AI storage

Dell EMC PowerScale adds all-NVMe, Nvidia GPUDirect options

A Dell EMC PowerScale update adds a high-end all-NVMe F900 model with Nvidia GPUDirect support for AI and analytics workloads plus a OneFS 9.2 upgrade to improve performance. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Guidelines to implement storage for AI workloads

Organizations with AI-enabled projects need an effective way to store, retrieve and share massive amounts of complex data. These tips will help meet AI data storage challenges. Continue Reading

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• John Edwards

OSDU Data Platform opens door to new apps in energy sector

A new OSDU standard aims to bring information from oil, gas, wind, solar and other sources into a single data platform to help energy companies address future demand. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Fungible computational storage eyes composable use cases

Fungible's computational storage anchors a new offering for composable infrastructure. The Fungible Data Center license allows IT teams to consume resources on demand. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Experts predict hot trends in cloud architecture, infrastructure

Top CTOs and analysts predict hyperscale architecture, hybrid cloud, IT as a service, containers and AI infrastructure will be hot trends for IT organizations in 2021. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Seagate, Western Digital outline progress on RISC-V designs

Seagate and Western Digital provide updates on their RISC-V-enabled processor designs that can drive advances in data storage and security at the network's edge. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Big data vs. artificial intelligence: How they compare

Artificial intelligence can help synthesize and analyze the large volumes of information provided by big data initiatives. The two are different, but they work well together. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

COVID-19 research generates big data, invaluable info

When supporting COVID-19 research that could uncover treatment for the pandemic, IT and storage pros want to make sure they're 'not the bottleneck' in the process. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

How AI is changing the storage consumption landscape

Deep learning, machine learning and neural networks are drastically changing how storage is consumed. Find out why this is happening and what products are helping meet this need. Continue Reading

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• Marc Staimer, Dragon Slayer Consulting

6 key AI data storage questions answered

Want to know what to watch for when planning storage for AI workloads? Find out the key considerations and challenges for dealing with the complexities of AI. Continue Reading

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• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor

Object storage vendors turn to analytics, AI, machine learning

The view of object stores as nothing more than cheap and deep storage is changing, as the technology finds its way into AI, machine learning and analytics use cases. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Containers, clouds, NVMe drive 2020 data storage innovation

Containers on bare-metal flash and souped-up processing highlight innovations in storage, aiming for seamless data movement between local and cloud arrays. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Data storage architecture poised for disruption in 2020

Experts predict edge computing, 5G and containers will fuel computational storage, new storage systems dedicated to container-based applications, and flash-based object stores. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Q&A: SwiftStack object storage zones in on AI, ML, analytics

Q&A: SwiftStack's founder and president Joe Arnold says disk-based object storage can deliver the concurrency and throughput that AI, machine learning and analytics workloads need. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Backup focus in 2020: Data at the edge and in containers

Storage and backup industry analysts say as data grows at the edge and inside containers, those areas will require more attention from backup products in 2020. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

Major storage vendors map out 2020 plans

Enhanced data management across clouds is a common theme for storage vendors heading into 2020. Vendors also plan to boost AI and predictive analytics to storage hardware. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Cloudian CEO: AI, IoT drive demand for edge storage

Describing AI as an 'infinite data consumer,' Cloudian CEO Michael Tso said there's growing demand for edge storage because there's too much data being created to efficiently move. Continue Reading

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• Johnny Yu

SwiftStack layoffs reflect change in focus to AI, analytics

Object storage vendor SwiftStack hands out layoff notices for the holidays -- cuts sales, marketing, partner team members, while shifting focus to analytics, AI, machine learning. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Slowdown, cloud, as-a-service products top 2019 storage news

Find out what storage industry news resonated with readers this year, including signs of a slowdown, cloud and consumption-based products, new storage arrays and technologies. Continue Reading

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• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor

Leading storage for AI tools address workload capacity, performance

Today's AI storage platforms provide organizations stand-alone and prepackaged products designed to address the data storage and capacity needs of their AI workloads. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

8 factors that make AI storage more efficient

AI workloads need storage optimized for performance, capacity and availability. Discover everything you'll want to consider when planning storage for AI applications. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

New API lets Azure Stack connect to Scality object storage

New Azure Blob API will enable Microsoft Azure Stack Hub and Edge hybrid and private cloud customers to use scale-out Scality Ring object storage on premises. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Why application intelligence is the linchpin of modern data centers

AI-based application intelligence tools help IT cope with growing scale and complexity by automatically detecting workloads, analyzing requirements and making recommendations. Continue Reading

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• Scott Sinclair, Practice Director

SwiftStack 7 storage upgrade targets AI, machine learning use cases

SwiftStack's latest upgrade extends its ProxyFS file system to the edge and cloud namespace to file data namespace to cater to artificial intelligence, machine learning workloads. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

