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In Conversation: Extending HCI to the Edge

Steve McDowell June 29, 2024

I recently sat with Nutanix’s Greg White, Senior Director of Product Marketing, to understand the challenges of deploying resources, including AI, to the edge. Greg also talked in-depth about how hyper-converged architectures (HCI) can be leveraged to address many of these challenges.

HPE Networking- Not quite ready to take over the world and that’s okay.

Michael McDowell June 25, 2024

An AI wave is soon to hit enterprise shores and is bringing a need to totally rethink enterprise network design, support models, and functional capabilities. HPE is spending billions to develop offerings for IoT, distributed computing, and artificial intelligence (AI).The years-long build is leading to HPE’s realization that a more advanced network offering is critical to the successful deployment of its AI portfolio, hence the pending Juniper acquisition.

HPE Updates Partner Programs for AI

Steve McDowell June 22, 2024

At HPE Discover 2024, HPE announced an ambitious new AI enablement program in collaboration with NVIDIA to boost profitability and deliver new revenue streams for partners. This program includes enhanced competencies and resources across AI, compute, storage, networking, hybrid cloud, sustainability, and HPE GreenLake offerings.

Quick Take: Mirantis and Portworx Collaboration

Steve McDowell June 10, 2024

Pure Storage’s Portworx and Mirantis announced a new collaboration to address the complexities of data management in Kubernetes environments, providing enterprises with a robust solution that enhances their containerization strategies.

Quick Take: Hammerspace Integrates Gryf with SourceCode/GigaIO Partnership

Steve McDowell June 10, 2024

Hammerspace announced a significant addition to its Global Data Platform, enabling it to process, store, and manage data in edge compute environments. This advancement is achieved through the integration with Gryf, a portable AI supercomputer developed by SourceCode and GigaIO. This combined solution brings increased shared AI processing power to edge locations, even those with limited or no network infrastructure.

What is Intent-Based Networking?

Steve McDowell June 4, 2024

Intent-Based Networking (IBN) is an advanced approach to network management and operation that uses high-level business goals and policies to automate and manage the network. Unlike traditional network management methods that require manual configurations and constant monitoring, IBN focuses on the desired outcomes or “intent” and uses AI, machine learning, and automation to achieve those outcomes.