The sheer volume of ‘Big Data’ produced today by various sectors is beginning to overwhelm even the extremely efficient computational techniques developed to sift through all that information. But a ...

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AI is inspiring organizations to rethink a fundamental IT concept: the data center. For decades, the data center was a centralized place. It was a handful of large, secure facilities where ...

Big-data platform provider WekaIO Inc. said today it has closed on a hefty $135 million late-stage funding round led by Generation Investment Management, doubling its valuation in the process. A host ...

Bill Richter, CEO of Qumulo, said, “From day one, our mission has been to help customers store, manage, and curate data – anywhere and forever. Gartner recognition of Qumulo as a five-time Leader ...

Data is critical to businesses of all sizes, and the idea of being able to store it anywhere and access it everywhere is immensely appealing. This is the promise of global file systems (GFS), which ...

Large-scale applications, such as generative AI, recommendation systems, big data, and HPC systems, require large-capacity ...

Hey, I'm not exactly sure if this is the right place to put this, but since there is no 'filesystem' forum, maybe it fits here. (otherwise please suggest a place) I was just evaluating my future ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

When Zaharia started work on Spark around 2010, analyzing "big data" generally meant using MapReduce, the Java-based ...