Compute
Rambus, Microsoft Put DRAM Into Deep Freeze To Boost Performance
Energy efficiency and operating costs for systems are as important as raw performance in today’s datacenters. …
Store
Cloud
Swiss Army Knife File System Cuts Through Petabytes
Petabytes are in the future of every company, and luckily, the future is always being invented by the IT ecosystem to handle it. …
Compute
Riding The Virtual SAN Gravy Train
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. …
Enterprise
Intel Shuts Down Lustre File System Business
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. …
AI
FPGAs To Shake Up Stodgy Relational Databases
So you are a system architect, and you want to make the databases behind your applications run a lot faster. …
Cloud
Hyperscaling With Consumer Flash And NVM-Express
There is no question that plenty of companies are shifting their storage infrastructure from giant NAS and SAN appliances to more generic file, block, and object storage running on plain vanilla X86 servers equipped with flash and disk. …
Hyperscale
Weaving Together Flash For Nearly Unlimited Scale
It is almost a foregone conclusion that when it comes to infrastructure, the industry will follow the lead of the big hyperscalers and cloud builders, building a foundation of standardized hardware for serving, storing, and switching and implementing as much functionality and intelligence as possible in the software on top of that to allow it to scale up and have costs come down as it does. …
Compute
Squeezing The Joules Out Of DRAM, Possibly Without Stacking
Increasing parallelism is the only way to get more work out of a system. …
Compute
Memory And Logic In A Post Moore’s Law World
The future of Moore’s Law has become a topic of hot debate in recent years, as the challenge of continually shrinking transistors and other components has grown. …
Compute
Like Flash, 3D XPoint Enters The Datacenter As Cache
In the datacenter, flash memory took off first as a caching layer between processors and their cache memories and main memory and the ridiculously slow disk drives that hang off the PCI-Express bus on the systems. …