Benchmarking is a term heard throughout the tech industry as a measure of success and pride in a particular solution’s ability to handle this or that workload. However, most benchmarks feature a simulated workload, and in reality, a deployed solution may perform much differently. This is especially true with databases, since the types of data [...]
Of the many strange-sounding application and product names out there in the industry today, Hadoop remains one of the most recognized. Why? Well, we’ve talked about the impact that data creation, storage and management is having on the overall business atmosphere, it’s the quintessential Big Data problem. Since all that data has no value [...]
The Lustre® file system has played a significant role in the high performance computing industry since its release in 2003. Lustre is used in many of the top HPC supercomputers in the world today, and has a strong development community behind it. Last week, Xyratex announced plans to purchase the Lustre trademark, logo, website [...]
Written By: Erin Filliater, Enterprise Market Development Manager Via the Storage Solutions Group Everyone knows that flash storage is a big deal. However, one of the gaps in the flash storage market has been in enterprise flash systems. Flash caching has for some time been in many enterprise storage environments, but enterprise all-flash [...]
Written By: Erin Filliater, Enterprise Market Development Manager Via the Storage Solutions Group As flash storage has become increasingly available at lower and lower prices, many organizations are leveraging flash’s low-latency features to boost application and storage performance in their data centers. Flash storage vendors claim their products can increase application performance by leaps [...]
Written By: Erin Filliater, Enterprise Market Development Manager The amount of worldwide digital information is growing on a daily basis, and all of that data has to be stored somewhere, usually in external storage infrastructures, systems and devices. Of course, in order for that information to be useful, you need to have fast access [...]
Written By: Erin Filliater, Enterprise Market Development Manager We all know that we live in a world of data, data and more data. In fact, IDC predicts that in 2015, the amount of data created and replicated will reach nearly 8 Zettabytes. With all of this data stored in external storage systems, the way data [...]
Interesting article just came out from Dave Raffo at SearchStorage.com. I have a quick summary below but you should certainly read the full article here: “Health care system rolls its own data storage ‘cloud’ for researchers.” Partners HealthCare, a non-profit organization founded in 1994 by Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, is an [...]
Just in case you missed us at Interop 2009, below are just a few of the presentations that took place in our booth. Mellanox 10 Gigabit Ethernet and 40Gb/s InfiniBand adapters, switches and gateways are key to making your data center F.U.E.L. Efficient Mellanox Product Manager, Satish Kikkeri, provides additional details on Low-Latency Ethernet [...]
I’m still pondering my take on Interop this year. It’s been a while since I’ve seen so many abandoned spaces on the show floor. Mind you most were 10×10 or 10×20 spots, but you could tell there were others who really went light on their presence. I saw one booth which had a 40×40 booth [...]
