The various life-extension technologies that will keep disk at the forefront of some of the largest storage installations are working–and keeping disk’s largest consumers, like Dropbox, around for long haul…
When it comes to exascale storage capacity, the national labs have nothing on Dropbox. …
It was only two years ago that Cloudera, once one of the top vendors in what had been a white-hot Hadoop market, found itself fighting for survival. …
We talk about big money being spent on GPU-accelerated HPC and AI systems all the time here at The Next Platform, and we have been clear that we think another area where such acceleration will take off is with databases and related analytics, and particularly with data warehouses that have trillions of rows of data. …
Without good technology, all the marketing in the world won’t get a company off the ground and keep it in the air, and conversely, without good marketing and sales, all of the technology in the world won’t do it, either. …
It is a given that high performance computing systems of any kind are going to need high performance storage to keep them fed. …
One of the great things about the database market is that there are many different kinds of data and the problems that need to be addressed to store, organize, and query that data are also increasing with the speed and amount of data stored. …
To catch a glimpse of the future of what memory devices and approaches will dominate the AI-centric datacenter, there are few better forecasters than Evangelos Eleftheriou. …
There is plenty of potential to upset traditional storage via leveraging on-board NVMe devices and while the competition is thick and fierce, there are a few companies that are already standing out in 2021. …
Every large IT shop has its own unique I/O demands; from mixed workloads to high volume or velocity of data and all the points in between. …
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