High-energy physicists working at the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern in Switzerland are benefiting from a NoSQL database management system that gives them unified access to data from a slew ...
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It's arguable that two key things have driven developments in storage this year; server/desktop virtualisation and the relentless expansion of data. The first of these has led to real changes, namely the growth of flash in the datacentre. ...
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Clustered NAS capability is a major event theme for NetApp at its Insight partner event in Dublin this week, but very few customers have switched to the true clustering capability that debuted in version 8.1.1 of its Data ONTAP operating ...
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NetApp has topped-and-tailed capacities in its midrange filer family, introducing the FAS3220 and FAS3250. Both products come with clustered NAS, unified storage (NAS and SAN) and flash cache acceleration capability. The FAS3220 and ...
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The Large Hadron Collider(LHC),which aims to answer fundamental questions of the universe's existence,is one of CERN's most important projects.But as the LHC produces 1PB of data every second,big data and lack of computing resources were ...
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Dutch cloud provider McCloud has chosen Amplidata object storage to support its remote backup services,over clustered NAS products from HP and NetApp. McCloud–which spoke to Computer Weekly at SNW Europe in Frankfurt this ...
Tags: Cloud backup, Amplidata object, remote backup services, NAS
The European Organisation for Nuclear Research–better known as CERN and home of the Large Hadron Collider–has implemented clustered NAS in its 2PB estate of NetApp filers. The organisation switched on clustered NAS ...
Tags: NAS capability, CERN, Clustering, file system