Store
Cloud Storage: More Than Instant Gratification and Near Infinite Scale
For more than a decade, the ease and elasticity of cloud storage has slowly been drawing enterprise users away from their beloved in-house datacenters. …
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Store
Building A File System That’s Primed for the Times
One of the temptations of IT companies that skate on the cutting edge is that they get enamored with their own inventions, forgetting that customers are a lot more interested in practical solutions than whiz-bang technology. …
Store
Deepening Storage Hierarchies Spark New Set of Challenges
Storage hierarchies just aren’t what they used to be.
In the good old days, you stored files on hard disk or magnetic tape. …
Store
Get Used to the Ever-Expanding Storage Hierarchy
The storage landscape is being transformed thanks to the introduction of technologies like NVM-Express, and newer types of non-volatile memory (NVM). …
Compute
Accelerating Compute By Cramming It Into DRAM Memory
Perhaps the biggest task that processor and system designers have to wrestle with these days is how to keep heavily cored and massively threaded processors fed with data. …
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Store
Keeping Pace with Rapid Storage Sophistication
It used to be far easier to talk about storage performance, cost, and options. …
Cloud
When it Comes to File Services, the Cloud is Catching Up
There has been a quiet revolution in storage happening and for once, it has not been led by the decades-old companies catering exclusively to on-prem deployments. …
Store
Dell EMC’s PowerMax is Now All NVM-Express, Persistent Storage
When Dell EMC more than a year ago introduced the PowerMax storage array as the successor to the company’s all-flash VMAX offerings, the company touted the system’s readiness to leverage the NVM-Express (NVMe) protocol and, more importantly, its ability to serve as a gateway to NVMe-over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) and storage-class memory (SCM), both of which would address the growing demand for better performance and latency. …
HPC
High Performance Storage Sets Sail
While the natural habitat of HPC storage is supercomputing and enterprise datacenters, the growing popularity of edge computing means sometimes that hardware must live outside its comfort zone. …