SC17: AI, ARM, and Object Storage
EVENT RECAP | The SuperComputing Summit in Denver has been one of the best shows around, full of great ideas and amazing technology.
Enrico Signoretti
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$/GB is No Longer Enough: Let's Talk About $/Data
Before joining OpenIO, I was an independent blogger and analyst, and I worked with most of the object storage vendors on the market. I was fascinated by the potential of this technology, but - after many years - only a few of them have been able to deliver on their promises: a…
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Switch from Public Cloud and Save 400K € per Year
How Teezily - one of our customers - saved 400K €/Year on storage infrastructure switching to hosted bare metal.
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Big Data, In-Memory, and Object Storage
The exponential data growth that we have been seeing in recent years has posed many challenges to those who require information to make…
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Cloud, Edge, and IoT: the Future of Object Storage and Serverless
Cloud computing is not the panacea for all ills and there is a growing interest in complementary approaches and technologies. This is because in many cases, data has to be computed and consumed where it is created.
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Large Capacities and Failure Domains
A few weeks ago, Samsung launched a new 128TB SSD, and last week Sandisk did something similar, announcing a 400GB SD card. These products…
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Rethinking Enterprise File Services
In recent years, I have written several times about files and objects, and about the benefits of having a file frontend associated with an object store at the backend. TCO of storage Buying and managing storage over time is complicated. It's not only about the…
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Overcoming the Limitations of Traditional Object Storage
If you look at the object storage landscape today, you'll find that most available solutions are able to do what you expect from an object…
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S3 Compatibility? It's just an Object Storage Feature
Today, if you want to use object storage, there are a number of very important characteristics that are considered fundamental. The list…
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How to Configure Cloudberry Backup with OpenIO
I'm no longer a sysadmin (not for a long time), but sometimes I have to prove to myself that I'm still capable of doing something, and I also need to check that what I'm telling others is actually true. I recently tried to configure several products at home in order to check…
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The Importance of Performance in Object Storage
We usually consider object storage to be very scalable, but with limited data access speed and latency consistency. These two limitations narrow the range of applications for object stores. The general idea is that you have to trade speed for $/GB and scalability; but this is not the case for…
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Run Applications Directly on the Storage Infrastructure
GridForApps is our event-driven framework for data processing, which enables customers to run applications directly on the object store. This is a radical approach compared to other compute models available on the market, but it makes a lot of sense for those tasks and automations that involve data…
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