Composing a Pure Storage FlashArray
09/17/2020An optimized disaggregated data center consists of thin (“diskless”) clients and dense storage nodes (that are increasingly JBOFs in our solid state world), all connected with a high speed [...]
Seagate and DriveScale: Framework for an Elastic Bare Metal Data Center
09/03/2020As I mentioned in the previous post, Seagate and DriveScale solutions for optimizing your data center architecture exist today. Composable Infrastructure is a technique for implementing the optimized disaggregated [...]
An Early History of git
08/14/2020In my experience, nothing inflames the passions of software developers like a discussion about source code control tools. You can't make this stuff up. At nearly every company I’ve [...]
WD F3200 flash device is ‘open, fast, composable’
08/13/2020
Designing Shared Storage for Hadoop, Elastic, Kafka, TensorFlow. As analytics environments like Hadoop, Elastic, Kafka and TensorFlow continue to scale, organizations need to find a way to create a shared infrastructure that can deliver the bandwidth, flexibility, and efficiency that these environments need. In a recent Storage Intensity podcast, Tom Lyon, founder and chief scientist of DriveScale and George Crump, Lead Analyst of Storage Switzerland, sat down to discuss a wide range of subjects including Non-Volatile Memory express, (NVMe), Non-Volatile Memory express over Fabric (NVMe-oF), and Composable Infrastructures.
Seagate and DriveScale Solution Is Ready To Go!
08/06/2020Seagate and DriveScale have partnered to deliver a solution to customers looking to optimize their storage performance while gaining manageability and significantly reducing costs by separating compute and storage [...]
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 [...]