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New Metric System Measurements Reflect World’s Growing Big Data Stores

The sun now weighs two thousand quettagrams, instead of two billion yottagrams, thanks to the world’s ever-increasing big data stores. For the first time since 1991, the International Bureau of Weights and Measures has Read more…

Ocient Emerges with NVMe-Powered Exascale Data Warehouse

There’s only about 1,000 organizations in the world with exascale data analytics problems currently, but Chris Gladwin, the CEO and co-founder of Ocient, knows who most of them are. In the coming months, the tech entre Read more…

Peering Into Computing’s Exascale Future with the IEEE

Computer scientists worried about the end of computing as we know it have been banging heads for several years looking for ways to return to the historical exponential scaling of computer performance. What is needed, say Read more…

DDN Addresses Scalability Wall

Data Direct Networks (DDN) issued a letter to the high performance computing community this week following the supercomputing industry's annual conference that addresses the storage side of the big data and exascale eras that are necessitating I/O innovations. Read more…

IBM Investing Billions in the Big Data Frontier

At a colloquium honoring Big Blue's centennial that explored the four frontiers in IT innovation, IBM's Senior Vice President and Director of Research, John Kelly III pointed to strategic investments in the coming years that emphasize R&D. Among these are big data and associated analytics as well as innovations in machine learning. Read more…

Tape, It’s Not Just for Backup Anymore

A number of storage vendors with tape offerings have been pitching their wares as ripe for the era of big data, but until recently, few have sauntered into exascale territory with their product lines. This week SpectraLogic made key announcements that are meant to expand the horizons of tape for truly big data needs. Read more…

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