Solutions where the storage and compute is in the same box are destined to have a success, because they radically change the datacenter design and efficiency. They scale a linear way, because of the nature the data are stored. They’re stored and accessed locally, with a copy on another node. The Nutanix distributed file system as a core of the […]
Nutanix Distributed File System – the key of the “No SAN” solution
During VMworld 2012 in Barcelona I had the chance to see the Nutanix hardware and technology. At first, it looks like there is nothing really spectacular. 2U rack server with Fusion-IO card, 2 CPU system and lots of memory, all in one block. It’s really when you take a closer look at the distributed architecture inspired […]