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The Era Of Big Memory Is Upon Us
If you reduce systems down to their bare essentials, everything exists in those systems to manipulate data in memory, and like human beings, all that really exists for any of us is what is in memory. …
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Necessary For Adtech Then, Even Moreso For Enterprise Now
Like other technologies, a lot of the databases in use in the world are born out of necessity because some other database hit a performance, capacity, or latency wall – or sometimes all three at the same time. …
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The Memory Area Network At The Heart Of IBM’s Power10
It must have been something in the cosmic ether.
Apopros of nothing except the need to fill a blank page with something interesting back when we were analyzing IBM’s second quarter financials and considering the options that Big Blue has with the “Cirrus” Power10 systems it will be launching about a year from now, we did a thought experiment about what it would mean if IBM started to believe in big iron machines again. …
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Making HCI Hay While the Sun Shines
Whenever enterprise server buyers are shopping, they are not just comparing the possible options on the market today against each other. …
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Lowering The Temperature Of HPC Storage Tiering
Storage in the ever-expanding HPC space has traditionally been based on temperature. …
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Squeezing Every Drop Of Value Out Of Data
To Patricia Harris – like most people in the rapidly changing worlds of IT and business – data is central to what she does. …
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An Architecture for Artificial Intelligence Storage
As we’ve talked about in the past, the focus on data – how much is being generated, where it’s being created, the tools needed to take advantage of it, the shortage of skilled talent to manage it, and so on – is rapidly changing the way enterprises are operating both in the datacenter and in the cloud and dictating many of the product roadmaps being developed by tech vendors. …
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Bringing The Enterprise SAN Into The Cloud Era
Storage is perhaps one of the thorniest issues in computing, whether you are looking at an enterprise datacenter or an HPC environment. …
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Accelerated Databases In The Fast Lane
Hardware accelerated databases are not new things. More than twenty years ago, Netezza was founded and created a hybrid hardware architecture that ran PostgreSQL on a big, wonking NUMA server running Linux and accelerated certain functions with adjunct accelerators that were themselves hybrid CPU-FPGA server blades that also stored the data. …
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Getting Unstructured Data Under Control
Data growth is the one exponential we can all relate to and will continue to grow into the future. …