Fix Your NAS With Metadata
Enterprises are purchasing storage by the truckload to support an explosion of data in the datacenter. …
Enterprises are purchasing storage by the truckload to support an explosion of data in the datacenter. …
IPOs and major investments in storage startups are one thing, but when it comes to a safe tech company investment, all bets are still on tape. …
More databases and data stores and the applications that run atop them are moving to in-memory processing, and sometimes the memory capacity in a single big iron NUMA server isn’t enough and the latencies across a cluster of smaller nodes are too high for decent performance. …
The term software defined storage is in the new job title that Eric Barton has at DataDirect Networks, and he is a bit amused by this. …
When Dell acquired EMC in its massive $60 billon-plus deal last year, it boasted that Dell was inheriting a boatload of new technologies that would help propel forward its capabilities and ambitions with larger enterprises. …
There may be a shortage in the supply of DRAM main memory and NAND flash memory that is having an adverse effect on the server and storage markets, but there is no shortage of vendors who are trying to push the envelope on clustered storage using a mix of these memories and others such as the impending 3D XPoint. …
Energy efficiency and operating costs for systems are as important as raw performance in today’s datacenters. …
Petabytes are in the future of every company, and luckily, the future is always being invented by the IT ecosystem to handle it. …
Being the first mover in establishing a new technology in the enterprise is important, but it is not more important than having a vast installed base and sales force peddling an existing and adjacent product set in which to sell a competing and usually lagging technology. …
Chip maker Intel is getting out of the business of trying to make money with a commercially supported release of the high-end Lustre parallel file system. …
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