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Mainstreaming Fast Flash Clusters For Fun And Profit

April 30, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 0

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. …

The Outlook For Infrastructure Is Cloudy – In A Good Way

April 16, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan 1

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. …

Graphing The Coronavirus Pandemic

April 10, 2020 Jeffrey Burt 0

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. …

Ceph Gets Fit And Finish For Enterprise Storage

March 18, 2020 Jeffrey Burt 2

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. …

Bulking Up The File System for A World Of Clouds And Edges

March 5, 2020 Jeffrey Burt 0

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. …