Nvidia’s GPUDirect Storage vanquishes AI bounce buffers
The datasets used in big data analytics and AI model training can be hundreds of terabytes, involving millions of files and file accesses. Conventional X86 processors are poorly suited...
IBM details storage portfolio for AI infrastructure
IBM has launched the Elastic Storage System (ESS) 5000 and updated Cloud Object Storage (COS) and Spectrum Discover as part of a new AI storage portfolio.
The company laid...
Your occasional storage digest including Arcserve, Excelero and WekaIO
There's a lot of teamwork going on in data storage land as suppliers piggyback on each other's strengths. We see it with Arcserve and Sophos, WekaIO and Valohai, and...
Your occasional storage digest featuring Nvidia, InfiniteIO, Memverge, Nutanix and Sony’s PS5 SSD
It’s all about more and more speed and faster disaster recovery in this week’s roundup. Read on,
Nvidia DGX A100 GPU server
Nvidia has launched its third generation DGX GPU server,...
Iguazio emits storage-integrated parallelised, real-time AI/machine learning workflows
Workflow-integrated storage supplier Iguazio has received $24m in C-round funding and announced its Data Science Platform. This is deeply integrated into AI and machine learning processes, and accelerates them...
The Ghost in the self-driving storage machine (OK, it’s a car)
Interview: Blocks & Files aims to get a sense of the market for data storage in autonomous and near-autonomous vehicles (AVs). Seagate and Renovo have suggested an AV could...
Virtana fleshes out AIOps story with VirtualWisdom 6.3
Virtana has extended its IT infrastructure monitoring software with global storage capacity management, wider system support and best practice sharing.
VirtualWisdom 6.3 introduces Capacity Auditor which provides a storage array...
Virtual Instruments changes name to Virtana
Virtual Instruments has changed its moniker to Virtana and is rebranding the cloud cost control application gained through the acquisition of this Metricly in August this year as 'CloudWisdom'.
Virtana...
What’s up with computational storage
Computational storage is an emerging trend that sees some
data processing carried out at the storage layer, rather than moving the data
into a computer’s main memory for processing by the...
Dell EMC and Nvidia tout turnkey AI systems through US resellers
Five US channel partners can build ready-to-run AI systems using Dell EMC and Nvidia gear.
The reference architecture (RA) specifies A Dell EMC/Nvidia box with an Isilon F800 all-flash filer...
Pure Storage takes its machine-learning platform hyperscale
Pure Storage has updated its AIRI platform for accelerating artificial intelligence workloads with a hyperscale configuration that includes Nvidia's DGX-1 and DGX-2 GPU boxes and Mellanox networking.
The firm today...
IBM thinks analog chips to accelerate machine learning
IBM says machine learning could be accelerated by up to a thousand times by using analog chips based on Phase-Change Memory.
Phase-Change Memory is based on a chalcogenide glass material...