Enterprise
Hybrid Arrays Fight Back Against All-Flash
There are almost too many ways to skin the storage cat in the enterprise datacenter these days. …
Store
Enterprise
DDN Crosses Wolfcreek From HPC To The Enterprise
DataDirect Networks got its start as a storage provider for media companies back in 1998, but it sold its first products in into the supercomputing base that was looking for high capacity and screaming performance. …
Enterprise
Pushing Object Storage Toward Exascale
It seems pretty clear that storage systems will hit exascale a few years before compute infrastructure does, and there are two reasons for that. …
Store
Exabyte Scale Automation Filters into New File System
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. …
Enterprise
Startup Snaps To Fix Second-Tier Storage Chaos
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. …
Enterprise
NoSQL Pioneer Readies Disruptive Scale-Out Storage
When you have tackled some of the biggest database and storage problems in hyperscale computing, what do you do as an encore? …
HPC
A Dead Heat in the Supercomputing Storage Race
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. …
Compute
Enterprise
VMware Attacks Hyperconvergence From Three Sides
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. …
Enterprise
Is Moore’s Law Scaling Enough For Flash Arrays?
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. …