Store
Pure Storage’s Strategy Chief Talks Flash, NVMe, And The Competition
The external storage market – like most sectors of the IT industry – took a beating in the first quarter, thanks in large part to the novel coronavirus pandemic. …
Flash
Store
The Pursuit Of Storage That Spans The Clouds
Every IT supplier has cloudy envy. And not just because utility-style pricing has become normalized by the big public clouds, but because they want to have a more regular, annuity-like revenue stream rather than always chasing the next deal. …
Store
Mainstreaming Fast Flash Clusters For Fun And Profit
One of the common themes – and one could say even the main theme – of The Next Platform is that some of technologies developed by the high performance supercomputing centers (usually in conjunction with governments and academia), the hyperscalers, the big cloud builders, and a handful of big and innovative large enterprises eventually get hardened, commercialized, and pushed out into the larger mainstream of information technology. …
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. …
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. …