AI storage platforms meet machine learning, data analysis needs

Learn which storage for AI products organizations should consider buying, based on how machine learning and AI tasks will be performed and how data is collected in their environments. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

New NVMe IBM storage for Spectrum Scale cuts install time

IBM introduces new NVMe-based flash storage system bundled with Spectrum Scale, enables Spectrum Discover to access backup date, and updates pay-as-you-grow pricing. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

6 criteria for selecting the right AI data storage

Buying the wrong storage AI platform could have serious implications. Learn the six considerations that can affect your organization's product choice and strategy. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

The secret to reliable storage provisioning for DevOps

Cloud storage and intelligent storage can help provide DevOps teams with the reliable, fast and flexible storage they require at every phase of the application delivery process. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Storage strategies for machine learning and AI workloads

Learn how organizations are using machine learning and AI to create actionable insights and what challenges they face as they develop their storage strategies. Continue Reading

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• Chris Evans

How to optimize storage for AI, machine learning and deep learning

AI and deep learning apps use large data sets and fast I/O. But storage can cause performance issues. See what features your AI and deep learning storage systems should have. Continue Reading

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• Kurt Marko, MarkoInsights

Machine learning for data analytics can solve big data storage issues

Discover how AI and machine learning -- with support from major vendors and technologies like Lambda architecture, FPGAs and containers -- address big data analytics challenges. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Machine learning for data storage optimizes data analysis

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How HPE InfoSight AI proactively spots, solves infrastructure issues

Find out how the cloud service uses AI, machine learning and predictive analytics to collect and analyze data from millions of sensors to address problems before they happen. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

NVMe for AI: A powerful pairing

NVMe storage capabilities provide the bandwidth and low latency that demanding AI and machine learning applications need to access and manage the massive amounts of data they use Continue Reading

5 predictive storage analytics features you'll want to watch for

Predictive storage analytics tools are becoming standard equipment in the enterprise. Get to know the features you'll need, how they work and the benefits they provide. Continue Reading

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• Kurt Marko, MarkoInsights

AI for storage management gets real

AI for storage is popping up everywhere, though much of what we're seeing is the automation of routine tasks. Discover what vendors are doing to use AI more creatively. Continue Reading

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• Jon Toigo

Predictive storage analytics, AI deliver smarter storage

Predictive analytics, AI and machine learning are coming together to create more intelligent data storage. Find out how your organization could benefit. Continue Reading

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• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor

SwiftStack adds a disk object-based AI reference architecture

SwiftStack's reference architecture for AI and machine learning bundles Nvidia servers for compute and disk-based Cisco or Dell EMC servers to scale object storage. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

NVMe for AI: A powerful pairing

NVMe storage capabilities provide the bandwidth and low latency that demanding AI and machine learning applications need to access and manage the massive amounts of data they use. Continue Reading

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• John Edwards

Alluxio adds support for more than 1 billion files

An update to Alluxio's data management software boosts scalability to more than 1 billion files, adds a POSIX API and enables a job service for replication and data transfer. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

HPE InfoSight to add support for partners' storage products

HPE GM of storage Milan Shetti outlines plans to add support for partners' storage products in its InfoSight predictive analytics platform and talks up its AI operations-centric strategy. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

IBM Storage Solutions draw up blueprint for blockchain storage

IBM offers up blueprints for blockchain storage, with NVMe arrays and software for scale-out. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom 5.6

With the latest version of VirtualWisdom, Virtual Instruments adds greater automation to both the discovery and resolution of storage system and network management issues. Continue Reading

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• Rodney Brown, TechTarget

Pure Storage AIRI

AIRI is a preconfigured hardware stack for data-intensive analytics. It combines Pure Storage's all-flash FlashBlade and Nvidia Tesla-based DGX supercomputers. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

2019 IT focus: Storage architecture for big data analytics

Top storage technologists and analysts predict IT organizations will focus on revamping their storage architectures to make better use of data for analytics, AI and IoT in 2019. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

See how file system structure can drag down NVMe performance

Find out what matters when it comes to file system design and how to prevent file systems from becoming bottlenecks to achieving optimal performance in NVMe-based storage systems. Continue Reading

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• George Crump

Hitachi Pentaho integration aims to subdue unstructured data

Hitachi Pentaho data integration presents Hitachi Content Platform as an object-based data lake to send cleansed data to multiple cloud targets. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Data storage industry trends revealed in top 2018 news stories

AI, NVMe over fabrics and the cloud were must-read data storage stories in 2018, as were Tintri's struggles and Dell EMC's product moves. See the news that mattered as the year closes. Continue Reading

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• Stacey Peterson, Senior Managing Editor

New IBM AI reference architecture uses Nvidia supercomputers

IBM introduces new AI reference architecture that channel partners will build with Nvidia supercomputers, the IBM Spectrum Scale parallel file system and IBM flash storage. Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Dell EMC AI reference architecture builds on Isilon all-flash

