Store
Backs Up Against The Memory And I/O Walls
The memory and I/O wall are arguably the two most intractable bottlenecks in the modern datacenter. …
Flash
Store
Vast Data Clustered Flash Storage Bans The Disk From The Datacenter
Sometimes, a startup takes such a new and profound approach to a problem that it is hard to know where to begin to describe how radical of a change that company has made in developing its product. …
HPC
Architecting Storage And Compute At Exascale
When IBM’s Summit supercomputer was officially unveiled in June, some hailed it as the first exascale system because of its peak performance in applications that made heavy use of GPU acceleration at low precision. …
AI
HPC And AI Can’t Compute Without Fast, Scalable Storage
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. …
Enterprise
Follow The Yellowbrick Road To An All-Flash Data Warehouse
General purpose computing systems have been seen as the best way of delivering on enterprise data processing needs for decades. …
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. …
Uncategorized
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. …