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When It Comes To AI, Flash Is Getting Smaller And Bigger

July 28, 2021 Joseph Martins Comments Off on When It Comes To AI, Flash Is Getting Smaller And Bigger

Sponsored We all know AI and machine learning rely on vast amounts of data, just as we all know the Internet is largely cat videos and other user-generated content no one ever looks at. …

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Why Dropbox’s Exascale Strategy Is Long-Term, On-Prem Disk

March 9, 2021 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 2

The various life-extension technologies that will keep disk at the forefront of some of the largest storage installations are working–and keeping disk’s largest consumers, like Dropbox, around for long haul…

When it comes to exascale storage capacity, the national labs have nothing on Dropbox. …

Store

Rumors of Disk’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

September 16, 2019 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett 1

We talked recently about the addition of new layers of performance in the storage stack and how users and storage architects are trying to make most effective use of those. …

AI

HPC And AI Can’t Compute Without Fast, Scalable Storage

September 19, 2018 Ambrose McNevin 0

By definition, HPC is always at the cutting edge of computing, driving innovations in processor, system, and software design that eventually find their way into more mainstream computing systems. …

Cloud

A Statistical View Of Cloud Storage

February 8, 2018 Jeffrey Burt 0

Cloud datacenters in many ways are like melting pots of technologies. …

Cloud

Google Seeks Better Spinning Rust

February 26, 2016 Timothy Prickett Morgan 4

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?  …

Enterprise

The Myth Of In-Memory Computing

February 19, 2016 Bobby Johnson 1

These days when you talk to people in the tech industry, you will get the idea that in-memory computing solves everything. …

Enterprise

In A Decade, Disk Is Dead For Tier One Storage

August 17, 2015 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

The very first disk drive in the world was a vertical rotating drum coated with magnetic material called the IBM 305 RAMAC, which still used vacuum tubes as its compute elements and weighed about a ton. …

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