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NAND Research works with technology companies across the enterprise IT infrastructure space, including tier-one OEMs, ISVs, and semiconductor manufacturers to help align product strategy with market needs. 

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As industry analysts, understanding market dynamics is what NAND Research does best. 

NAND Research provides competitive intelligence services to select customers in the enterprise infrastructure space. 

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The IT infrastructure market is in a state of constant churn. Our analysts are in the midst of it all, advising investors, technology companies and IT organizations alike.

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We help technology companies better understand the needs of IT organizations across industries, while helping enterprise IT organizations navigate a rapidly shifting technology landscape. 

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Latest Research

Research Notes

Research Note: HPE GreenLake Intelligence

At the recent HPE Discover event, HPE introduced GreenLake Intelligence, an agentic AI framework that attempts to address the operational complexity of modern hybrid IT environments through autonomous agent orchestration.The platform combines domain-specific large language models with real-time telemetry from HPE’s infrastructure portfolio, enabling proactive, cross-domain IT operations management.

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Research Note: HPE’s Updated AI Factory

At its recent Discover event, HPE announced an expansion of its NVIDIA-based AI Computing portfolio with three distinct AI factory configurations targeting enterprise, service provider, and sovereign deployment scenarios.The offerings center on the upgraded HPE Private Cloud AI platform, which integrates NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs with HPE ProLiant Gen12 servers, custom storage solutions, and orchestration software.

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Research Note: Pure Storage’s New Enterprise Data Cloud

At its recent Pure //Accelerate event, Pure Storage introduced its new Enterprise Data Cloud (EDC) architecture, positioning the concept as a unified data management platform that consolidates storage operations across hybrid environments.

The EDC centers on Pure Fusion, the company’s storage orchestration layer, with new automation capabilities, including workload presets, workflow orchestration, and enhanced security integrations.

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Research Reports

Research Brief: WEKA NeuralMesh, a Micro-Services-based AI Data Architecture

WEKA recently announced NeuralMesh, its software-defined, microservices-based storage platform engineered for high-performance, distributed AI workloads. NeuralMesh introduces a dynamic mesh architecture that departs from traditional monolithic or appliance-bound storage systems.

It addresses the requirements of emerging AI applications, including agentic AI, large-scale inference, and token warehouse infrastructure, by delivering consistent microsecond-level latency, fault isolation, and scale-out performance across hybrid environments.

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Research Report: Understanding VMware Alternatives

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware has left a lasting impact on the enterprise IT landscape. Promising simplification, Broadcom’s licensing and bundling changes have instead created confusion, increased costs, and led to widespread dissatisfaction among VMware customers. Many of these customers are actively exploring alternatives, driven by frustration and the need to future-proof their IT environments. This Research Report takes a look at how to best approach looking for a VMware alternative.

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Research Report: Solving AI Data Pipeline Inefficiencies, the VAST Data Way

While AI is foundational to the next wave of digital transformation, traditional data and storage infrastructure -even many parallel file systems- isn’t prepared for the demands required to support today’s AI lifecycle, which places unprecedented demands on storage and data infrastructure.

Developing an effective data infrastructure for AI requires a holistic approach, considering data, database, processing, and storage as a unified entity. This is how VAST Data approaches the challenge.

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Research Brief: Oracle Exadata on Exascale Infrastructure

Oracle announced the general availability of the Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure, offering extreme performance, reliability, availability, and security for Oracle Database workloads. This new infrastructure is now available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), catering to any workload size for all Oracle Database customers.

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Research Report: Impact of Storage Architecture on the AI Lifecycle

Traditional storage solutions, whether on-premises or in the cloud, often fail to meet the varying needs of each phase of the AI lifecycle. These legacy approaches are particularly ill-suited for the demands of distributed training, where keeping an expensive AI training cluster idle has a real economic impact on the enterprise.

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Blog

Cisco Live
Michael McDowell

Cisco Live Day 1 Recap

San Diego- the sun’s shining, the breeze is cool, and Cisco Live! 2025 just kicked off, bringing all sorts of cool vibes and as expected, a boatload of announcements. But here’s the real talk: Cisco has come to play with their AI powered networking gear.

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