Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term that can apply to various computing tasks, including machine learning, deep learning, and big data analytics. Many AI projects are in a proof of concept stage, but CIOs and IT Managers need to…
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Creating an Accessible Archive for Media and Entertainment
The traditional Media and Entertainment (M&E) market is exploding with new producers of content for movies and television. It is also seeing significant growth in sports television, corporate training and worship broadcasting. All of these content creators benefit from a…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud, HPC, M&E, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Scale-Out
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Posted in Briefing Note
Solving the Billion Files Problem
Most file system management tools – whether they are for reporting, governance, backup, archiving, migration, cloud bursting, or content classification – start developing performance problems when the total number of files and directories exceeds a hundred million. The performance challenges…
Tagged with: Flash, HPC, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NAS, NVMe, Starfish Storage
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Posted in Briefing Note
Flash Memory Summit 2019 – Day 2 Wrap Up
The second day of Flash Memory Summit (FMS) was another busy one for Storage Switzerland, including presenting with Jay Kramer, an FMS founder and CEO of Network Storage Advisors. (Briefing 1 and 2 are available in our post “Flash Memory…
Flash Memory Summit 2019 – Day 1
Storage Switzerland is at the 2019 edition of the Flash Memory Summit (FMS). Each day of the summit, we will be providing a quick summary of our meetings. Day 1 was a busy day for StorageSwiss as we raced from…
Tagged with: AI, DRAM, Flash, Flash memory, flash memory summit, FMS2019, HPC, NVMe, Pavilion Data, SAS, SATA
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Making HPC Available to the Masses – Dell Technologies HPC Briefing Note
With businesses beginning to rely on analytics, machine and deep learning (ML and DL), and artificial intelligence (AI) to run daily processes and generate competitive advantage, high-performance computing (HPC) is becoming more applicable outside of its traditional niche use cases,…
Consumption-Based IT with No Minimum Commitment – Lenovo TruScale Briefing Note
The modern data center infrastructure market is characterized by the need for improved agility and responsiveness, and to make more strategic use of IT budgets. Cloud computing has introduced the concept of subscription-based IT service delivery, but it lacks on-premises…
Tagged with: AI, Big data, Cloud, Consumption, DAS, HPC, Hyperconverged, IaaS, Lenovo, MSP, SAN, Tape
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Overcoming NFS as a Machine Learning Inhibitor – Quobyte Briefing Note
In today’s insights economy, much can be gleaned from the hyperscale cloud (Amazon, Google, Azure) providers’ ability to deliver an infrastructure that provides strong degrees of data resiliency and protection, agility, and performance – with minimal intervention from storage administrators.…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, HDD, HPC, Hyperscale, IoT, ML, NFS, NVMe, Object Storage, QOS, Quobyte, SSD
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Posted in Briefing Note
Enterprise Class Open SDS – SUSE Enterprise Storage 5.5 Briefing Note
Software Defined Storage (SDS) promises to free organizations from storage hardware lock-in, and to some degree that is true. The problem is SDS then locks the customer into the storage software. Moving from one SDS solution to another is a…
Tagged with: Archive, Big data, CEPH, Cloud, HPC, NFS, Object Storage, Open Source, Scale, SDS, SMB, SUSE
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Lightboard Video: The Changing Role of Object Storage in HPC Environments
High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments typically use parallel file systems as the core of their storage architecture. These environments also tend to leverage object storage as a near-line long-term repository of data. Object storage systems though, thanks to improved hardware and…
