Throwback Thursday: The multicore crisis
01/16/2020R is definitely for rabbit holes. I was reading a time travel trilogy, and the author Rysa Walker inserted short stories 1.5 and 2.5 to bridge the three novels. The [...]
Designing Shared Storage for Hadoop, Elastic, Kafka, TensorFlow
01/15/2020
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.
Storage Newsletter: 2020 Predictions From 48 Storage Vendors – Part One
01/10/2020
Predictions for 2020 from DriveScale included in the Storage Newsletter online publication, featuring Private Cloud, Smart Nic and Kubernetes.
Ten Predictions that Will Shape IT in 2020
01/06/2020If 2019 was any example, 2020 will be filled with technology innovation and IT data center transformation. Let’s take a look at our predictions for 2020: The new private [...]
Tom Lyon guest on the podcast “On the Metal”
01/03/2020Tom Lyon joins Bryan Cantrill and Jessie Frazelle to nerd out on first calculators, as Tom shares stories from his days at Princeton, being mistaken for someone from sales and [...]
McKinsey on Transforming Infrastructure Operations
12/30/2019According to McKinsey & Company in their article Transforming infrastructure operations for a hybrid-cloud world, October 2019, “In total, about 65% of workloads will continue to be hosted in [...]
KubeCon 2019 wrap up
11/27/2019KubeCon + CloudNative North America 2019 Conference (KubeCon) just ended. I wanted to jot down some impressions while they were fresh in my mind. The talks I found most [...]
C is for Container
11/19/2019In this second post of a four-part series, we restart our Kubernetes journey with containers. Microsoft tells us that: Containers are a technology for packaging and running Windows and [...]
K is for Kubernetes
11/14/2019Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, recently said “Kubernetes is driving the biggest shift in enterprise architecture since Java, virtualization and cloud…”Well, that seems to clarify what you should be [...]
Breaking Up and Making Up: Composable Persistent Storage for Kubernetes
11/11/2019
Kubernetes is rapidly emerging as the standard for application management in the data center.