Amit Golander, Author at plexistor

The Storage Olympics

posted on August 2, 2016 by Amit Golander

No Doping Scandal Here! Maybe a few dopes, though. After all, anyone can compete in the Storage System Olympics. Do you have an extent-based design written entirely in a defunct minicomputer company’s command line scripting language? Bring it on. Tuned for throughput, with musclebound 200 megabyte gulps lumbering down the test rig, you might score a Gold Medal for Throughput. Even if your Frankenstein monster is useless in the real world. Or [...]

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS just got better

posted on July 21, 2016 by Amit Golander

Today Ubuntu 16.04 reached maturity - the Long Term Support (LTS) phase. This is a big deal, because most Canonical users move from one LTS version to another, every two years, while skipping the minor intermediate versions. I won't bore you with how Ubuntu server 16.04 is better than the previous 14.04 LTS version. Just imagine how much progress was made in Docker and the Linux Kernel in two years. Entire [...]

Action!

posted on June 30, 2016 by Amit Golander

Last week we had the honor of meeting a dozen sharp technology analysts. A lot of interesting questions were asked. A nice by-product of the TFD event is that it is recorded, so several nice videos are available online. These videos explain the product and show results of several databases accelerated by SDM. You're welcome to get popcorn and watch: Product (15min) - Technology [...]

Ampool data pipeline on Plexistor SDM @ IMC Summit

posted on May 24, 2016 by Amit Golander

Today was the 1st day of In-memory Computing (IMC) summit at San Francisco. Approximately 350 Big Data fans gathered, exchanged ideas and walked by the different booths. Hopefully, they will all return tomorrow to attend our talk on the benefits of Memory and Storage convergence to in-memory computing. In-memory computing frameworks using SDM can be split to two types: Existing IMC frameworks – in which, the benefit should be seen out-of-the-box [...]

SDM shatters more world records with near-instantaneous remote mirroring

posted on May 9, 2016 by Amit Golander

A year ago Plexistor’s SDM established record-breaking local file-level access latency: millions of operations per second at only a few microseconds per op. This was — and still is — orders of magnitude faster than any other published performance results. Ever since, we have been working toward extending SDM’s performance capabilities to handle remotely mirrored/replicated writes as well. A goal that many experts considered impossible. “The difficult we do immediately. The impossible [...]

NVML 1.0, DAX and the NVM Programming Model

posted on April 12, 2016 by Amit Golander

As a veteran researcher, I’m always interested in brand new approaches for doing things. One great example is the new NVM programming model proposed by SNIA (NPM). An approach that took a big step forward this week, as version 1.0 of the associated NVM library (NVML) was released. For the few people who understood this first paragraph – congratulation on the major milestone. If you haven’t really understood it however – [...]

posted on March 31, 2016 by Amit Golander

After dreaming about "The Machine" for years, HPE completed the first milestone. Today, HPE announced that its DL360/380 servers support NVDIMM-N, or in their own words: "New HPE ProLiant Gen9 portfolio extends leadership with industry-first support for persistent memory". I wouldn't go so far as to say that they are the first to support PM or that they offer a complete solution (software anyone?), but HPE does deserve a round of applause [...]

Wasting Money is Easier than Ever

posted on March 2, 2016 by Amit Golander

Once upon a time (1985), Richard Pryor had to work hard for a full month in order to waste 30 million dollars. And he almost failed… 30 years later, with a modern infrastructure – it is barely a challenge. NoSQL middleware will easily shard to additional servers and public cloud vendors will happily rent you as many servers as you want. Unlike Richard Pryor, you’re not trying to waste money. It [...]

Last Transaction Safe NoSQL

posted on February 19, 2016 by Amit Golander

Two weeks ago we published a short white paper showing that you can use MongoDB for critical data as well. Even if you're unwilling to lose a single update, or cannot afford to wait for uploading all the data back into memory after a power failure. MongoDB when run on Plexistor SDM is both "last transaction safe" and faster than conventional solutions. As a memory refresher, these were the main results: Following several questions [...]

With Great Power comes Great Responsibility

posted on February 8, 2016 by Amit Golander

Programming on top of a SQL database is relatively easy. Why? Because the SQL database simplifies your work. Of course it supports Join operations, but more importantly it maintains the ACID properties for you. So you, as the application developer have some peace of mind. You know that once committed, your data is persistent and safe, even if there is a full data center power outage. That is why we feel confident [...]

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