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Hard Disks Give New Technologies a Spin
There is little doubt that solid state disks have become a disruptive force for datacenter storage and have bright future. …
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The Unlikely Marriage of Databases and Object Storage
The vast swathes of unstructured data that now reside in the cloud has changed the nature of information technology in many ways. …
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Is Amazon’s Database Strategy A Glimpse Into The Future?
IBM, through the work of Edgar Codd, invented the ideas behind the relational database back in 1970. …
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Staying Afloat In The Coming Data Deluge
Back in 2016, we wrote a column about the rise of data-centric computing. …
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DDN Uses Acquisitions to Grow In The Enterprise
For more than two decades, DirectData Networks has focused on HPC storage, supplying large systems to enterprises and research institutions wrestling with complex and data-laden workloads and taking on such challenges as acquiring the Lustre File System from Intel in 2018. …
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Cloud Storage: More Than Instant Gratification and Near Infinite Scale
For more than a decade, the ease and elasticity of cloud storage has slowly been drawing enterprise users away from their beloved in-house datacenters. …
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Building A File System That’s Primed for the Times
One of the temptations of IT companies that skate on the cutting edge is that they get enamored with their own inventions, forgetting that customers are a lot more interested in practical solutions than whiz-bang technology. …
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Deepening Storage Hierarchies Spark New Set of Challenges
Storage hierarchies just aren’t what they used to be.
In the good old days, you stored files on hard disk or magnetic tape. …
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Get Used to the Ever-Expanding Storage Hierarchy
The storage landscape is being transformed thanks to the introduction of technologies like NVM-Express, and newer types of non-volatile memory (NVM). …
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Accelerating Compute By Cramming It Into DRAM Memory
Perhaps the biggest task that processor and system designers have to wrestle with these days is how to keep heavily cored and massively threaded processors fed with data. …