Apache Hadoop Infrastructure Considerations and Best Practices
Thanks to Lisa Sensmeier and hortonworks Link Bit Refinery is a Hortonworks Technical Partner and recently certified with HDP. Bit Refinery is a VMware© Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider featuring virtualization technology hosted within their fully redundant virtual data centers. Bit Refinery offers a hosted Hortonworks Sandbox providing an easy way to experience and learn Hadoop with ease. All the tutorials available from the Hortonworks Sandbox work just as if you were running a localized version of the Sandbox. Brandon Hieb, Managing Partner at Bit Refinery, is our guest blogger, and in this blog, he provides insight to virtualizing Hadoop infrastructures. Here at Bit Refinery we provide infrastructure for companies large and small which includes a variety of big data applications running on both bare-metal and VMware servers. With this new technology constantly changing, it’s hard to keep up with the different required resources needed which co...