With Nutanix you have a powerful data protection solution: Metro Availability. You can just enable it within PRISM and administer it easily. Whilst I present this to more and more prospects there is always one thing to clarify: What happens if no one can manually fail-over a site? In most cases people ask this in conjunction […]
Nutanix PRISM automated with the vRealize Orchestrator
As an Ex-VMware Specialist for Automation and Orchestration I could not resist to use the python task from the last blog post in vRealize Orchestrator (aka vCenter Orchestrator, aka Dunes). So I configured the actual Appliance which has the REST 1.0.3 Plug-In already installed. I just added the certificate (SSL Connections in configuration interface) for […]
Nutanix REST API with python
After some very effective new hire training sessions and some first customer meetings I thought it could be a good idea to wipe off the dust and do some python stuff. Maybe you know that Nutanix has a beautiful REST API which you can use to develop great things like portal solutions or integrations. I […]
Nutanix, right?
As you might have noticed I´ve changed my job again. After a short intensive relationship with DataStax I had the opportunity to work for a company called Nutanix. With the knowledge to be part of a company with a perfect solution (DataStax Enterprise) I couldn´t resist the desire to work for an „infrastructure“ company again. […]
Spark vs. MapReduce Series – Part II – MapReduce
Yesterday I had the time to run my favourite example of MapReduce on my twitter data. And guess what, it´s WordCount 🙂 To be honest, this one is available in Hadoop, Spark and SolR and that´s the main reason for this decision. As you might remember there is a „text“ field in my twitter data […]
Spark is fine, but SparkR is…
Last week a potential customer asks for using Spark R on DataStax Enterprise and I had no clue if this could work. I decided to test the general possibility in my lab environment. After starting up my Cassandra and DSE Analytics Cluster I had to install a few things before I could really start using […]
Spark vs. MapReduce Series – Part I – Get some data
With this series I will try to show how to use Cassandra for storing data and how to use MapReduce or Spark to analyse data. First I have to store data in a Apache Cassandra database and my decision was storing tweets. Sounds easy but with CQL you have to think about your data model […]
Deploying Datastax Enterprise with Vagrant and bash
After configuring my new shiny MacBook I started to think about how to establish a Datastax Enterprise Environment on my Notebook. First I wanted to have it cost free and secondly automated, what took me to Vagrant and Virtualbox. I checked different repositories but they always used a config management like chef, puppet or ansible […]
I can see clearly (data) now
This is my first post! As many of you know I was responsible for automation and integration projects at mightycare and VMware in the last years. After nearly 4 years at VMware and some really cool customers, projects and colleagues I decided to start a new adventure at DataStax. With this move I felt that […]