Artificial Intelligence (AI) at scale raises the bar for storage infrastructure in terms of capacity and performance. It is not uncommon for an AI or machine learning (ML) environment to expect growth to dozens if not hundreds of terabytes of…
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Understanding the Problem of Unification in Most Software-Defined Storage Solutions
The promise of software-defined storage (SDS) aims to unify all of your organization’s storage assets through a single user interface. But that interface is supposed to do more than provide a single pane of glass for monitoring. It is also…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Bare Metal, Container, DataCore, Fibre Channel, Hyperconverged, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, SDS, SMB, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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Live Webinar: Designing Storage Infrastructures for AI Workloads
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads are fundamentally different from any other workload. These workloads deal in data sets measured in dozens of petabytes of capacity, and large percentages of it can go from dormant to active at…
Are All-Flash Arrays All Wrong for AI and DL Workloads?
When designing a storage infrastructure for an artificial intelligence (AI) or deep learning (DL) workload, the default assumption is that an all-flash array (AFA) or something even faster must be at the heart of the design. The problem is as…
Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, DL, Flash, Metadata, Object Storage, SwiftStack
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Does All-Flash Kill Data Management?
Most of today’s modern storage systems have a scale-out design, meaning they can expand to meet almost all of the data center’s capacity requirements. Also, since an increasing number of these systems are all-flash, they can meet most data center’s…
Can Current Storage Infrastructure Meet the AI at Scale Demand?
In our last blog we covered the challenges that AI at scale creates for storage infrastructures. To support the coming wave of AI applications, storage infrastructures need to deliver a tremendous amount of storage capacity with the ability to retain…
Complexity is Killing Secondary Storage
Most organizations only use their secondary storage infrastructure as protection storage. In some cases, this is because the secondary storage hardware only supports the backup use case. Even if the organization selects more flexible secondary storage hardware, it still primarily…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud NAS, Cohesity, Compression, Deduplication, Dev/Test, Flash, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, SMB
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Understanding the Challenges That AI at Scale Creates
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is in its infancy and the requirements it places on the storage architectures that support these workloads are not widely understood. As a result, an organization starting an AI initiative can initially get away with using an…
The How and Why of High-Performance Primary Storage as-a-service
The key to reducing primary storage costs is to better manage the data that is on primary storage. The problem remains that IT lacks the tools, and more importantly the time, to properly manage the workloads that primary storage supports.…
Is Your Storage Architecture Ready for the Coming AI Wave?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term that can apply to various computing tasks, including machine learning, deep learning, and big data analytics. Many AI projects are in a proof of concept stage, but CIOs and IT Managers need to…
