Lustre File System Moving From Lab To Big Data Apps
Proponents of the Lustre file system maintain it is poised to make the jump from HPC installations into the enterprise, driven by the surging amount of data that companies ...Full Article
Terascala Rides Herd With Lustre Into The Enterprise
It is still early days for the commercialization of the Lustre parallel file system. But the brisk business that Terascala, one of several companies that have put some polish ...Full Article
Fusion-io Tweaks Flash To Speed Up MySQL Databases
Server flash memory maker Fusion-io has tuned up its ioMemory PCI-Express flash cards with two new features that will significantly speed up the performance of MySQL databases. The new ...Full Article
Flash Spreads Around The System, Accelerating As It Goes
UlltraDIMM memory channel storage, which puts flash memory in the same slots as main memory in servers, is starting to ship from IBM, and its advent has a lot ...Full Article
Flash Array Aimed At VDI Heals Other Hospital Applications
When the folks at Shannon Medical Center decided to begin a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) project to eliminate traditional PCs, their research showed how critical I/O would be to ...Full Article
vSAN Pricing: Virtual Storage Costs Like Virtual Servers
VMware previewed its Virtual SAN software late last week, and EnterpriseTech gave you the feeds and speeds. The software is available today, and for some reason VMware didn't want ...Full Article
SGI LiveArc Data Management Advances Cancer Research
Established in 2000, the University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB) in Brisbane, Australia has become leading center for molecular bioscience research. The Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics ...Full Article
Users Line Up For VMware Virtual SAN Storage
VMware was the first mover on virtualization for X86 systems and has benefitted mightily from the wave it started a decade ago to push up the utilization on servers ...Full Article
Oil Explorer Strikes Black Gold With 20 PB Data Reservoir
The conventional wisdom at large enterprises that deal with truly enormous datasets is that they can't keep it all online. At some point, because of the high cost of ...Full Article
Using Flash To Scale In As Well As Up And Out
When people talk about scale in the IT industry these days, more times than not they mean one of two things. The first is called scale up, and this ...Full Article
