Getting Hyper About Converged Storage, And Then Some
There is no question that information technology is always too complex, and that people have been complaining about this for over five decades now. …
There is no question that information technology is always too complex, and that people have been complaining about this for over five decades now. …
In the high performance computing arena, the stress is always on performance. …
Getting the ratio of compute to storage right is not something that is easy within a single server design. …
Over the last couple of years, we have been watching how burst buffers might be deployed at some of the world’s largest supercomputer sites. …
People tend to obsess about processing when it comes to system design, but ultimately an application and its data lives in memory and anything that can improve the capacity, throughput, and latency of memory will make all the processing you throw at it result in useful work rather than wasted clock cycles. …
The only companies that want – and expect – all compute and storage to move to the public cloud are those public clouds that do not have a compelling private cloud story to tell. …
As data grows, a shift in computing paradigm is underway. I started my professional career in the 1990s, during massive shift from mainframe computing to the heyday of client/server computing and enterprise applications such as ERP, CRM, and human resources software. …
With the record-breaking $60 billion Dell/EMC acquisition now complete, both of these companies and their customers now have more options than ever before to meet evolving storage needs. …
It is week one of the new Dell Technologies, the conglomerate glued together with $60 billion from the remaining parts of the old Dell it has not sold off to raise cash to buy storage giant EMC and therefore server virtualization juggernaut VMware, which is owned mostly by EMC but remains a public company in the wake of the deal. …
The chant for years and years from hyperconverged storage pioneer Nutanix has been “Ban the SAN.” …
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