EMC Isilon ClusterTalk Podcast

Chris explains how Wikipedia handles massive traffic spikes when celebrities die, then reports on “Smart Nation” initiatives. Guest Mitko Blazeski explains how an EU car maker expanded storage capacity without expanding physical footprint. Bill Crew pulls the curtain back on the “secret” Hadoopinati. Tips divulge how to get email alerts from Splunk, and the latest way to install OneFS patches. Finally, Chris wines and Scott worries that Nancy Drew is listening. 

Biochemical engineer Sasha Paegle explains how Harvard stored 700 TB of data in a single gram, then Chris reports from Virtual Reality. In Hadoop Roundup, Bill Crew explains to Scott which is more romantic: YARN, or Mesos? An engineer finds out what to do with pesky .smbdelete files. Scott celebrates retro rock tribute bands, and Chris is a person of interest. 

ClusterTalk launches its second year! Bill Crew plays zookeeper to a Pig; Chris Adiletta wonders how much stress customers endure waiting for online video to load. We discuss two worlds: Pandora, James Cameron’s Avatar reality (and how it relies on Isilon), and EMC World. Special guest Jason Farnsworth reflects on his eight years as an Isilon user. A customer asks about retaining snapshots forever, and Chris follows up with the most elaborate Cool Command yet. Meanwhile, photos of a quilt make Scott Pinzon happy.

Chris and Scott cover breakthroughs in animation studio workflows, from “the fastest animation studio in the world” to NASCAR broadcasting races in Virtual Reality. Hadoop brofessor Bill Crew sheds light on ingestion applications. Community member afowler21 raises questions about the Isilon API. Chris highlights a OneFS 8.0 command, isi cloud accounts list. In What’s Making Us Happy, Scott is The Witness, so Chris runs away. 

Chris and Scott try out a bite sized mid-month ClusterTalk format with Snapshot.  In a moment of coaching brilliance we discuss data within the Super Bowl then dive in to politics and internet tracking tools.  Your regularly scheduled full ClusterTalk episode will still be coming out in a couple weeks, but these topics just couldn’t wait!  Leave a comment and tell us what you think! Super Bowl Data Usage https://www.wareable.com/sport/super-bowl-2016-50-wearable-tech-in-the-nfl http://www.geekwire.com/2016/super-bowl-data-usage/ Tracking Tech http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/us/politics/tracking-clicks-online-to-try-to-sway-voters.html?_r=1

In an episode more stuffed with material than Nigel Tufnel’s shoe store, Scott Pinzon and Chris Adiletta host news and technical tips about Big Data storage. Gobbled from the Feed: How biometric data influenced the editing of The Revenant; a one-billion-euro prototype reactor that could generate clean energy, at 100 million degrees Centigrade. OneFS NEXT: SMB3 continuous availability; Varun Chhabra on why Isilon users might want Elastic Cloud Storage. Hidden Gems: Katie Johnson explains how you can troubleshoot just like Isilon support engineers. Hadoop Roundup: Bill Crew on why you’ll want both SQL and NoSQL apps for analytics. Plus You Asked for It, Cool Commands, and in What’s Making Us Happy, a round-up of sci-fi cable shows worth watching, and notable new gadgets from CES.

December’s episode salutes the holidays with two stories about lights that blink – sometimes as a prank; sometimes as a breakthrough source of data bandwidth. Bill Crew’s new Hadoop Roundup feature lists nine indispensable ingredients for all Hadoop administrators’ “fruitcake.” Chris Adiletta offers the solution to a problem with bi-directional user mapping, and highlights the non-disruptive upgrades and rollback feature coming in OneFS.NEXT. Scott Pinzon explains why happiness this month is all about the Hamiltons.

Traditional, or NASty? Chris Adiletta and Scott Pinzon ponder the differences with guest correspondent Bill Crew. After Chris headlines 2016 Isilon products and features, this contrarian whacko considers whether NASA climate data predicts a coming mini-Ice Age; we then explain how synthetic DNA turns yeast into carpets. Hidden Gems: how Isilon users can deploy the cluster monitoring tool that Isilon Support Engineers use. You Asked for It: What are the order of operations for replacing a node? Cool Commands: commands to power down properly. In What’s Making Us Happy, Scott gives The Message, and Chris finds hope for the human race. (Dreamers gotta dream.)

Halloween takes over ClusterTalk as Chris and Scott examine how Big Data helps everything from retailers plotting what costumes will sell 18 months from now, to a data scientist dad optimizing his son’s trick-or-treat route. But have no fear; Isilon OneFS tips still appear, as Chris covers user questions about InsightIQ, and we carefully screen Cool Commands. In happy talk, Chris spaces out, and Scott shoots cops (and they like it). 

While Scott obsesses over podcasts that rival ClusterTalk, Chris goes layers deep into the technology behind Solid State Drive (SSD) capacity. Gobbled from the Feed covers the “important topics” of how Big Data improves both football and beer, culminating when Scott challenges Chris with a Lightning Round pop quiz covering all past episodes. Cool Commands introduces an elite “underscore” command, and the co-hosts discover happiness in a) more football, and b) Mr. Robot. 

Listen to find out how Episode 6 of EMC Isilon ClusterTalk, Game On!, is “improperly formatted.” This time Wizard Scott and Bard Chris venture forth on a quest to understand how video games drive innovations in cloud computing. Other topics include data center consolidation in the banking industry; an interview with Isilon Engineer Daniel Chee recorded in Sao Paolo, Brazil; a cool command that actually does something; and Chris granting Scott his fondest wish. Listen closely for a rare cameo by recording engineer Silent Todd!

In this episode, hosts Chris Adiletta and Scott Pinzon report on how Big Data has both made pop music more formulaic (bad!) and has found new ways to save endangered honey bee colonies (good!). Gobbled from the Feed includes an in-depth report on what Big Data tells us about wildfires and landslides, featuring guest data scientist Collette Gantenbein. The You Asked For It and Cool Commands segments combine to examine Smartfail and flexprotect. Hidden Gems features a new opportunity to influence Isilon documentation. And last, Chris and Scott get their happy on with a doorbell and a magazine.

Welcome to episode 4 of the EMC Isilon ClusterTalk podcast, What’s That in your Genes?  In this episode we look down the road of a new self-driving truck corridor, talk some baseball, and look at breakthroughs in genomics.  We talk to a gentleman who’s made an awesome tool you can use to understand PAPI, get some thoughts on using Quotas, we look at some Hadoop best practices guidance and talk of our happy places.  

Welcome to episode 3 of the EMC Isilon ClusterTalk podcast.  In this episode there is drama in the data center, and romance in Hopkinton! We talk with special guest Tom Chapman about patches and the community. We discuss robots redefining the world around us and green energy powering everything.  There’s a hidden gem to find and a job for cool commands too. 

As a questionable A.I. program helps Scott Pinzon and Chris Adiletta perfect the pacing of Episode 2, our hosts cover: ·         Customer questions about the new Isilon HD400 node launch ·         Hidden Gem: the new OneFS Upgrade Infohub; ·         What admins can learn from the way charities utilize Big Data ·         What to do with rapidly-growing workloads, exemplified by video shot in 6K ·         Cool Command: isi for array ·         The return of the cyber-punk giants ·         Epic video game space simulations.   Kirsten Gantenbein and Lisa Anderson guests.

Made by and for people who work with Big Data, ClusterTalk explores how next-gen data storage touches down in real-world innovation. Hosts Scott Pinzon and Chris Adiletta, along with guest experts, also help EMC Isilon scale-out NAS users get the most performance, efficiency, and insight from their OneFS clusters.