There has been a land rush of sorts by storage OEMs over the past few weeks to roll out systems and services designed to help enterprises manage and process the huge amounts of data that is being created and stored throughout their widely distributed IT environments. …
Four years ago, Cloudian was a six-year-old startup in an object storage space that, while the technology had been around for more than a decade, was seeing a surge of interest from cloud providers desperate for a storage architecture that only could scale to meet the demands of their rapidly growing datacenters, the massive amounts of data that was being generated and the need to be able to more easily move it between core on-premises datacenters and multiple cloud environments – and in the coming years the edge. …
For the past couple of decades, IBM’s Spectrum Scale – formerly known as General Parallel File System –has had a solid standing as one of the two go-to file systems for HPC. …
While the interface has changed little over time, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is anything but basic on the backend. …
Enterprises continue to be inundated with data that needs to be collected, stored, moved, processed and analyzed, and the view down the road shows no let up. …
As tens of millions of Americans who have received their $1,400 Covid relief checks in recent weeks can attest, getting a little financial boost during stressful and difficult times can go a long way in helping to separate themselves from day-to-day survival and turn some of their attention to longer term plans. …
…For storage startups focused on the highest end of infrastructure, removing the costs associated with a hardware business might be the only way to reach potential.
It seems like a question a child would ask: “Why are things the way they are?” …
Like many system architects the world over, we had high hopes for the 3D XPoint variant of phase change memory (PCM) when it launched with much fanfare back in July 2015 after being developed jointly by Intel and Micron Technology for many, many years. …
There are a lot of new technologies that are available now or are going to be available shortly that have the potential to radically change the compute, memory, and storage hierarchies in systems. …
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