For its AI product strategy, Dell EMC is pursuing the same approach it takes with other storage products. Namely, that it’s better to have multiples of similar storage gear than to leave a gap in ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Predictive storage analytics can watch your storage for you

Don't ask if your next storage array or software will have predictive analytics. Ask what those analytics can do for your specific systems and applications. Continue Reading

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• Dave Raffo

NetApp Insight 2018: A primer on storage for AI, flash-enabled cloud

LAS VEGAS-NetApp expects about 5,000 customers and partners to gather here Monday as it lays out a roadmap for flash-enabled AI and cloud applications. NetApp Insight 2018 marks the fifth year the ... Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Hitachi storage technologies underpin AI and cloud plans

Hitachi Vantara is making several pivots from the storage vendor previously known as Hitachi Data Systems. But has it gone too far from its core storage technology? Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Hitachi analytics sharpens heterogeneous storage management

Upgraded Hitachi Vantara analytics for storage improves visual mapping of application storage and integrates dynamic-cooling IoT technologies from Vigilent. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Catch the next wave of digital IT transformation: Learning tech

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NVMe flash storage is shaking things up

The development of the nonvolatile memory express protocol is a huge step forward in allowing enterprises to maximize the benefits inherent to flash storage. NVMe puts storage closer to the CPU, reduces latency and increases the amount of parallel sessions available to storage devices. NVMe over Fabrics, meanwhile, is designed to retain the benefits of centralized storage by allowing the client host to talk directly to NVMe flash storage across a high-speed network. This is all good. But adopting NVMe flash storage does raise a number of questions. For example, what is the best approach to take when integrating NVMe flash storage in a particular IT infrastructure? And, perhaps, most imperative to the majority of enterprises, how well will the NVMe flash storage protocol and the devices that support it work with existing data center technologies?

From the get-go, the intrinsic possibilities and benefits of the all-flash data center seemed enormous and attractive. The idea that production databases would respond instantly to requests for unstructured data is extremely appealing to enterprises. Falling flash prices; the advent of unprecedented storage densities, with 16 TB flash drives commonplace and 50 TB-plus drives in the offing; and technologies such as compression and deduplication that work well in a flash environment make all-flash seem more reasonable than ever. The flash-only data center raises two significant issues that must be addressed, however. It makes equipping disaster recovery sites far more expensive and raises the question of why would you want to pay a premium price to maintain cold and stale data on expensive flash storage when a (still) much cheaper hard-disk option would suffice.

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Catch the next wave of digital IT transformation: Learning tech

IT learning technologies, such as machine learning and AI workloads, are gaining traction and could be the next wave of IT investment that drives competitive advantages. Continue Reading

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• Scott Sinclair, Practice Director

Lustre-based DDN ExaScaler arrays receive NVMe flash

High-performance computing specialist DataDirect Networks spruced up its ExaScaler SFA-based flagship with nonvolatile memory express flash, and it bought Lustre from Intel. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Vexata fires up NVMe flash storage to tackle analytics

Vexata claims about two dozen customers are using its all-flash NVMe VX storage arrays. Vendor says the product upgrade targets growing need for fast storage in cognitive computing. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Crossbar ReRAM hits 1x nanometer process milestone

Crossbar recently chalked up another milestone in its quest to get on-chip non-volatile resistive RAM (ReRAM) technology to market. The Santa Clara, California-based startup licensed its core ReRAM ... Continue Reading

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• Carol Sliwa

Ultrathin memory storage device could spell breakthroughs

According to its creators, atomristor technology promises a vast improvement on modern flash storage devices, but mainstream use may still be far off. Continue Reading

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• John Edwards

What's the future of data storage technology and the IT pro?

Several enterprise data storage trends are all about getting rid of storage as an IT silo. That will have consequences for both the industry and IT pros who work in it. Continue Reading

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• Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data

Artificial intelligence data storage planning best practices

AI storage planning is similar to the storage planning you're used to: Consider capacity, IOPS and reliability requirements for source data and the application's database. Continue Reading

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• Brien Posey

Future of data storage technology: Transformational trends for 2018

Risk-averse enterprises finally accepted the cloud in 2017, and we didn't even notice. Expect the same for these data storage technology trends in the new year. Continue Reading

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• Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data

Storage market trends of 2017: Flash, HCI and cloud gain steam

Disruption in the enterprise storage market appears unlikely to subside anytime soon. AI analytics, cloud, HCI, mergers and NVMe flash highlight key themes heading into 2018. Continue Reading

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• Garry Kranz

Data center storage architecture gets smarter with AI

Trends, such as event-triggered computing, as exemplified by Lambda Architectures, converge on data center storage to hasten data center intelligence evolution. Continue Reading

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• Mike Matchett, Small World Big Data