Connect
Future Interconnects: Gen-Z Stitches A Memory Fabric
It is difficult not to be impatient for the technologies of the future, which is one reason that this publication is called The Next Platform. …
Store
Enterprise
Kafka Wakes Up And Is Metamorphosed Into A Database
Sometimes a database is like a collection of wax tablets that you can stack and sort through to update, and these days, sometimes it is more like a river that has a shape defined by its geography but it is constantly changing and flowing and that flow, more than anything else, defines the information that drives the business. …
Compute
How To Do Stateless Compute, Clustered Storage Like A Hyperscaler
There are so many companies that claim that their storage systems are inspired by those that have been created by the hyperscalers – particularly Google and Facebook – that it is hard to keep track of them all. …
HPC
An Exascale Timeline for Storage and I/O Systems
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
While exascale supercomputers mark a next step in performance capability, at the broader architectural level, the innovations that go into such machines will be the result of incremental improvements to the same components that have existed on HPC systems for several years. …
Enterprise
How Hardware Drives The Shape Of Databases To Come
One of the reasons that the University of California at Berkeley was been a hotbed of software technology back in the 1970s and 1980s is Michael Stonebraker, who was one of the pioneers in relational database technology and one of the industry’s biggest – and most vocal – shakers and movers and one of its most prolific serial entrepreneurs. …
Enterprise
The Ironic – And Fleeting – Volatility In NVM Storage
There is no question any longer that flash memory has found its place – in fact, many places – in the datacenter, even though the debate is still raging about when or if solid state memory will eventually replace disk drives in all datacenters of the world. …
Store
Fresh Thinking on Programmable Storage
The difficult part about storage these days is far less about capability than about adapting to change. …
Enterprise
Fix Your NAS With Metadata
Enterprises are purchasing storage by the truckload to support an explosion of data in the datacenter. …
HPC
Stretching the Business of Tape Storage to Extreme Scale
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. …
Compute
Clever RDMA Technique Delivers Distributed Memory Pooling
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. …