While compute and networking are fairly homogenous across the enterprise datacenter these days, the same cannot be said for storage, which is a bit of a mess and far less uniform than the clustered storage that is deployed by hyperscalers, cloud builders, and HPC centers. …
In a series of articles over the last two weeks, we have taken a close look at how the storage stack might be changing for next-generation high performance computing sites—not to mention similarly sized installations for very large-scale enterprise. …
Last week, in an article on the pending death of the parallel file system, a note was made about an effort out of Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) called MarFS, which will serve as the intermediary solution to allow very large centers to take advantage of cloud-style object storage using a more familiar POSIX approach. …
Object storage is not a new technology, but it is something that many enterprises are just starting to adopt as they follow the hyperscalers and HPC centers away from the overhead and scalability limits of traditional storage and its file systems. …
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