Your occasional storage digest with Elastic, MemVerge, an amazing funding round, and more
There’s a strong focus on data querying and analysis in this week’s digest. Data querying has been improved by Elastic enhancing its search products. A US research institute is...
Dell building AIOps capability so IT infrastructure can look after itself
Dell has announced CloudIQ support for its PowerEdge servers and PowerSwitch networking gear, meaning that CloudIQ predictive analytics covers Dell’s IT infrastructure product range, providing level-3 conditional automation AIOps.
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Virtual private clouds arrive with Flow Networking at silo-busting Nutanix as part of mega...
Nutanix customers received a great raft of incremental improvements at the company’s .NEXT event, with virtual private clouds in AOS, better disaster recovery and security. Nutanix’s Cloud Platform has...
Seagate pipelining test car data to IBM/Nvidia AI smart car modelling systems
Moving 100TB per car of data a day from test cars to GPU-driven automated driver assistance (ADAS) AI modelling systems needs a multi-stage data pipeline. Seagate, IBM and Nvidia...
Dell touts VxRail and GPU combo for Nvidia’s AI Enterprise suite
Dell has announced that its VxRail hyperconverged systems are certified for Nvidia’s newly available AI Enterprise software suite, making it simpler for organisations to deploy GPU-accelerated infrastructure for processing...
Infinidat and Virtana team up for AIOps infrastructure management
Infinidat and Virtana have announced the integration of Infinidat’s Infinibox storage arrays with Virtana’s VirtualWisdom Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) platform that uses AIOps to automate and optimise IT infrastructure...
Samsung to bring in-memory processing to standard DIMMs and mobile memory
Samsung plans to expand its processing-in-memory (PIM) technology for accelerating memory-bound workloads like machine learning (ML) beyond high bandwidth memory (HBM) chips and integrate it into mainstream DIMMs and...
Enterprise array maker Infinidat gains ServiceNow integration
Infinidat’s Infinibox arrays have been integrated with ServiceNow’s ITOM Visibility so they can show up and be managed within ServiceNow’s IT estate operations.
ServiceNow provides IT systems management as-a-service and...
DevRev: Former Nutanix execs look to lure in dev startups with new Business Infrastructure-as-a-Service...
Heading up a new firm that has just emerged from stealth, Nutanix's co-founder and its former engineering VP are developing a ready-to-use SaaS platform which they say can provide...
Startup releases ‘self-defending’ SSD that protects data from ransomware attacks
Cyber-security startup Cigent Technology has built a "self-defending" Secure SSD which constantly checks the credentials of any access to data on the drive. The firm claims it can make...
Your occasional storage digest with NGD computational storage and more
The headline story in this week's storage digest is concerns NGD's computational storage drives reducing deep neural net training time by up to two thirds. That's a new use...
Nvidia BlueField goes SuperPODDING – with composability in its sights
Analysis Nvidia has updated its SuperPOD GPU server for AI by adding BlueField DPU support to accelerate and secure access to data. DDN is the first Nvidia-certified SuperPOD-BlueField storage...