The Truth About Flash Memory In The Datacenter
Flash memory has proven to be the most disruptive storage technology of the past few years. …
Flash memory has proven to be the most disruptive storage technology of the past few years. …
Just stop and take a few minutes from your always-on day, to reflect upon how enterprise IT used to be. …
We spend a lot of time at The Next Platform thinking about technologies that trickle down from on high – whether they come from HPC centers or hyperscalers – and gradually go mainstream and end up in the datacenters of large enterprises. …
Flash memory is cheap, but it isn’t fast, at least not by the standards of DRAM. …
The announcement this week by Intel and Micron Technology of 3D XPoint memory, which will sit somewhere between DRAM and NAND flash in future systems, has everyone thinking about the architectural, economic, and performance implications of emerging memory technologies in devices of all kinds – including those humming away in the datacenters of the world. …
It is not an insignificant thing to announce an entirely new class of memory. …
There are almost too many ways to skin the storage cat in the enterprise datacenter these days. …
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. …
It seems pretty clear that storage systems will hit exascale a few years before compute infrastructure does, and there are two reasons for that. …
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. …
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