Quick Take: Tanium’s Autonomous Endpoint Management (AEM)
Tanium, a leader in converged endpoint management, is bringing AEM into the mainstream, highlighting the technology as the future direction of its XEM platform at its recent Converge event.
Let’s look at AEM and how it might impact the cybersecurity market.
Observability’s Now Strategic for IT
Observability allows IT organizations to monitor and understand the internal states of systems by examining their outputs. Observability has transcended its origins in monitoring, evolving into a sophisticated discipline that leverages AI to provide deep insights and predictive capabilities; it’s become a strategic need for enterprise IT.
Quick Take: Microsoft & Vodafone’s Strategic Engagement
Vodafone and Microsoft announced a significant 10-year strategic partnership aimed at driving digital transformation for businesses and consumers across Europe and Africa, leveraging their combined strengths in technology and connectivity.
The collaboration will focus on enhancing Vodafone’s customer experience through Microsoft’s AI, expanding Vodafone’s managed IoT connectivity platform, developing new digital and financial services for SMEs, and revamping Vodafone’s global data center strategy.
After A Year: Checking in on IBM Ceph
It’s been about a year since IBM brought Red Hat’s OpenShift Data into the IBM Storage group. In that time, IBM has focused on addressing data challenges in AI scaling and the storage requirements to support the rapidly growing data, along with various formats and locations, within the modern hybrid-cloud enterprise.
Quick Take: HPE to Acquire Juniper Networks
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced its definitive agreement to acquire Juniper Networks, Inc., a leader in AI-native networks, for approximately $14 billion in an all-cash transaction. This is a premium of approximately 32% over Juniper’s closing stock price on the day the deal was announced.
Quick Take: Intel’s Big Automotive Play
At the CES show in Las Vegas, Intel outlined a bold strategy to expand its AI capabilities into the automotive sector. This includes an agreement to acquire Silicon Mobility, a company specializing in system-on-chips (SoCs) for EV energy management, marking a significant step in Intel’s pursuit of automotive market growth.
Quick Take: Databricks Acquires Einblick
Databricks recently acquired the team behind Einblick, a natural language data science notebook. The acquisition, for an undisclosed amount, is the latest in a series of strategic purchases by Databricks.
Quick Take: SentinelOne Acquires PingSafe, Expands Unified Security Offerings
SentinelOne, a leader in AI-driven security, announced its pending acquisition of PingSafe, an emergent player in the Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) space, for an undisclosed amount.
The acquisition will allow SentinelOne to extend its cloud workload and data security offerings with PingSafe’s CNAPP technology to offer an integrated platform for comprehensive coverage and automation across cloud environments.
Halcyon’s Latest Funding Shows Robust Cybersecurity Growth
Halcyon, an emerging player in the cybersecurity anti-ransomware sector, recently marked a significant milestone in its growth trajectory, securing an additional $40 million in a Series B funding round. This recent infusion of capital brings the company’s total funding to an impressive $84 million, following a $44 million Series A round last April.
Quick Take: Chronosphere Acquires Calyptia
Chronosphere, a cloud-native environment observability provider, recently announced the acquisition of Calyptia, a specialist in observability pipelines. This marks a significant expansion in Chronosphere’s capabilities.
Equinix Launches Fully Managed NVIDIA DGX AI
Equinix launched a fully managed private cloud service to facilitate enterprises’ acquisition and management of NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputing infrastructure. This service is aimed at helping businesses build and run custom generative AI models.
The Unexpected Impact of VMware Cost Reductions
While VMware’s new price reductions may seem positive on the surface, there are significant questions as to whether IT buyers are actually saving money, especially as clarity emerges on the details of VMware’s new bundling scheme and the operational limits it’s now placing on products like vSAN.
Quick Take: Intel’s New Emerald Rapids Processor
Intel unveiled its new Emerald Rapids processors, part of its 5th-Gen Xeon Scalable lineup. The new processors arrive with multiple features designed to enhance performance across workloads, including AI and HPC.
IBM Simplifies SW Development for Quantum Computing with New Tools
As the quantum computing landscape rapidly advances, IBM stands at the vanguard with innovative solutions designed to make quantum computing more practical and accessible. This is particularly evident in its innovations in developing quantum applications.
VMware Customers Cautious after Recent Broadcom Actions
Broadcom is moving quickly in undertaking several critical initiatives with VMware that, while likely beneficial to Broadcom shareholders over the long term, are causing uncertainty among many VMware customers.
VAST Data More Than Doubles Valuation to $9.1B in Latest Funding Round
VAST Data recently announced a $118 million in a Series E funding round, elevating its valuation to $9.1 billion post-money. The valuation is more than double that of VAST’s previous funding round.
SentinelOne Earnings Validates Strategy
SentinelOne released earnings for its most recent quarter that beat consensus estimates for the top and bottom line for the third consecutive quarter, showing a dramatic year-over-year increase in revenue, annual recurring revenue (ARR), and growth in gross margin.
