Will It Compose?
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Big Data Drives Need to Rethink Infrastructure
08/12/2018Big Data is exploding. The 3 V’s of Big Data – volume, variety, and velocity – cause unpredictability for IT organizations trying to get ahead of their infrastructure needs. And [...]
A Game-Changing Approach to Flash
06/07/2018DriveScale reached a significant milestone this week with the launch of the first software composable flash solution. After pioneering the composability of compute and disk storage, we extended the benefits [...]
Shifting the Problem – It’s not mine…..
04/10/2018A classic misdirection in almost any unforeseen situation that is problematic, is to focus the attention on something unrelated and question if the issue exists somewhere else. That is to [...]
Michael Dell says on-premises is more effective. We agree.
04/03/2018In a recent interview with CRN magazine, Michael Dell made the argument that “when you automate and modernize the infrastructure…..an on-premises solution is much more cost effective”. You can read [...]
There is but one truly important question
03/26/2018Have any of you read “The Fabric of the Cosmos” by Brian Greene? He starts out the first chapter by describing the opening pages of a dusty old book that [...]
Deep Learning with DriveScale
11/27/2017I had the privilege of attending the DellEMC HPC Community meeting prior to the SuperComputing '17 conference. There was a lot of discussion of Deep Learning as a rapidly growing [...]
Business benefits of a Software Composable Infrastructure
09/19/2017Introduction Software Composable Infrastructure is the next evolution in data center computing infrastructure that is designed to disaggregate hardware components and subsequently combine these disparate elements in an intelligent manner, [...]
Of Pets, Cattle, and Cabbage!
07/12/2017N.B. This is the text of a position paper I submitted to the 17th International Workshop on High Performance Transaction Systems. In the past 10 years or so, Ethernet link [...]
Composable Infrastructure Meets Commodity Hardware
07/06/2017Gordon Grosse of MCSA has recently written an excellent article on Composable Infrastructure (CI). He lays out the evolution of data center technology from traditional to converged to hyper-converged to composable. At DriveScale we [...]
DataWorks Summit ReCap
06/19/2017The conference formerly known as Hadoop Summit, DataWorks Summit, just happened June 13-15,2017 in San Jose, CA. . Lots of big take-aways; here are my faves. The conference had a bunch more [...]