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HPE Further Blurs The Storage Line Between On Premises And The Cloud
The coronavirus pandemic has obviously had an impact on spending trends in the IT market. …
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The Ever-Embiggening Humongous Document Database
Moving its eponymous NoSQL document database to the cloud and running it as a managed service has been a watershed event for MongoDB, which like a number of its peers in the broader database market are growing at the expense of relational databases that can’t scale as well for certain workloads. …
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The Pursuit Of Storage That Spans The Clouds
Every IT supplier has cloudy envy. And not just because utility-style pricing has become normalized by the big public clouds, but because they want to have a more regular, annuity-like revenue stream rather than always chasing the next deal. …
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Presto Is The Third Time Charm For Federated Databases
Users of relational database management systems are accustomed to sub-second response for relatively simple online transaction processing, and have been able to enjoy those zippy responses for decades. …
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The GPU Database Evolves Into An Analytics Platform
As the name of this publication suggests, we are system thinkers and we like to watch the evolution of a collection of tools into a platform. …
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Dell Takes A Clean Sheet Approach To Flash Storage
Dell’s groundbreaking $67 billion acquisition of EMC in 2016 was heralded by the vendor as a way to bring together two top-tier IT vendors with highly complementary parts to create an organization that could essentially provide for whatever technology needs their customers might have. …
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Mainstreaming Fast Flash Clusters For Fun And Profit
One of the common themes – and one could say even the main theme – of The Next Platform is that some of technologies developed by the high performance supercomputing centers (usually in conjunction with governments and academia), the hyperscalers, the big cloud builders, and a handful of big and innovative large enterprises eventually get hardened, commercialized, and pushed out into the larger mainstream of information technology. …
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The Outlook For Infrastructure Is Cloudy – In A Good Way
If we are ever going to know what affect the coronavirus pandemic has had on the IT sector, we have to keep track of what was going on before the outbreak started to hit us hard in the first quarter of 2020. …
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Graphing The Coronavirus Pandemic
Since late February and early March, when the coronavirus outbreak began to spill out of China in earnest and spread its sickness and death across Europe, throughout the United States, and into other parts of the globe, IT companies have stepped up to lend their technologies to fight the pandemic. …
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Ceph Gets Fit And Finish For Enterprise Storage
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. …