In 1993, when Intel ushered in the modern computing age by releasing its Pentium chips, devices roared along at then-astounding speeds of around 60 MHz. Today's mainstream CPUs reach speeds of around ...

Everyone in the storage market is excited about flash. As well they should be. Flash can deliver much better performance than spinning disks. In addition, the cost of flash media is starting to come ...

Daily news stories about phishing scams and endpoint attacks do little to diminish the growing threat of ransomware. This ...

Why is a storage architecture an important component in the organization’s overall media composition and delivery platform? Simply stated, the storage architecture is the foundation that sets the ...

Tech giants such as Amazon, Facebook, and Google have redefined IT for web-scale applications, leveraging standard servers and shared-nothing architectures to ensure maximum operational efficiency, ...

As a poster child for big data, Hadoop is continually brought out as the reference architecture for big data analytics. But what exactly is Hadoop and what are the key points of Hadoop storage ...

HPC environments, by their very nature, tend to be large and are usually quite complex. Whether it’s pushing the boundaries in life and physical sciences or supporting reliable engineering, it takes ...

IBM reports that nearly 15 petabytes of data are created every day; eight times greater than the amount of information stored in all of the libraries in the U.S. The explosion of big data and cloud ...

A common refrain in the tech industry is that artificial intelligence (AI) needs fast storage. While true, speed is not the only consideration when supporting the growing number of AI workloads, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Chief Analyst & CEO, NAND Research. Pure Storage addresses the unique challenges of storage for AI with its new FlashBlade//EXA ...