Like other technologies, a lot of the databases in use in the world are born out of necessity because some other database hit a performance, capacity, or latency wall – or sometimes all three at the same time. …
It must have been something in the cosmic ether.
Apopros of nothing except the need to fill a blank page with something interesting back when we were analyzing IBM’s second quarter financials and considering the options that Big Blue has with the “Cirrus” Power10 systems it will be launching about a year from now, we did a thought experiment about what it would mean if IBM started to believe in big iron machines again. …
Whenever enterprise server buyers are shopping, they are not just comparing the possible options on the market today against each other. …
Storage in the ever-expanding HPC space has traditionally been based on temperature. …
To Patricia Harris – like most people in the rapidly changing worlds of IT and business – data is central to what she does. …
As we’ve talked about in the past, the focus on data – how much is being generated, where it’s being created, the tools needed to take advantage of it, the shortage of skilled talent to manage it, and so on – is rapidly changing the way enterprises are operating both in the datacenter and in the cloud and dictating many of the product roadmaps being developed by tech vendors. …
Storage is perhaps one of the thorniest issues in computing, whether you are looking at an enterprise datacenter or an HPC environment. …
Hardware accelerated databases are not new things. More than twenty years ago, Netezza was founded and created a hybrid hardware architecture that ran PostgreSQL on a big, wonking NUMA server running Linux and accelerated certain functions with adjunct accelerators that were themselves hybrid CPU-FPGA server blades that also stored the data. …
Data growth is the one exponential we can all relate to and will continue to grow into the future. …
The external storage market – like most sectors of the IT industry – took a beating in the first quarter, thanks in large part to the novel coronavirus pandemic. …
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