Tag: Flash
Novel Storage Technique Speeds Big Data Processing
Between the data deluge and the proliferation of uber-connected devices, the amount of data that must be stored and processed has exploded to a mind-boggling degree. One commonly cited statistic from Google Chairman Eric Schmidt holds that every two days humankind creates as much information as it did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003. Read more…
Cisco Jumps Into the All-Flash Storage Array Game
There’s a new kid in the all-flash storage array business that's not really a kid at all. Networking giant, Cisco has signaled their intention of becoming a player in the budding flash arena with the acquisition of the all-flash storage vendor, WHIPTAIL. Announced last week, the acquisition will come with a price tag of approximately $415 million dollars and is expected to finish in Q1 of 2014. Read more…
Achieving Low Latency: The Fall and Rise of Storage Caching
The caching of content from disk storage to high-speed memory is a proven technology for reducing read latency and improving application-level performance. The problem with traditional caching, however, is one of scale: Random access memory, typically used for caches, is limited to Gigabytes, while hard disk drive-based storage exists on the order of Terabytes. Is it time for flash memory to step in? Read more…
ABBA Seeks to Top Charts with Flash
ABBA is the source of more than just upbeat disco grooves. These days, the band’s acronym is being revived to back an EMC project that hopes to use Flash technology to spin big data into fast data. Although we too agree that there's just not enough gold iamé in data-intensive computing R&D, there.... Read more…
Big Data and The SSD Mystique
This week Josh Goldstein argues that big data is an area that can truly benefit from storage innovation based on SSDs. He claims that many organizations are currently constrained in the types of analytics they’re able to perform because it is impossible or uneconomical to perform the queries using today’s storage technology – even when accelerated by SSDs.... Read more…
Big Data I/O Benchmark Gains Steam
Although Fusion-io was the first to break the B-IOP barrier, others in the storage market are stepping with their own unique claims to I/O fame. For instance, today Virident and NEC announced a system that can handle 1.2 million... Read more…
Bar Set for Data-Intensive Supercomputing
This week the San Diego Supercomputer Center introduced the flash-based, shared memory Gordon supercomputer. Built by Appro and sporting capabilities at the 36 million IOPS range, the center's director made no mistake in stating that a new era of data-intensive science has begun. Read more…
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