Everybody claims to be a software company these days. From the nearly decade old pronouncement by Marc Andressen that “Software Is Eating the World” to the push from Wall Street to produce recurring software revenue; the pressure is on to claim - at least - that you are a software company.

This is obviously problematic for appliance vendors. Try as they might, it does not take much…

By Frank Wessels



The recent announcement from AWS about the general availability of their new ARM-powered Graviton2 servers caused us to take another look at the performance of these ARM servers. In this blog post we describe the results which you may find surprising.

Introduction

MinIO is an Apache licensed, open source S3-compatible object storage server with a particular focus on high…

By Frank Wessels

Introduction

While MD5 hashing is no longer a good choice when considering a hash function, it is still being used in a great variety of applications. As such any performance improvements that can be made to the MD5 hashing speed are worth considering.

Due to recent improvements in SIMD processing (AVX2 and especially AVX512) we are providing a Go …

Edge computing is a hot topic and carries with it some confusion, particularly around storage. Handling data properly at the edge can ensure a scalable, cost-effective and secure infrastructure - but failing to set up the right architecture can lead to data loss, security vulnerabilities and sky-high costs related to the bandwidth needed to transfer data repeatedly to and from the public cloud. Bandwidth is a key consideration from an architecture perspective, and the reason why is clear: it…