Ceph, the open source object storage born from a doctoral dissertation in 2005, has been aimed principally at highly scalable workloads found in HPC environments and, later, with hyperscalers who did not want to create their own storage anymore. …
The challenge of managing data is growing faster than the data itself is piling up, and that is bad except for the companies that can create new tools to manage it, either to use internally as the hyperscalers do or to sell to those who cannot fund such development and count on vendors to do it. …
The best technology companies have always taken something that was complex and done a whole lot of engineering or in many cases re-engineering of it to make it usable and consumable – with the right pricing – so it can go mainstream. …
Enterprises are said to be awash in data, and one of the problems posed by all this data is not just storing it, but processing it. …
The growing number of and installations for all-flash storage arrays is hard to ignore. …
If you want inspiration for a hyperscale, resilient distributed block storage service, apparently a jellyfish is a good place to start looking for architectural features. …
If FPGAs are going to take off in the datacenter in their own right, they are going to need their own killer apps. …
Storage systems are inherently data intensive. But the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence as a standard datacenter workload has storage vendors scrambling to design platforms that better meet the more stringent performance needs of these applications. …
We have been waiting for a long, long time for the ionic bond between compute and main memory to be softened to something a little more covalent and therefore allow for more complex storage structures to be formed within systems and across them. …
One of the biggest storage decisions being considered by customers nowadays is how they want to manage their data: as cloud-like objects or as traditional files. …
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