The EMC IsilonSD product family combines the power of Isilon scale-out NAS with the economy of software-defined storage. IsilonSD Edge is purpose built to address the needs associated with growing unstructured data in enterprise edge location including remote and branch offices.
EMC Isilon Scale-Out Data Lake Foundation
August 26, 2016 by Leave a Comment
IDC believes that EMC Isilon is indeed an easy to operate, highly scalable and efficient Enterprise Data Lake Platform. IDC validated that a shared storage model based on the Data Lake can in fact provide enterprise-grade service-levels while performing better than dedicated commodity off-the-shelf storage for Hadoop workloads.
EMC Isilon Cloudpools: The Data Lake to the Cloud
August 26, 2016 by Leave a Comment
EMC Isilon Cloudpools software provides policy-based automated tiering that lets you seamlessly integrate with the cloud as on additional storage tier for the isilon cluster at your data center.
Video: DSSD Scalable High Performance FLASH Systems
May 3, 2016 by
Jeff Bonwick from EMC DSSD presented this talk at the MSST conference. “Jeff Bonwick is co-founder and CTO of DSSD, where he co-invented both the system hardware architecture and the Flood software stack. His talk will focus on extracting maximum performance from flash at scale. Jeff has a long history of developing at-scale storage starting with leading the team that developed the ZFS filesystem, which powers Oracle’s ZFS storage line as well as numerous startups including Nexenta, Delphix, Joyent, and Datto.”
Interview: Jeff Bonwick on the Secret Sauce behind DSSD
April 28, 2016 by
We caught up Jeff Bonwick from DSSD to learn more about their exciting storage technology for HPC. “Our mission statement was four words: fastest storage on earth. That was our singular goal from day one, which gave the team incredible focus and clarity. Whenever we had to make a tradeoff between performance and something else, performance always won. Always. And it just so happens that when you aim for performance, density comes along for the ride because the more flash chips you have working in parallel, the faster it goes.”
Radio Free HPC Looks at Dell’s Imminent Acquisition of EMC
March 4, 2016 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Dell’s acquisition of EMC, which is expected to close soon pending regulatory approval. “The transaction combines two of the world’s greatest technology franchises—with leadership positions in Servers, Storage, Virtualization and PCs—and brings together strong capabilities in the fastest growing areas of our industry, including Digital Transformation, Software Defined Data Center, Hybrid Cloud, Converged Infrastructure, Mobile and Security.”
Podcast: Big Data on the Wrangler Supercomputer
December 11, 2015 by
In this TACC podcast, Niall Gaffney from the Texas Advanced Computing Center discusses the Wrangler supercomputer for data-intensive computing. “We went to propose to build Wrangler with (the data world) in mind. We kept a lot of what was good with systems like Stampede, but then added new things to it like a very large flash storage system, a very large distributed spinning disc storage system, and high speed network access to allow people who have data problems that weren’t being fulfilled by systems like Stampede and Lonestar to be able to do those in ways that they never could before.”
Interview: Brent Gorda from Intel on the Keys to Startup Innovation for HPC
November 6, 2015 by
“Successful startups are the ones who have knowledge and a strong focus on a problem to solve. Knowledge comes from experience and there is no better way to accumulate that than working at one of the HPC facilities in the US or abroad. In fact I participated in this directly, moving to the US to work at a DOE lab. These opportunities still exist but the Labs often find it difficult to compete with Facebook and Google. If you are able to attend SC15 in Austin, you absolutely must visit the booths on the show floor and engage with the staff and seek out opportunities that exist. Again, SC is where the industry meets research and amazing things happen: go make it happen for you!”
Radio Free HPC Looks at Dell’s Acquisition of EMC
October 13, 2015 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks Dell’s pending acquisition of EMC. “Dell Inc. and EMC Corporation have signed a definitive agreement under which Dell, together with its owners, Michael S. Dell, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell, MSD Partners and Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing, will acquire EMC Corporation, while maintaining VMware as a publicly-traded company.”
