Before leaving Google in 2013, Felix Hupfeld and Bjorn Kolbeck took careful note of the seamless way the search giant’s storage systems operated almost automatically, with tiny teams operating the storage backbone that powered hundreds of thousands of servers in the United States and Europe. …
Anyone who has worked on the Google File System and then founded a hyperconverged server-storage company is probably going to have a slightly different perspective on all of the secondary storage in the datacenter that is used to house everything but the mission critical data that ends up on so-called “tier one” storage. …
When you have tackled some of the biggest database and storage problems in hyperscale computing, what do you do as an encore? …
On the one hand, it might seem, from the outside at least, that supercomputing systems at both the national lab and Fortune 500 level would require a great number of specialized pieces to fit with the high performance applications and system profiles. …
Any new system architecture gets its best chance of being adopted in the enterprise when it is paired with a greenfield workload that is more or less isolated from other software running in the datacenter. …
All-flash array upstart Pure Storage has had a single target it has been aiming at since the company uncloaked from stealth mode back in the summer of 2011: Tier one disk storage in the datacenter. …
If space, power consumption, and raw I/O performance were not an issue, most datacenters would continue to use disk drives for their tier one storage until the end of time. …
There is no question that flash has utterly transformed the nature of storage in the datacenter, and that flash and other non-volatile memory that will replace it in the coming years will warp the architecture of systems. …
VMware seeded its market for hyperconverged storage and virtual server clusters based on its Virtual SAN (VSAN) with an open and very popular beta program ahead of its commercial launch, and rival Nutanix, wanting to aggressively expanding its own customer base, is hoping to crank up its sales through the launch of a freebie Community Edition of its Virtual Computing Platform. …
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