DataDirect Networks (DDN) has launched EXA5, the company’s fifth-generation Exascaler Lustre file system platform, which will be used to populate the company’s all-flash, mid-range, and high-end storage appliances. …
Qumulo was born at a time of change. When the company was founded seven years ago, enterprises were still running most of their business on premises, but the cloud was out there now and software-defined was gaining steam. …
When Oak Ridge National Laboratory installs its 1.5 exaflops Frontier supercomputer in a couple of years, it’s likely to be the most powerful system in the US, if not the world. …
Over the last couple of years, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has added to its already broad portfolio of storage, which includes 3PAR arrays, which HPE bought in 2010, and its homegrown XP7 lineup, aimed at mission-critical workloads that need high availability and uptime. …
Given our focus on the systems-level of AI machine building, storage was a big topic of discussion at the sold-out Next AI Platform event we hosted in May. …
When most people speak of exascale supercomputers, they tend to focus on the computational aspect of these systems. …
Cockroach Labs has created a clone of Google’s Spanner geographically distributed database, and it looks like adoption of the CockroachDB database is starting to ride up the blade of the proverbial hockey stick and is moving quickly towards the much steeper handle. …
There is little question that storage and I/O are hot topics once again with the arrival of a host of new technologies that displaced the tried and true from decades past (disk, bulky parallel file systems, etc.). …
It is no secret that the big three commercial Hadoop distributors have been running into headwinds in recent years as more workloads and data have made their way into the public cloud and that these Hadoop platform providers have spent a lot of money and time to expand their stacks beyond the basic open source Hadoop. …
At The Next AI Platform event on May 9 in San Jose, we brought together a wide range of people leading the charge throughout the AI infrastructure stack. …
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