By 2012 Facebook stored more than 100PB of photos and videos from its users in what amounted to a giant file server. Data on a file server is actually accessed, rather than sitting in cold storage ...

We look at how Hadoop crunches big data, its key storage requirements and survey the vendors that offer Hadoop storage products. ... This uses HDS CR220S server product with integrated 3TB SATA ...

You don't have to wait for Intel and Micron. Diablo's Memory1 DIMMs are now qualified with several vendors and the price/performance is stunning. Here's what you need to know.

Big data storage: What is big data ... NoSQL and Cassandra as analytics engines, and typically have PCIe flash storage alone in the server or in addition to disk to cut storage latency to a minimum.

Big Data Storage Requires Planning and Policy. Whether planning Big Data storage for speed or capacity, colleges and universities often face a data management challenge. Pennsylvania's Lehigh ...

One petabyte of storage in a single 1U server rack The new drives, with their slimmed-down shapes, are designed for server racks, where Intel says they’ll be able to massively increase the ...

If your big data changes rapidly, old data should be purged or at least moved to low-cost cold storage on the cloud. Finally, cloud cost accounting should be reviewed upfront with your cloud ...