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The Once And Future Federated Database
There are many different schools of thought when it comes to databases, which is one of the reasons that we launch our inaugural event focused solely on database technologies this year. …
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Big Blue Shines A Light On The Future Of Tape Storage
IBM knows how to adapt to an ever-changing enterprise tech landscape. …
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Boosting Memory Capacity And Performance While Saving Megawatts
Antonio Peña, senior researcher at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, and his team in Spain have demonstrated how – without code modification – large data centers can increase application performance while saving megawatts of power per day plus run 100X to 10,000X larger AI inference jobs that can handle encrypted data. …
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Pure Expands Its As-A-Service Playbook
The push by established datacenter tech vendors to get into the as-a-service game has accelerated in recent months, fueled in part by the COVID-19 pandemic and the need by organizations to more quickly embrace cloud services to help them adapt to the suddenly shifted business model that features a more widely distributed workforce, which brings a truckload of security and management issues. …
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Exploiting the “Legacy Tax” Loophole for HPC Storage
Over the next few years, we can expect to hear even more about large-scale computing sites bumping up against the memory wall, although not necessarily where they might expect. …
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Blazing The Trail For Exascale Storage
When it comes to advanced technologies at the high end of compute, networking, and storage, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is one of the world’s pathfinding testbeds. …
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176 Steps Closer To The Mythical All-Flash Datacenter
We have nothing against disk drives. Seriously. And in fact, we are amazed at the amount of innovation that continues to go into the last electromechanical device still in use in computing, which from a commercial standpoint started out with the tabulating machines created by Herman Hollerith in 1884 and used to process the 1890 census in the United States, thus laying the foundation of International Business Machines. …
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On The Edge With NVM-Express And Object Storage
These days, whenever a research firm or industry leader outlines its vision for the future of enterprise technology, edge computing is almost always one of the central trends. …
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Pawsey Finds I/O Sweet Spots for Data-Intensive Supercomputing
When it comes to data-intensive supercomputing, few centers have the challenges Pawsey Supercomputing Centre faces. …
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Where Latency Is Key And Throughput Is Of Value
If hardware doesn’t scale well, either up into a more capacious shared memory system or out across a network of modestly powered nodes, there isn’t much you can do about it. …