Parquet
Parquet - A columnar data table format optimized for use with big data processing frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Spark, and others, and designed to allow complex data...
MCP
MCP - Model Context Protocol, recently (March 2025) announced by Anthropic, is a standard model for how applications and services can be discovered and interacted with in a universal...
SCADA
SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition - a control system architecture comprising computers, networked data communications and graphical user interfaces for high-level supervision of machines and processes. In...
Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka - open source distributed event streaming software built for large-scale, real-time data feeds used in processing, messaging, and analytics. Data in Kafka is organized into topics. These are...
Apache Iceberg
Apache Iceberg - an open source table format for large-scale datasets in data lakes, sitting above storage systems like Parquet, ORC, and Avro, and cloud object stores such as...
Apache Spark
Apache Spark - an open-source, distributed computing framework intended for fast, large-scale data processing and analytics. It’s used for big data workloads involving batch processing, real-time streaming, machine learning,...
SOCAMM
SOCAMM - Small Outline Compression Attached Memory Module. SOCAMMs provide over 2.5 times higher bandwidth at the same capacity when compared to RDIMMs, according to Micron. The SOCAMM form...
Tokens
Tokens - In the context of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in natural language processing (NLP) tokens are an intermediate representation of words, images, audio and video between the origini=al...
Storage leaders weigh in on their industry for International Women’s Day
"I heard a comment the other day that tech is an industry founded by men making things for men" – Fidelma Russo, CTO at HPE.
Today, on International Women's Day,...
BPM
BPM - Bit-Patterned Media - a type of magnetic storage technology designed to increase the areal density of data storage beyond what is achievable with conventional continuous granular media...
HDMR
HDMR - Heated Dot Magnetic Recording is based on ultra small, non-interacting, and thermally stable (at room temperature) magnetic dots. They are heated by laser, as with HAMR, to...
HBF
HBF - High Bandwidth Flash. This is the stacking of NAND dies one above the other with them all above a logic layer. The whole stack connecs to a...