AI
The Challenge Machine Learning Brings To Storage
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. …
Store
HPC
The Shape of Storage for the Exascale Era
When most people speak of exascale supercomputers, they tend to focus on the computational aspect of these systems. …
Store
CockroachDB Wants To Take A Bite Out Of Oracle
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. …
AI
Existing Storage Infrastructure is the Bottleneck for AI
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.). …
Compute
Hadoop Pioneer MapR Faces An Uncertain Future
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. …
AI
I/O Bubbles to Top of AI Infrastructure Conversations
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. …
AI
In the Age of AI, Storage is No Longer an Afterthought
Storage is no longer an afterthought when it comes to systems of any reasonable scale. …
Store
Those Without Persistent Memory Are Fated To Repeat It
We have published a number of stories lately that talk about the innovative uses of Intel’s 3D XPoint Optane persistent memory modules, which are a key component of the company’s “Cascade Lake” Xeon SP systems and which are also becoming a foundational technology in clustered storage based on NVM-Express over Fabrics interconnects from a number of storage upstarts. …
Enterprise
Store
Storage Underpins Interplay Between HPC and AI
It is difficult to talk about AI at scale without invoking the decades of work that has happened in the supercomputing trenches. …