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 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 [...]
