HPC
How Long Before Burst Buffers Push Past Supercomputing?
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. …
Store
Connect
Raising The Standard For Storage Memory Fabrics
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. …
Cloud
Igneous Melds ARM Chips And Disks For Private S3 Storage
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. …
Compute
The Emergence Of Data-Centric Computing
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. …
Enterprise
Modern Storage Software Erodes Resistant Data Silos
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. …
Compute
The New Dell Stops Trying To Be The Old IBM
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. …
Compute
Nutanix Pivots From Hyperconvergence To Platform
The chant for years and years from hyperconverged storage pioneer Nutanix has been “Ban the SAN.” …
Compute
Growing Hyperconverged Platforms Takes Patience, Time, And Money
In this day and age when the X86 server has pretty much taken over compute in the datacenter, enterprise customers still have their preferences and prejudices when it comes to the make and model of X86 machine that they deploy to run their applications. …
Control
Delta Datacenter Crash: Do the Math on Disaster Recovery ROI
How on earth could a company the size and scope of Delta—a company whose very business relies on its ability to process, store, and manage fast-changing data—fall prey to a systems-wide outage that brought its business to a grinding halt? …
Enterprise
High Sticking With Flash Memory
Making the transition from disk storage to flash and other non-volatile media is perhaps more difficult for the makers of storage than it is for customers. …