Cloud
Cloudy Infrastructure Drives Datacenter Spending Growth
We have said it before here at The Next Platform, and we will say it again. …
Store
AI
Making NoSQL Scale Better On Hadoop
Document databases are an integral part of the application stack, but they often have scalability issues and they tend to end up off to the side of the Hadoop systems that are increasingly being used as a the repository of record for all kinds of data. …
AI
MemSQL Wants To Be The Storage Engine For Spark
The Spark in-memory processing framework that came out of the AMPLab at the University of California at Berkeley is hotter than hot. …
Compute
Engineered Systems Decline, Converged Systems Boom
After a boisterous first couple of years when the concept was new, sales of so-called “engineered systems” or integrated platforms, as the box counters at IDC call them, were rising steadily alongside of the adjacent market for converged infrastructure. …
Enterprise
Forging Server SAN Hybrids To Fit The Enterprise
The three things that large enterprises want out of hyperconverged storage, and that EMC will be bringing to bear with its ScaleIO server-SAN hybrid, are scalability, performance, and ease of consumption. …
Enterprise
The Nitty Gritty Of In Memory Computing
As noted at the beginning of this article series last week, an initial dive into in-memory computing meant questioning whether this was just another of those buzz words or whether there was some meat behind it. …
Compute
Custom Servers Cool, Custom Storage White Hot
If the server and storage markets are bellwethers for the underlying strength of the economy, as we at The Next Platform believe, then the global economy has been perhaps more healthy than other indicators might have been pointing to. …
AI
Opening the Door for Wider Hadoop Storage Strategies
The Hadoop framework was created to deliver a balance between performance and data management efficiencies and while this is a good part of the reason it has taken off in recent years, there are still some areas of The Next Platform that are out of balance at the storage layer. …
Compute
What In-Memory Computing Actually Means
Part II is published: The Nitty Gritty of In-Memory Computing can be found here
Not really very long ago the terms In-Memory Computing (IMC) and In-Memory Database (IMDB) seemed to start showing up big time. …
Enterprise
Fat VMs Push Some Enterprises To All-Flash Arrays
Hyperscalers like Apple and Facebook helped flash vendors like Fusion-io, now part of SanDisk, get off the ground in such a big way that they could then attack the broader enterprise market. …