Analytics is preferable as a label describing the practices that elevates an organisation’s ability to find more value in their data (and other sources of data for that matter). But I know a buzzword when I see one and big data is very entrenched; even though I don’t think it is catchy nor that it [...]
Archive for February, 2012
Big Data and its relevance
Feb 27
Server hypervisors improves utilisation, but what about the attached storage? In fact the server hypervisors are so successful in improving the ability to drive up virtual and physical workloads, that storage can become a casualty. As discussed here earlier. Tintri is another vendor with ideas on how to fix the VMware bottleneck and make a [...]
Having sat through numerous recent briefings about the relative benefits of fast storage, facts have been plentiful. This is about semiconductor based storage. In the following, I refer to this as SSD even though some implementations are not strictly speaking adhering to the SSD definition. SSD Based Innovation Those pesky old-fashioned spinning HDDs have the [...]
Actifio is a provider of a multi-purpose storage appliance which is interesting because it turns storage conventions on their side: Its IP is based on Object Storage It pools all storage which it manages into a single pool. (Although it enables 2nd location copies and different tiers of storage and clones) It operates as an [...]
