At the height of the Hadoop era there were countless storage and analytics startups based on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), several of which were backed by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which was committed to the Hadoop and open source-driven big data startup cause when that was all the rage in 2010 until around 2014 or so. …
For many enterprises these days, managing data has the feel of a three-ring circus. …
Lustre has been an essential component of HPC systems for a decade and a half, and has experienced a somewhat turbulent history of shifting ownership followed by uncertain support from various backers as an open source project. …
It has been four years since Kirk Bresniker, HPE Fellow, vice president, and chief architect at Hewlett Packard Labs, stood before a crowd of journalists and analysts at the company’s Discover show and announced plans to create a new computing architecture that puts the focus on memory and will eventually use such technologies as silicon photonics and memristors. …
Edge computing can mean different things to different people, as is the case with any new phenomena in the IT sector. …
For the past several years, Teuto.net, a small public and private cloud provider in Germany, has used the open source Ceph software as the backbone of its storage infrastructure. …
It is probably a myth that Bill Gates said “640 KB ought to be enough,” and whether or not he said it the truth is that it has never been enough. …
Hewlett Packard built up its conglomerate in the 2000s in good faith, trying to be a larger and more profitable supplier of IT products and services. …
Hitachi is a massive multi-national conglomerate that has more than 300,000 employees and 950 subsidiaries and a reach that extends into a wide array of industries, from aircraft and automotive systems to telecommunications, construction, defense and financial services. …
While there is a battle of sorts going on between hyperconverged architectures and disaggregated ones, it is probably safe to assume that at the scale that most enterprises run, they could care less about which one they choose so long as either architecture does what they need to support applications. …
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