If you want to know just how far the performance of an all-flash array can be pushed, you need look no further than the DSSD D5 array that, after years of development and mystery, is being launched by storage juggernaut EMC today. …
It is like the world is turned on its head.
What is the last place on earth where a massive number of disk drives will be unplugged? …
When the founding committer of the Spark in-memory computing framework becomes the CEO of a company that has dropped out of stealth mode and will very likely soon be offering support for a new storage caching layer for the modern, distributed computing era that will span beyond Spark, you have to stop and take notice. …
There is but a small cadre of scalable parallel file systems and while the list might be small, weighing the relative benefits of each option against the available resources can be a challenge, as Sven Breuner and his HPC admin colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute realized in 2004. …
These days when you talk to people in the tech industry, you will get the idea that in-memory computing solves everything. …
One of the big issues with any complex piece of distributed software is getting the most performance out of the scale inherent in the system. …
There are a lot of ways to build or buy hyperconverged server-storage hybrids, and EMC is working with sister company VMware to bring yet another way to market that could, in the end, be the preferred way for many enterprise customers. …
Server virtualization juggernaut VMware was reluctant to take on the storage area establishment most aptly represented by its parent company, EMC, with virtual storage area network storage software aimed at commodity hardware. …
It is great that Hewlett Packard Enterprise is taking the storage bull by its horns with The Machine and working to create a complete compute and storage platform for the day when the needed technologies will all come together. …
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