Research Note: SAP HANA Cloud Vector Engine
SAP recently introduced its new SAP HANA Cloud Vector Engine, designed to bridge the gap between LLMs’ advanced capabilities and enterprise-specific business needs.
Research Note: Intel Gaudi 3
Intel announced its long-anticipated new Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerator at its Intel Vision event. The new accelerator offers significant improvements over the previous generation Gaudi 3 processor and promises to challenge Nvidia’s current generation accelerators in training and inference for LLMs and multimodal models.
Quick Take: Google Axion Arm-based Processor
At its Google Cloud Next event, Google announced its new in-house designed Axion processor, a series of custom Arm-based CPUs explicitly designed for data center applications. These processors are part of Google’s continued investment in custom silicon to enhance its cloud computing services’ performance and energy efficiency.
Research Note; Arm Ethos U-65 microNPU
Arm introduced its new Ethos-U65 microNPU (Neural Processing Unit). This state-of-the-art AI accelerator facilitates machine learning (ML) inference in many embedded systems and high-performance devices.
Research Note: AMD Versal Edge Series Gen 2
AMD expands its Versal portfolio with the introduction of its Versal AI Edge Series Gen 2 and Versal Prime Series Gen 2 adaptive SoCs. These next-generation solutions cater to the increasing demands for AI-driven and classic embedded systems, providing a balanced mix of performance, power efficiency, functional safety, and security within a single chip.
Quick Take: Wasabi AiR Intelligent Media Storage
Wasabi AiR integrates artificial intelligence to transform how video content is stored, accessed, and utilized. The new offering combines the cost-effectiveness and high performance of Wasabi’s object storage with sophisticated AI capabilities, including automatic metadata tagging and multilingual searchable speech-to-text transcription.
Subscription Growth Fuels Pure Storage Earnings Beat
In its fiscal Q4 2024 earnings release, Pure Storage exceeded revenue and operating profit guidance, demonstrating strong financial performance and market demand for its products and services. The most interesting aspect of Pure’s earnings is the growth of its subscription-based business, now accounting for more than 40% of its total revenue.
Quick Take: Dell Technologies New 5G Solutions
Dell Technologies introduced several new offerings designed to simplify the deployment of advanced 5G solutions by communication service providers.
The new offerings center around the Dell Telecom Infrastructure Automation Suite, which automates the management and orchestration of a CSP’s network infrastructure. The new suite also sits at the center of Dell’s Telecom Infrastructure Blocks for Red Hat update.
Quick Take: Hammerspace Hyperscale NAS For AI & HPC
Hammerspace unveiled its new high-performance NAS architecture, Hyperscale NAS, to cater to the growing demands of enterprise AI, machine learning, deep learning initiatives, and the increasing use of GPU computing both on-premises and in the cloud.
Quick Take: Lacework Expands Enterprise Capabilities
Cloud security company Lacework announced new platform capabilities to enhance efficiency for security stakeholders.
The enhancements include the introduction of Lacework Explorer, a combination of a security graph and resource explorer for better asset visibility and relationship analysis. New dashboards have been introduced to provide in-depth insights into the performance of security programs against set goals.