Big Data and Storage

RESEARCH PAPER: Is Dell Driving the Open Future of Networking?

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Enterprise Networking, Research, Research Papers / May 1, 2020

While enterprise computing and storage have both gone through a standardization metamorphosis, enterprise networking has lagged. Enterprise networking remains one of the few areas of proprietary vertical integration in IT. But the need for businesses to move faster and be more agile is putting pressure on IT to adjust to strategies that will help their businesses …

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RESEARCH PAPER: HP: Protecting Printers With Enterprise Grade Security

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter, Enterprise Networking, Internet of Things IoT, Personal Computing, Research, Research Papers, Server, Smartphone, Tablet / May 1, 2020

In today’s Internet of Things (IoT) environment, security is not only critical, it’s essential. Newly connected IoT devices such as thermostats, vending machines, HDTV’s and wearables create some of the largest potential security gaps in the IT infrastructure. As users demand mobility, cloud-based applications and collaboration, both inside and outside their company or organizations firewalls, the threat …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Is “Scalable Blade” an Oxymoron?

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Research, Research Papers, Server / May 1, 2020

Blade servers solved the problem of density for businesses, but they did so with compromises that limited their appeal for many applications. As complexity of both applications and environments grew, blade infrastructures were limited in their effectiveness for the task. Customers were relegated to lower-density rack servers for their more scalable applications. And while purpose-built …

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RESEARCH PAPER: Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) is Intel’s Future for the Datacenter

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Research, Research Papers, Server / May 1, 2020

Moor Insights & Strategy believes that IT is on the cusp of a major datacenter architecture transition. This transition will be driven by 24×7 global business reach, dramatically increased use and depth of business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytics (Big Data), and pushing sensors and intelligence into our physical world in the form of the …

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ARM-Based Processors In Storage Servers: Why Would Anyone Do That?

By / Big Data and Storage / February 13, 2016

If you’re listening to VMware’s CEO Pat Gelsinger at VMWorld yesterday, the question of whether ARM-based processors might fit well into storage servers boils down to a straight-up processor performance and drivercompatibility issue.  As reported yesterday, Gelsinger reportedly says, “Even if you reduced the power consumption of ARM CPUs to zero,” x86 will still win”.  First, is …

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RESEARCH NOTE: Are Wimpy Cores Good for Brawny Storage?

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter, Research, Research Papers / May 1, 2020

When could “wimpy” cores beat brawny ones? They have potential to do so in large-scale distributed storage deployments. This paper explores performance and resiliency tradeoffs enabled by using Calxeda’s ARM-based EnergyCore processors and their fabric-based system level architecture as the underpinning for a Ceph distributed object store implementation. Calxeda, Inktank, and Penguin announced a partnership …

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Intel’s Disaggregated Server Rack Is A… Mainframe Replacement?

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter / February 13, 2016

There’s been a lot of discussion about “disaggregated” servers, racks and datacenters since Facebook and Intel promoted their vision for the phrase at the Open Compute Summit at the start of this year.  Haven’t we spent the last few decades disaggregating datacenter architecture? And if so, what does disaggregation mean now, is it something different? I’ll try to be succinct as …

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RESEARCH NOTE: Intel’s Disaggregated Server Rack

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Research, Research Papers / May 1, 2020

Does “Disaggregation” Really Mean Anything? There’s been a lot of discussion about “disaggregated” servers, racks, and datacenters since Facebook and Intel promoted their vision for the phrase at the Open Compute Summit at the start of this year.  Haven’t we spent the last few decades disaggregating datacenter architecture?  And if so, what does disaggregation mean …

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HP’s New Servers Take a Page from the Smartphone Playbook

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter / June 6, 2013

Yesterday, HP launched the Moonshot 1500 server, targeted at scale-out datacenters that drive today’s and tomorrow’s mobile applications, internet, big data and IoT. In its its first instantiation, Moonshot increases density, or the numbers of servers in a given space, by up to 8X. So for every rack of HP Proliant servers today, you could put up …

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RESEARCH PAPER: HP Moonshot- An Accelerator for Hyperscale Workloads

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Research, Research Papers / May 1, 2020

Hyperscale data center customers have specialized workloads, and they are asking for specialized architectures and equipment to accelerate those workloads, with the goal of increasing data center density while decreasing power consumption and other costs.   In 2010, HP gave its Moonshot team a charter to break out of HP’s mainstream enterprise value propositions. Creating differentiation …

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HP Moonshot: Say Goodbye to the Vanilla Server

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter / February 13, 2016

HP launched today a game-changing line of servers called the HP Moonshot 1500. It is easily their biggest server launch sinceHP introduced the industry’s first X86-based server in 1989.   At a high level, the Moonshot 1500 is the beginning of the slow death of the vanilla, homogenous server and the rise of specialized servers for …

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WHITE PAPER: NextIO Enables Multivendor Converged Datacenters

By / Big Data and Storage, Datacenter / April 26, 2013

Industry standard x86 server node performance has been improving at an increased pace as core counts and memory capacities have increased. This rapidly increasing compute density is driving a commensurate increase in the costs of implementing in-rack network architectures. The challenge is how to maintain a multivendor, best-in-class datacenter. One good solution is to consolidate …

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Dell’s End-to-End Play is a Long Way from Personal Computers

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Personal Computing / September 28, 2015

As I go back analyze content from Dell’s second annual Dell World conference, one theme in particular stands out – Dell’s E2E (end to end) vision and strategy.  Dell as a CTO (configure to order) PC manufacturer is somewhat of a distantmemory now, which shines an even brighter light on their E2E capabilities.   In a nutshell, Dell …

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Dell’s “Five Forces” Will Define its Future

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Smartphone, Tablet / December 30, 2012

Dell held its second annual Dell World conference in Austin, Texas last week.  This young and energetic conference was a refreshingly honestand candid look at Dell’s transformation from PC assembly to global services and solutions.  Where most corporate conferences focus on selling what’s in or about to enter the sales cycle, Dell World focused on telling Dell’s story for the rest …

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Dell’s CMO Karen Quintos on Dell World 2012

By / Big Data and Storage, Cloud Services and Enterprise Software, Datacenter, Social Media / December 9, 2012

Dell World, Dell‘s conference on IT thought leadership, kicks off on December 12 and is expected to draw thousands to Austin, Texas.  This is the company’s second annual Dell World and will be highlighted by luminaries such as former president Bill Clinton, Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, authors ofFreakonomics and SuperFreakanomics, andMichael Dell, Dell’s founder and CEO. It is a critical point …

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