If incumbent storage suppliers want to have a business in the hybrid cloud world, they have to find ways to erase the line between what’s in the cloud and what’s on-premises – and increasingly what’s at the edge. …
In its short lifetime, Vast Data has been able to put its stamp on a fast-changing data storage market. …
…For storage startups focused on the highest end of infrastructure, removing the costs associated with a hardware business might be the only way to reach potential.
It is a given that high performance computing systems of any kind are going to need high performance storage to keep them fed. …
When it comes to advanced technologies at the high end of compute, networking, and storage, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is one of the world’s pathfinding testbeds. …
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. …
After a decade of vendor consolidation that saw some of the world’s biggest IT firms acquire first-class HPC providers such as SGI, Cray, and Sun Microsystems, as well as smaller players like Penguin Computing, WhamCloud, Appro, and Isilon, it is natural to wonder who is next. …
There is little question that storage and I/O are hot topics once again with the arrival of a host of new technologies that displaced the tried and true from decades past (disk, bulky parallel file systems, etc.). …
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. …
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