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Storage performance
Write side up - by Freeform Dynamics
Hard drives that do their own data processing
Freeform Dynamics 02 Apr 2019It’s getting hard these days to find places where container technology doesn’t feature, but in a hard drive? Yet that’s what is being explored in one of the Storage Networking Industry Association ...
Quocirca Insights
Open for business: Hortonworks aims for open source profitability
Quocirca 19 Apr 2017It used to be the Hadoop Summit, but the strategic focus at Hortonworks the enterprise-ready open source Apache Hadoop provider, has evolved. So, this year it was renamed DataWorks Summit. The ...
StorageBuzz
NVMe gives "shared DAS" as an answer for analytics; but raises questions too
Storage Editor 16 Feb 2017Go back 10 or 20 years and direct-attached disk was the norm. IE, just disk in a server. It all became a bit unfashionable as the virtualisation revolution hit datacentres. Having siloed disk in ...
Veritas and Red Hat have announced a collaboration aimed at supporting business critical enterprise applications on OpenStack. Essentially, the work here is focused on providing predictable quality ...
Open Source Insider
MariaDB: you want transactional AND massively parallelised analytic workloads?
05 Apr 2016MariaDB ColumnStore is Open Source GPL2, a fork based on InfiniDB and open source community contributions.
It has been an interesting month in object storage, with developments that push the technology along but also provided an interesting footnote regarding file access that illustrate an interesting ...
The open source cross-platform document-oriented database company MongoDB has reached version 3.0 this month.
The open source cross-platform document-oriented database company MongoDB has acquired WiredTiger for its database storage engine technology.
OpenStorage provider Nexenta Systems is aiming to use its forthcoming appearance at VMworld Europe later in October to showcase its so-called 'Hands on Lab' (HOL) demos