Distributed clouds are popular in enterprises due to the large volume of IT assets and applications in enterprise environments. However, complex networks like distributed clouds increase the surface ...

The early sales pitch for cloud computing was: “Put your data in our massive cloud regions and we’ll take care of processing and storing it for you.” The vision was of a one-way flow of data and ...

Data is distributed. By its very nature, we work with enterprise-level data across different documents, applications, databases and deeper systems; the fact that we can distribute any single piece of ...

Despite the many changes in data storage over the decades, some fundamentals remain. One of these is that storage is accessed by one of three methods – block, file and object. This article will define ...

The Distributed Cloud Infrastructure Insights eBook by Panduit explores the rapid evolution of cloud computing architectures, with a spotlight on the shift from traditional public cloud models to ...

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August 21, 2018 Nicole Hemsoth Prickett Cloud Comments Off on Alibaba Rolls Own Distributed File System for Cloud Database Performance There is much value in separating storage from compute, ...

Ultimately, every problem in the constantly evolving IT software stack becomes a database problem, which is why there are 418 different databases and datastores in the DB Engines rankings and there ...