Now is the time to retool your infrastructure
07/28/2020There is currently a great deal of uncertainty resulting from the pandemic and its impact on the economy. Companies are hesitant to invest in their data center infrastructure. I’d [...]
Persistent Volumes: Separating Compute and Storage
06/26/2020The Kubernetes documentation states that “managing storage is a distinct problem from managing compute instances.” This recapitulates a fundamental tenet of modern data center design, that compute and storage [...]
New AI/ML and Genomics Benchmarks Coming
06/16/2020Ken Cantrell and Nick Principe presented two additional proposed workloads being developed and considered by the SPEC Storage Committee – Genomics and AI/ML workloads – for the SPEC Storage [...]
The Scale in DriveScale
06/12/2020The DriveScale Composable Infrastructure solution was built with modern application design approaches in mind. Trends have conspired to make the divide-and-conquer approach of scale-out be the prevalent technique to [...]
D is for DriveScale
05/08/2020In the much anticipated series finale of this four- part series we bring you the DriveScale Solution. Did you miss the first three parts? Catch up: Part 1, Part 2 and [...]
DriveScale Announces Support for Western Digital’s OpenFlex Architecture to Provide Customers with Open Composable Infrastructure Solutions
05/05/2020Company Participating in Industry’s First Open Composable Compatibility Lab to Ensure Rigorous Interoperability Testing and to Help Customers Design and Integrate Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure SUNNYVALE, CA, May 5, 2020 [...]
S is for Scale Out
04/14/2020Picking up where we left off in this four-part series, we move into part three to explore Scale-out. (For a refresher visit Part 1 and Part 2.) “Scale-out” exists [...]
DriveScale Announces Support for Intel® Optane™ DC SSDs for NVMe-over-Fabrics
03/24/2020Disaggregated Storage Gets Supercharged for Latency-Sensitive, High Throughput Workloads in Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics with DriveScale and Intel Optane SUNNYVALE, CA, March 24, 2020 – DriveScale, Inc., [...]
DriveScale Announces Support for OpenStack to Enable Elastic Bare Metal Infrastructure for Bare Metal Cloud Operators
03/10/2020OpenStack Users Now Have the Ability to Program and Instantly Adapt Scale-Out Storage Infrastructure On-the-Fly SUNNYVALE, CA, March 10, 2020 – – DriveScale, Inc., the leading innovator of elastic [...]
Disaggregated Commodity Storage Becoming Industry Standard
03/04/2020The logical separation of compute and storage has become increasingly formalized in Kubernetes via subsystems like the Container Storage Interface (CSI). CSI is a flexible storage interface that allows [...]