SQream Database for data loading and querying. DB Data Loading Read more...

Virtualizing GPU Accelerated SQream Database Management Systems on VMware vSphere (Part 1 of 2)

Mohan Potheri posted November 29th, 2018

Compute Performance is the new challenge for data analytics Traditional enterprise databases, designed in the past century, fail to scale out effectively to meet the needs of the new streaming analytics applications. X86-based compute alone is unable to keep up with compute needs as the volume of data and its need for speedy processing have Read more...

Virtualized High Performance Computing (HPC) Reference Architecture (Part 2 of 2)

Mohan Potheri posted September 27th, 2018

In part 1 we introduced the concept of virtualizing HPC and its architecture. In part 2 we will look at the makeup of management/compute clusters and some sample designs. Management Cluster The management cluster runs the VMs that manage the virtualized HPC environment. As shown in Figure 7, these include vSphere and vSphere integrated components Read more...