Follow Datanami:

Tag: storage

SSDs and the New Scientific Revolution

SSDs are anything but a flash in the pan for big science. With news of the world’s most powerful data-intensive systems leveraging the storage technology, including the new Gordon supercomputer, and other new “big data” research centers tapping into the wares... Read more…

Finland’s Big Data Storage Leap

Finland-based CSC, the government-sponsored Center for Science Ltd., provides the balance between academic and industry R&D and IT resource management in the country. In an effort to address its massive storage needs, the organization announced key multi-million-Euro.... Read more…

Extending Dispersed Storage

In the midst of all the din in the storage industry around big data, Chicago-based Cleversafe has found some distinction due to its dispersed storage approach. This week they built on prior announcements related to exabyte-ready storage..... Read more…

Supercomputing Center Set to Become Big Data Hub

This week one of the United States' largest HPC and scientific visualization centers announced a $10 million commitment from the O’Donnell Foundation to enhance their data-intensive science capabilities. We check in with TACC head, Dr. Jay Boisseau to find out what new HPC, big data purchases are in their future and how.... Read more…

Alpine Data Climbs Analytics Mountain

Startup Alpine Data Labs recognized the recent changes in database and HPC technologies and has capitalized on the need to update antiquated data mining techniques. This week the company's head discussed some of the challenges of the.... Read more…

Hollywood Sharpens Focus on Storage

Data storage is not new to the entertainment industry; a referral to any feature length film created by Pixar, for example, will reveal large storage requirements. Companies like Amplidata are seeking to address these needs with storage capabilities that.... Read more…

Big Data and The SSD Mystique

This week Josh Goldstein argues that big data is an area that can truly benefit from storage innovation based on SSDs. He claims that many organizations are currently constrained in the types of analytics they’re able to perform because it is impossible or uneconomical to perform the queries using today’s storage technology – even when accelerated by SSDs.... Read more…

Big Data I/O Benchmark Gains Steam

Although Fusion-io was the first to break the B-IOP barrier, others in the storage market are stepping with their own unique claims to I/O fame. For instance, today Virident and NEC announced a system that can handle 1.2 million... Read more…

Fusion-io Flashes the Future of Storage

It has been quite a year for Fusion-io, the Salt Lake City-based purveyor of a new type of storage memory platform that moves time-critical data closer to the CPU for more rapid processing. From its growing presence in supercomputing circles to its adoption at a number of web-based retail.... 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…

Solving Big Data Storage at CERN

As a research facility that seeks to understand the universe itself, CERN is churning away at problems at generate over 25 petabytes of information each year. This week a tape story found its way out of the center via an announcement from SpectraLogic. Read more…

Interview: Cray CEO Sees Big Future in Big Data

During the this year's annual Supercomputing Conference (SC11) in Seattle, Cray's home turf, we caught up with the company's CEO, Peter Ungaro to talk about the increasing meld between big data and traditional supercomputing--and what this blend could portend for Cray going forward. Read more…

The Path to Personalized Medicine

Life sciences research and development professionals are among the first to claim an insatiable need for robust management, storage and compute resources. According to one researcher, the cloud and new research groups are providing valuable partnerships that are making personalized medicine a reality. Read more…

SC11 Video Feature: Garth Gibson on RAID, Roots and Reliability

In this video feature, we sit down with Garth Gibson, co-founder and CTO of high performance storage company, Panasas. During our chat we touch on the roots of his company, explore the way file systems have evolved to meet new demands, and wrap up with a section on big data and the storage demands behind it. Read more…

Live from SC11: The Storage Cost of Rendering

This week during SC11 we spoke with the CEO of Scalable Informatics, Joe Landman, about big data storage in the entertainment industry and how these needs carry over to other verticals, including financial services. Read more…

The Big Data Opportunity for HPC

Sponsored Content

Big data is opening doors to previously untouched markets outside of the traditional HPC realm. The potential for HPC to find an expanded path into new market segments is being driven by a range of applications that stand to benefit from the performance and I/O offered by high-performance storage, networks, and computation.<br id="tinymce" class="mceContentBody " /> Read more…

DDN Intros New Big Data Appliances

Today Data Direct Networks unveiled a new product series that focuses on the needs of data-intensive applications. The SFA12K line is aimed at improving latency for big data workloads. Read more…

EMC Isilon Loosens Storage Shackles at SCI

EMC Isilon announced a big win this week at the University of Utah's Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute (SCI). The research center deployed its scale-out NAS solution to reduce complexity and unify resources. Read more…

HDS Makes Big Data Triple Play

Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced its three-pronged approach to big data management via its infrastructure, content and information clouds. The company hopes to draw from previous acquisitions and new cloud approaches to capture new business. Read more…

Newer Entries
Datanami