Nutanix puts ChatGPT in a turnkey box
Nutanix has launched a turnkey GPT-in-a-box for customers to run large language model AI workloads on its hyperconverged software platform.
Update: Nutanix does not support Nvidia's GPU Direct protocol. 5...
Storage news roundup – 3 August
Zivan Ori, founder of NVMe flash array company E8, is leaving AWS for a to-be-revealed destination. AWS bought E8 in 2019. Ori said in a LinkedIn post: “The last...
Storage news collection – 28 July 2023
Today is SysAdmin Day. The concept was created by Ted Kekatos, a system administrator, in 1999. He wanted to establish a special day to recognize the hard work and...
Market optimism grows among some storage VARs
A report tracking enterprise VARs (value-added resellers) by analyst William Blair provides insights into the current state of the enterprise IT infrastructure market and the prospects and challenges for...
Gartner storage hype cycle has selective memory
Comment: Research house Gartner has published its 2023 storage hype cycle, highlighting the evolving landscape of various technologies in the industry, and some have dropped completely out of sight.
The...
Lenovo revs up NetApp and Azure Stack systems
Lenovo has upgraded its storage array and Azure Stack lines with faster and higher-capacity products to support AI and hybrid cloud workloads - just a quarter after a previous refresh.
Kamran...
Dell thinks generative AI will generate storage sales
Dell believes generative AI could be as transformative as server virtualization and drive increased compute, network and storage sales.
Execs presented to a bunch of financial analysts at an “Ask...
Scale finds edgy replacement now that Intel’s shut down NUC
Intel has signalled the end-of-life for its low-cost NUC mini-server line of PCs, which means Scale Computing will have to find a replacement edge system hardware supplier. And it's...
Virtuozzo pitches MSPs an alternative cloud
The Virtuozzo Hybrid Cloud offers managed service providers (MSPs) a set of cloud services it claims they can sell at at lower cost than those of the three cloud...
SmartX releases IOMesh Kubernetes-native storage software
SmartX has released 1.0 of its IOMesh Kubernetes-native storage software.
Update. IOMesh is not open-source. 26 June 2023.
Beijing-based SmartX produces both hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software and IOMesh containerised storage software...