SAN JOSE, Calif., - 22 Jul 2011: Researchers from IBM (NYSE:
IBM) today demonstrated the future of large-scale storage
systems by successfully scanning 10 billion files on a single
system in just 43 minutes, shattering the previous record of one
billion files in three hours by a factor of 37. Growing at
unprecedented scales, this advance unifies data environments on
a single platform, instead of being distributed across several
systems that must be separately managed. It also dramatically
reduces and simplifies data management tasks, allowing more
information to be stored in the same technology, rather than
continuing to buy more and more storage. In 1998, IBM
Researchers unveiled a highly scalable, clustered parallel file
system called General Parallel File System (GPFS), which was
furthered tuned to make this breakthrough possible. GPFS
represents a major advance of scaling for storage performance
and capacity, while keeping management costs flat. This
innovation could help organizations cope with the explo