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VMware Attacks Hyperconvergence From Three Sides
Any new system architecture gets its best chance of being adopted in the enterprise when it is paired with a greenfield workload that is more or less isolated from other software running in the datacenter. …
Enterprise
Is Moore’s Law Scaling Enough For Flash Arrays?
All-flash array upstart Pure Storage has had a single target it has been aiming at since the company uncloaked from stealth mode back in the summer of 2011: Tier one disk storage in the datacenter. …
Enterprise
Why IT Shops Are Going For All-Flash Datacenters
If space, power consumption, and raw I/O performance were not an issue, most datacenters would continue to use disk drives for their tier one storage until the end of time. …
Enterprise
The Future Of Flash Is Massive Scale
There is no question that flash has utterly transformed the nature of storage in the datacenter, and that flash and other non-volatile memory that will replace it in the coming years will warp the architecture of systems. …
Compute
Expanding The Hyperconvergence Base
VMware seeded its market for hyperconverged storage and virtual server clusters based on its Virtual SAN (VSAN) with an open and very popular beta program ahead of its commercial launch, and rival Nutanix, wanting to aggressively expanding its own customer base, is hoping to crank up its sales through the launch of a freebie Community Edition of its Virtual Computing Platform. …
Hyperscale
Cold Storage Heats Up At Facebook
Facebook’s social network is free, but that does not mean that the company’s 1.2 billion users do not have expectations for uptime and durability of the photos and videos they store on the service. …
Cloud
PCI-Express Flash Revamped To Compete With NVMe Drives
It was hyperscalers Facebook and Apple that put enterprise flash memory card maker Fusion-io on the map a few years ago as they used its storage to accelerate their massive databases, accounting for the majority of its revenues in 2011 and 2012 and a big chunk in 2013. …
HPC
Still Shrouded in Stealth, DSSD Proves Early Performance at Scale
Around this time last year, EMC announced the acquisition of DSSD, a storage acceleration startup founded by a slew of ex-Sun leads, including Andy Bechtolsheim (one of the original Sun founders), Jeff Bonwick (co-creator of Sun’s ZFS file system) and led by Bill Moore as CEO (former head of storage at Sun). …
HPC
Future Supercomputers Grow Out of File Systems, Into DAOS
In our coverage of the string of next-generation HPC systems, we have talked about the big changes on the programming, memory, and network horizons, but there is one potentially disruptive change on the way for storage—one that could tear down existing paradigms, including the concept of time-tested parallel file systems. …