Today Cray announced the ClusterStor L300F Lustre-based scalable flash storage solution, designed for applications that need high-performance scratch storage to quickly store and retrieve intermediate results. “Flash is poised to become an essential technology in every HPC storage solution,” said Jeff Janukowicz, IDC’s research vice president, Solid State Drives and Enabling Technologies. “With the ClusterStor L300F, Cray has positioned itself to be at the leading edge of next generation of HPC storage solutions.”
The Effects of Flash Storage on Storage Infrastructure
May 24, 2018 by
Flash storage has attained significant market growth over the years, with enterprise SSD revenues nearly quadrupling between 2012 and 2017. In this guest article, HPE explores how flash storage is changing the landscape of storage infrastructure. “One example is WekaIO, a flash-optimized parallel file system, created for use with high speed networks and architected to provide high IOPS and low latency performance.”
The Future of Infrastructure Design: Data Centric Architecture
May 24, 2018 by
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the all-flash storage platform that helps innovators build a better world with data, unveiled its vision for the future of infrastructure – a Data Centric Architecture. With best-in-class storage purpose-built for modern workloads and challenges, Pure Storage helps “New meet Now” by continuing to deliver next-generation technology and collaborative partnerships that empower organizations to innovate.
Pure Storage Announces AIRI™ Mini: Complete, AI-Ready Infrastructure for Everyone
May 23, 2018 by
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the all-flash storage platform that helps innovators build a better world with data, today announced its second AI-Ready Infrastructure offering, AIRI™ Mini, powered by NVIDIA. Architected by Pure Storage and NVIDIA, AIRI is purpose-built to enable data architects, scientists and business leaders to extend the power of the NVIDIAⓇ DGX-1™ system.
DDN and Parabricks Announce Solution for GPU Acceleration of Genome Analysis
May 16, 2018 by
DDN Storage (DDN®) and Parabricks announced the availability of a jointly-integrated technology solution that provides massive acceleration for analysis of human genomes. The breakthrough platform combines GPU supercomputing performance with DDN’s Parallel Flash Data Platforms for fastest time to results, and enables unprecedented capabilities for high-throughput genomics analysis pipelines.
Pure Storage Announces Significant Customer Momentum for AI and ML Workloads
October 18, 2017 by
Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), a leading independent all-flash data platform vendor for the cloud era, announced significant customer momentum for FlashBlade™, the system purpose-built for modern analytics. Since general availability in January 2017, FlashBlade has gained traction among organizations running and innovating with emerging workloads, specifically modern analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
IBM Supports New Faster Protocols for NVMe Flash Storage
May 8, 2017 by
Today IBM announced its development of Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) solutions to provide clients the ability to significantly lower latencies in an effort to speed data to and from storage solutions and systems. “IBM’s developers are re-tooling the end-to-end storage stack to support this new, faster interconnect protocol to boost the experience of everyone consuming the massive amounts of data now being perpetuated across cloud services, retail, banking, travel and other industries.”
One Stop Systems Rolls Out Rugged 4U All-Flash Array Data Storage Unit
February 21, 2017 by
Today One Stop Systems introduced an all-flash array Data Storage Unit. The Data Storage Unit is available in both a rugged version and a commercial version. The rugged version as deployed in a military aircraft is an all-flash array capable of supplying 200TB of usable PCIe NVMe flash and a DOD approved flash file system that has been a part of numerous government programs. “One Stop Systems’ expertise in PCIe expansion has helped evolve our flash products from purely expansion systems to powerful all-flash arrays,” said Steve Cooper, OSS CEO. “All-flash arrays have increasingly replaced traditional spinning disks in environments ranging from mobile devices to data centers and defense vehicles. Both the commercial and the rugged versions provide a new level of performance for applications such as real-time HPC analytics, big data and high speed data recording.”
Startup Video: Architecting Flash for Scale and Performance in HPC
February 8, 2017 by
“High Performance Computing (HPC) is considered the unlimited class of computing where performance is all that matters. Increasingly, business enterprises are looking to apply the technology and techniques from HPC to help them solve their complex business challenges. Weka.IO’s CTO, Liran Zvibel, will discuss how affordable HPC class storage performance and scale can be achieved using Flash technology and a hardware independent software architecture.”
IBM Rolls Out All-flash Storage for Cognitive Workloads
January 12, 2017 by
“The DS8880 All-Flash family is targeted at users that have experienced poor storage performance due to latency, low server utilization, high energy consumption, low system availability and high operating costs. These same users have been listening, learning and understand the data value proposition of being a cognitive business,” said Ed Walsh, general manager, IBM Storage and Software Defined Infrastructure. “In the coming year we expect an awakening by companies to the opportunity that cognitive applications, and hybrid cloud enablement, bring them in a data driven marketplace.”
