Tachyon Nexus, the company founded to productize the Tachyon in-memory file system developed at the AMPlab, has received $7.5 million in venture capital funding from Andreessen Horowitz, the Wall ...

Today marks the availability of Alluxio 1.0, the first major release of the memory-centric, virtual distributed file system formerly known as Tachyon. The graduate of UC Berkeley’s AMPLab is already ...

Businesses are struggling with the rapidly increasing volume, speed and variety of information being generated today – what's come to be known as big data. Companies are seeking technologies that not ...

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The sheer volume of ‘Big Data’ produced today by various sectors is beginning to overwhelm even the extremely efficient computational techniques developed to sift through all that information. But a ...

Last time we talked about new, very large data files that are the result of improvements in some important technologies, and I raised a concern that we will have to contend with some new issues when ...

In the Linux environment, the file system acts as a backbone, orchestrating the systematic storage and retrieval of data. It is a hierarchical structure that outlines how data is organized, stored, ...

The term “big data” has become all the rage in the storage, database, and analytics industries. But what exactly does it mean. At Monday’s EMC Corp. analyst briefing, which preceded EMC’s U.S.

As with Aspera, Data Expedition's goal is using new, sophisticated software technology to drastically accelerated file transfers that are currently being handled by the file transfer protocol (FTP), ...