Compute
It’s About Time For Time Series Databases
To get straight to the point: nobody wants to have large grain snapshots of data for any dataset that is actually comprised of a continuous stream of data points. …
Store
Enterprise
A New Architecture For NVM-Express
NVM-Express is the latest hot thing in storage, with server and storage array vendors big and small making a mad dash to bring the protocol into their products and get an advantage in what promises to be a fast-growing market. …
Store
Samsung Puts the Crunch on Emerging HBM2 Market
The memory market can be a volatile one, swinging from tight availability and high prices one year to plenty of inventory and falling prices a couple of years later. …
HPC
Bringing a New HPC File System to Bear
File systems have never been the flashiest segment of the IT space, which might explain why big shakeups and new entrants into the market don’t draw the attention they could. …
Cloud
Everyone Wants A Data Platform, Not A Database
Every IT organization wants a more scalable, programmable, and adaptable platform with real-time applications that can chew on ever-increasing amounts and types of data. …
Cloud
Microsoft Boosts Azure Storage With Flashy Avere
The future of IT is in the cloud, but it will be a hybrid cloud. …
Connect
A Purified Implementation Of NVM-Express Storage
NVM-Express holds the promise of accelerating the performance and lowering the latency of flash and other non-volatile storage. …
Control
Burst Buffers Blow Through I/O Bottlenecks
Burst buffers are carving out a significant space for themselves in the HPC arena as a way to improve data checkpointing and application performance at a time when traditional storage technologies are struggling to keep up with the increasingly large and complex workloads including traditional simulation and modeling and new things like as data analytics. …
Enterprise
Bridging Object Storage And NAS In The Enterprise
Object storage may not have been born in the cloud, but it was the major public cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform that have been its biggest drivers. …
Compute
Disaggregated Or Hyperconverged, What Storage Will Win The Enterprise?
It has been a long time coming, but hyperconverged storage pioneer Nutanix is finally letting go of hardware, shifting from being an a server-storage hybrid appliance maker to a company that sells software that provides hyperconverged functionality on whatever hardware large enterprises typically buy. …