Compute
We Fight, Get Beat, Rise, And Fight Again
Hewlett Packard built up its conglomerate in the 2000s in good faith, trying to be a larger and more profitable supplier of IT products and services. …
Flash
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Sluggish Moore’s Law Doesn’t Impede Intel One Bit
The demand for compute is so strong among the hyperscalers and cloud builders that nothing seems to be slowing down Intel’s datacenter business. …
Enterprise
Vexata Has Its Own Twist On Scaling Flash Storage
When looking for all-flash storage arrays, there is no lack of options. …
Enterprise
IBM Storage Rides Up Flash And NVM-Express
IBM’s systems hardware business finished 2017 in a stronger position than it has seen in years, due in large part to the continued growth of the company’s stalwart System z mainframes and Power platform. …
Cloud
Microsoft Boosts Azure Storage With Flashy Avere
The future of IT is in the cloud, but it will be a hybrid cloud. …
Connect
A Purified Implementation Of NVM-Express Storage
NVM-Express holds the promise of accelerating the performance and lowering the latency of flash and other non-volatile storage. …
HPC
An Exascale Timeline for Storage and I/O Systems
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
While exascale supercomputers mark a next step in performance capability, at the broader architectural level, the innovations that go into such machines will be the result of incremental improvements to the same components that have existed on HPC systems for several years. …
Cloud
Hyperscaling With Consumer Flash And NVM-Express
There is no question that plenty of companies are shifting their storage infrastructure from giant NAS and SAN appliances to more generic file, block, and object storage running on plain vanilla X86 servers equipped with flash and disk. …
Hyperscale
Weaving Together Flash For Nearly Unlimited Scale
It is almost a foregone conclusion that when it comes to infrastructure, the industry will follow the lead of the big hyperscalers and cloud builders, building a foundation of standardized hardware for serving, storing, and switching and implementing as much functionality and intelligence as possible in the software on top of that to allow it to scale up and have costs come down as it does. …
Compute
Like Flash, 3D XPoint Enters The Datacenter As Cache
In the datacenter, flash memory took off first as a caching layer between processors and their cache memories and main memory and the ridiculously slow disk drives that hang off the PCI-Express bus on the systems. …