Cloud
Why Google’s Spanner Database Won’t Do As Well As Its Clone
Google has proven time and again it is on the extreme bleeding edge of invention when it comes to scale out architectures that make supercomputers look like toys. …
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HPC
One Small Shop, One Extreme HPC Storage Challenge
Being at the bleeding edge of computing in the life sciences does not always mean operating at extreme scale. …
Compute
The New IBM Glass Is Almost Half Full
It takes an incredible amount of resilience for any company to make it decades, much less more than a century, in any industry. …
Enterprise
HPE Gets Serious About Hyperconverged Storage With SimpliVity Buy
Rumors have been running around for months that Hewlett Packard Enterprise was shopping around for a way to be a bigger player in the hyperconverged storage arena, and the recent scuttlebutt was that HPE was considering paying close to $4 billion for one of the larger players in server-storage hybrids. …
Enterprise
On Premises Object Storage Mimics Big Public Clouds
Object storage is not a new concept, but this type of storage architecture is beginning to garner more attention from large organisations as they grapple with the difficulties of managing increasingly large volumes of unstructured data gathered from applications, social media, and a myriad other sources. …
HPC
Bolstering Lustre on ZFS: Highlights of Continuing Work
The Zettabyte File System (ZFS), as a back-end file system to Lustre, has had support in Lustre for a long time. …
Compute
HPE Powers Up The Machine Architecture
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is not just a manufacturer that takes components from Intel and assembles them into systems. …
Enterprise
All Flash No Longer Has To Compete With Disk
All-flash arrays are still new enough to be somewhat exotic but are – finally – becoming mainstream. …
HPC
Pushing Back Against Cheap and Deep Storage
It is not always easy, but several companies dedicated to the supercomputing market have managed to retune their wares to fit more mainstream market niches. …
HPC
What Sort of Burst Buffer Are You?
Burst buffer technology is closely associated with HPC applications and supercomputer sites as a means of ensuring that persistent storage, typically a parallel file system, does not become a bottleneck to overall performance, specifically where checkpoints and restarts are concerned. …