Cloud
Google Seeks Better Spinning Rust
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? …
Store
Control
Tachyon Caching Is Bigger Than Spark In-Memory
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. …
Control
ARM, Open Source Feed Buzz Around HPC File System
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. …
Enterprise
The Myth Of In-Memory Computing
These days when you talk to people in the tech industry, you will get the idea that in-memory computing solves everything. …
Compute
Nutanix Squeezes Lots More Performance From Server-SAN Hybrid
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. …
Compute
EMC, VMware Push VSAN Hyperconvergence To The Limits
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. …
Enterprise
VMware Takes On All-Flash Arrays With VSAN
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. …
Compute
Non Volatile Heaps And Object Stores In The Machine
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. …
Enterprise
Aiming Object Storage At Hadoop, Hitting Core Enterprise Instead
While compute and networking are fairly homogenous across the enterprise datacenter these days, the same cannot be said for storage, which is a bit of a mess and far less uniform than the clustered storage that is deployed by hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers. …