How many times have you heard business executives say something along the lines of “IT investments are an overhead, while an investment in sales goes directly to the bottom line?” If you have, I...
The Advantages of IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) vs. HDFS for Big Data
IBM’s Spectrum Scale! Have you not heard of it yet? Spectrum Scale is IBM’s GPFS file system widely used for large scale enterprise clustered file systems that need to scale up to petabytes of...
Tiering Up: The Data Storage Balancing Act for Businesses
When most people think of computing data storage, they think in terms of USB thumb drives, recordable CDs and DVDs and, of course, cloud storage solutions. Such storage options work very well when...
Tiering Up: Businesses Can Decrease Storage Expense Using Tier 0
IT business storage requirements today must adhere to a labyrinth of confusing and contradictory government- and industry-decreed regulations. Increasingly, every bit and byte of data has to be...