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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StorageSwiss Report 64 – A Decade’s Worth of Predictions
The StorageSwiss Report is a weekly discussion about hot trends and topics going on in the storage, cloud, and data protection markets. We don’t just cut & paste press releases. We provide insight as to why or why not the…
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…
Lightboard Video: The Art of Big and Fast Data
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL) projects can all have varying types of data associated with them. Some projects consist of a relatively small number of huge files, and others have an incredibly high number of…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big data, Deep Learning, DL, IoT, Machine Learning, Memory, MemVerge, ML
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Virtual Instruments Briefing Note – Virtana Announcement
The data center, in most cases, is a mixture of legacy and modern applications that exist, both on-premises and in the cloud. To provide organizations with a competitive advantage, IT needs to use and manage these resources efficiently. IT professionals…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Migration, ML, Virtana, Virtual Instruments
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Posted in Briefing Note
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…
SlideShare: Five Reasons Modern Data Centers Need Tape
To some, tape storage may seem like an outdated technology in the era of NAS and object-based storage. But— here’s a surprise – tape today is more relevant than ever. Even the most modern data centers can benefit from its…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Cloud, Fujifilm, Hybrid, Iron Mountain, Ransomware, Spectra Logic, Tape
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How to Make HCI Work Like the Cloud
Increasingly, organizations are looking to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to simplify their on-premises architectures to make them more cloud-like. Obvious considerations for IT professionals looking to move to HCI are Cisco HyperFlex, Dell EMC, Nutanix, and VMware HCI. This writeup is…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, HCI, Hybrid, Hypervisor, LUN, Redundancy, VM, VSAN
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Posted in Briefing Note
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…
Integrating On-Premises SDN with Cloud VPC
One of the best examples of software defined networking (SDN) in action is in the cloud. When organizations use compute and storage resources from Amazon, Google and Microsoft clouds they don’t get to go into those data centers and configure…
Tagged with: Analytics, Big Switch, Cloud, Containers, HCI, Hybrid, Hypervisor, SDN
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