AI
Vast Data Intentionally Blurs The Line Between Storage And Database
Depending on how you look at it, a database is a kind of sophisticated storage system or storage is a kind of a reduction of a database. …
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HPE Converges 3PAR Block And Vast Data File Onto One Alletra MP Platform
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. …
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Vast Data Eyes A Role In The Datacenter Beyond Storage
In its short lifetime, Vast Data has been able to put its stamp on a fast-changing data storage market. …
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Vast Data Sheds Hardware Business to Tackle Largest Users
…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.
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Storage Can’t Be An Afterthought With AI Systems
It is a given that high performance computing systems of any kind are going to need high performance storage to keep them fed. …
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Blazing The Trail For Exascale Storage
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. …
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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. …
HPC
HPC In 2020: Acquisitions And Mergers As The New Normal
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. …
AI
Existing Storage Infrastructure is the Bottleneck for AI
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.). …
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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. …