object storage
Is All-Flash Storage Needed for Deep Learning?
Organizations building deep learning data pipelines may struggle with their accelerated I/O needs, and whenever I/O is the question, the usual answer is “throw flash/SSD at it.” Certainly expensive ...Full Article
AI Strategies: Mitigating Data Gravity with Hybrid Cloud and Object Storage
We live in a data-driven world. Successful, leading companies have mastered and operationalized the process of extracting insight and intelligence from all the data collected continuously. The use of ...Full Article
Cloudian, Seagate Partner on AI Cloud Storage
Data storage technology vendors Cloudian and Seagate Technology are teaming on a private cloud storage platform aimed at AI and network edge workloads. The storage partners said they are ...Full Article
Google Offers Fixed-Price Cloud Storage
Thomas Kurian, who succeeded Diane Greene last November as chief of Google Cloud, has been outspoken about plans to compete more aggressively in the cutthroat public cloud market. ...Full Article
Fujitsu Builds Big Data Processor on Ceph
Addressing the growing need for speedier processing in big data storage systems that handle everything up to data analytics, Japan’s Fujitsu Laboratories has come up with a technology said ...Full Article
As Object Storage Booms, Analytics Issues Emerge
With object-based storage capacity predicted to grow at double-digit annual rates over the next several years, attention is turning to shortcomings such as barriers to data visibility and difficulties ...Full Article
Docker Founder Joins Blockchain Storage Startup
Serial entrepreneur Ben Golub, co-founder and former CEO of application container pioneer Docker Inc., has landed at a blockchain-based cloud startup called Storj Labs. The Atlanta-based company launched in ...Full Article
Cloudian Partnership Expands Its Object Storage Platform
Seeking to capitalize on the growth of object storage and the reluctance of companies to delete data that could one day prove useful, cloud object storage specialist Cloudian has ...Full Article
Scality Extends Multi-Cloud Storage to Azure
A host of infrastructure vendors are attempting to broaden their cloud footprint as more enterprises hedge their bets with hybrid and multi-cloud strategies. Among them is software-defined object and ...Full Article
Facebook Expected to Move WhatsApp Off IBM SoftLayer
In a potential blow to IBM’s efforts to carve out a major share of the intensely competitive public cloud services market, Facebook is reportedly in the process of moving ...Full Article