These are exciting times for the memory hierarchy in systems. New kinds of DRAM and non-volatile memories are becoming available to system architects to enhance the performance and responsiveness of the applications that run upon them. …
Object storage is not a new technology, but it is something that many enterprises are just starting to adopt as they follow the hyperscalers and HPC centers away from the overhead and scalability limits of traditional storage and its file systems. …
Very few things happen in the IT vendor community without orchestration. …
When is the right time to get rid of servers and storage and replace them with shiny new gear? …
Storage servers in their many forms are rapidly making traditional storage arrays, with their custom electronics, a thing of the past, and hyperconverged server-SAN hybrids are a hot commodity in the enterprise datacenter because they radically simplify virtualized infrastructure and deliver some of the operational benefits that hyperscalers have created for their own converged infrastructure. …
The hyperscale datacenter operators of the world take a certain kind of pride in breaking technologies and finding new and better ways to scale compute, networking, and storage. …
Memory chip partners Intel and Micron Technology shook up the flash and main memory markets back in July with the announcement of 3D XPoint memory, something that can be used as both a bit-addressable device like DRAM and a block device like flash. …
Five years ago, when flash was still an exotic thing in enterprise storage but had been a mainstay for accelerating databases and metadata at hyperscalers for a number of years, Dell and EMC were partners, but its acquisition of Compellent Technologies for $960 million essentially broke up that relationship. …
The announced acquisition of enterprise storage giant EMC by server and PC maker Dell has fueled the pontifications of pundits across the tech industry, leaving almost no area unanalyzed. …
If money was no object, and the laws of physics were a lot more yielding, all of the data in the world might be stored on a single medium and system architecture would be a lot simpler. …
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