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IBM Unveils Software Defined Storage Technology for Era of Big Data

• deleted 12y ago
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• wmf 12y ago
  Elastic Storage is the product formerly known as GPFS. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/technicalcomputing/platformcomputing/products/gpfs/ http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/technicalcomputing/platformcom...
  • downer73 12y ago
    ...and GPFS stands for "General Parallel File System."
• frozenport 12y ago
  Has anybody felt that IBM is absurdly expensive? Why should I pay tons of money to use a proprietary filesystem type?
• frik 12y ago
  So IBM sells UIMA with Lucene on top of GPFS and calls it Software Defined Storage. * UIMA (Unstructured Information Management Architecture): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Information_Management_Architecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unstructured_Information_Manage... * Lucene: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucene http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucene * GPFS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPFS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPFS Edit: GPFS instead of Hadoop
  • jsmthrowaway 12y ago
    Nope, that's not what this product is at all. It's GPFS. You could bang all three of those together fifty ways and not reinvent a distributed filesystem, so I have no idea what you're talking about. (Seriously? Lucene?) Speaking as (I'm sure) one of the few people in this thread who will have used GPFS: GPFS is actually quite good. You'd be surprised how good it is. It has its downfalls, but it is extraordinarily useful, performs well, and just about hits the holy grail of distributed POSIX. It's also absurdly expensive, but: IBM.
• yskchu 12y ago
  Me, I prefer Lustre over GPFS; Lustre is open source as well, and used by 70% of Top100 Here's a related presso from KIT: https://www.scc.kit.edu/scc/docs/Lustre/pfs_scc-sem_20111005.pdf https://www.scc.kit.edu/scc/docs/Lustre/pfs_scc-sem_20111005...