Ahh, long weekend. Refreshed? Great, now purge yourself with all the storage you missed

DDN is chief among this week's round-up of tasty storage nuggets: it has jumped on the GPU bandwagon and fed Nvidia's DGX-1 souped-up server, claiming it's the fastest data source for said super box. DDN has said its EXAscaler DGX system, based on its ES14KX all-flash array, delivers 33GB/sec throughput to Nvidia's DGX-1 GPU …

[Alister]

Refreshed? Great, now purge yourself

I'm not sure you really wanted to say purge? Purge suggests an enforced emptying...

Gorge yourself is probably more what you meant...

[Anonymous Coward]

World Backup Day? Puurleeze.

When are we going to stop hearing all the crap about better Backup (denser tapes, clever clouds, virtual objects, ooooh DNA back up n storage? Yawn.

How about the vendors putting there 'whotnots' on the block and actually talking about RECOVERY for a change. RESTORE me from Cloud/Object/30TB tapes etc.

How long to rebuild a 20TB critcal system, along with all data, from <<INSERT TOSS TECH>>?

Exactly.

As they say, "Back up is boring, Restore is very exciting." Career-threatening, even.

But all we hear is faster back ups...

[BlastRadius]

Funny you should mention that

Oh how the sausage is made. Nobody asks about restore performace with real production (how many clients?) environments. That is where the benchmarks *really* should be measuring. Getting the bits OUT of the can is the important part.