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The AI I/O Bottleneck Pushes Creative Approaches to Storage
It is easy to focus on the specific accelerators and processors for deep learning training and inference and herald these as the enablers of what is next in AI. …
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Breaking Out of the Hadoop Cocoon
The announcement last fall that top Hadoop vendors Cloudera and Hortonworks were coming together in a $5.2 billion merger – and reports about the financial toll that their competition took on each other in the quarters leading up to the deal – revived questions that have been raised in recent years about the future of Hadoop in an era where more workloads are moving into public clouds like Amazon Web Services (AWS) that offer a growing array of services that many of the jobs that the open-source technology already does. …
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Lenovo Meshes with Software Defined Storage Specialist
Lenovo has partnered with Excelero, an up-and-coming NVM-Express solution provider that sells a scale-out software-defined storage platform. …
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MemVerge Converged Storage Makes Clever Use Of Optane Memory
Now that Optane Persistent Memory Modules, based on bit-addressable 3D XPoint memory, are finally available from Intel, everybody in the storage business is trying to figure out how to best make use of them. …
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Researchers Scrutinize Optane Memory Performance
When Intel starts shipping its “Cascade Lake” Xeons in volume soon, it will mark a turning point in the server space. …
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NVM-Express Storage Goes Mainstream Over Ethernet Fabrics
Among the emerging themes for 2019 in the datacenter, one of them is that NVM-Express is finding its place in the storage hierarchy. …
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The New Bellwether For Enterprise IT
The amount of rejiggering among the IT vendors serving enterprise customers (as distinct from hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers) in the past decade and a half has been astounding. …
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Bringing NVMe Over Fabrics Into The Storage Big Tent
NVM-Express has been on a steady roll for the past several years, a hot technology in a storage industry that is looking for ways to best address the insatiable demand for higher performance and throughput and lower latency driven by the need to process data faster and more securely. …
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Stretching GPU Database Performance With Flash Arrays
For the past decade, flash has been used as a kind of storage accelerator, sprinkled into systems here and crammed into bigger chunks there, often with hierarchical tiering software to make it all work as a go-between that sits between slower storage (or sometimes no other tier of storage) and either CPU DRAM or GPU HBM or GDDR memory. …
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Vast Data Clustered Flash Storage Bans The Disk From The Datacenter
Sometimes, a startup takes such a new and profound approach to a problem that it is hard to know where to begin to describe how radical of a change that company has made in developing its product. …