IBM And Meta Launch an AI Alliance for Safe AI
Created by IBM and Meta, the AI Alliance is a testament to the belief that open and transparent innovation is crucial for harnessing AI advancements in a way that prioritizes safety, diversity, and widespread economic opportunity.
IBM Introduces New Quantum Computing Processors & Platforms
IBM recently announced significant advancements in both quantum processors and platforms for quantum computing at its Quantum Summit 2023.
In doing so, IBM highlighted several significant advancements in quantum computing, showcasing the company’s commitment to pushing the boundaries of this revolutionary technology.
Elastic Shows Robust Growth on the Back of GenAI & Cloud Expansion
Elastic demonstrated an impressive performance in its latest earnings release, handily beating consensus estimates for revenue and EPS, and even surprised Wall Street with its forecast. The earnings showed Elastic making significant strides across every segment of its business.
SentinelOne Expands Cybersecurity Capabilities, Positions for Growth
SentinelOne has consistently redefined its approach to encompass a comprehensive suite of cybersecurity services, ranging from endpoint to cloud to identity security, broadening its scope and addressing the multifaceted nature of cyber threats today.
WEKA Lights Up the Vegas Sphere for U2
Supplying the data infrastructure for something like U2’s show at the Sphere in Las Vegas is significant challenge.
This piece looks at how WEKA stepped up to meet the demanding challenges of one of the biggest bands in the world.
IBM Introduces watsonx.governance for AI Governance
IBM’s focus on enterprise-readiness continues with its announcement of watsonx.governance, designed to assist business in managing and governing AI models, will be generally available in early December.
Dell Partners with Hugging Face & Meta for Enterprise AI
Dell and Hugging Face are working together to aid enterprise adoption of AI by providing a platform where businesses can easily select, deploy, and fine-tune AI models for their specific use cases using Dell’s infrastructure.
Lacework’s new SCA & SAST Cyber-Security Capabilities
Cloud security provider Lacework recently announced the extension of its platform to include code security, enhancing its coverage of the full application lifecycle. The new features provide Lacework customers with comprehensive visibility throughout the application development process, helping to identify and address security issues before deployment.
Dynatrace’s Kubernetes Experience for Platform Engineering
Dynatrace recently announced its new Kubernetes Experience for Platform Engineering. Dynatrace built the new solution in response to the growing need for organizations to manage and monitor their Kubernetes-based containerized environments more efficiently.
IBM Launches $500M AI Venture Fund
IBM this week unveiled a $500 million venture fund to invest in AI companies, ranging from early-stage startups to high-growth enterprises.
IBM Introduces its Storage Scale System 6000
IBM recently introduced its Storage Scale System 6000. IBM’s cloud-scale global software-defined data platform addresses the escalating demands of data-intensive workloads and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.
What Q3 Earnings Tell Us about Public Cloud
The recent earnings reports from the top three public cloud providers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, and Google Cloud, shows that the overall public cloud market remains robust and is starting to show signs of increased growth after several quarters of shrinking growth.
Inside HashiCorp’s Multiple Announcements at HashiConf
HashiCorp recently wrapped up its annual HashiConf event in San Francisco, where it talked to developers and investors alike. HashiCorp tells a good story, one that you should know. Let’s look at some of its recent innovations.
Dell Introduces APEX Cloud Platform for OpenShift
Dell continues its push into multi-cloud with announcement of its Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift.
Lenovo Relentlessly Focused on AI at Tech World 2023
Lenovo’s Global Tech World is underway in Austin this week where the company shows off the latest innovations from its wide range of product teams. Despite its expansive portfolio, the clear focus for Lenovo is on capturing mindshare around enterprise AI while also riding the wave propelling most of the growth in the IT industry.
IBM Acquires Manta, Bolsters Watson.x
IBM announced the acquisition of Manta Software for an undisclosed amount. Manta is a leading data lineage platform that allows enterprises to understand their data better.
NetApp Releases 2023 Data Complexity Report
NetApp released its 2023 Data Complexity Report results showing the impact of cloud migration, cybersecurity, and even sustainability on enterprise data infrastructure.
Palo Alto Networks Prisma Cloud Gains Code-to-Cloud Intelligence
Palo Alto Networks has unveiled the latest iteration of its leading Prisma Cloud offering, which it calls “Darwin.” The new Prisma Cloud release introduces tools and features that secure the entire application lifecycle, from the code’s inception to its deployment and runtime in the cloud.
VAST Data to Provide Data Infrastructure for Lambda
Lambda and VAST Data have engaged in a new strategic partnership that brings the VAST Data Platform to Lambda.
NetApp And Equinix Metal Introduce BM Storage-as-a-Service
NetApp and Equinix Metal this week introduced a new Bare-Metal-as-a-Service (BMaaS) storage solution, integrating NetApp Storage with Equinix Metal to operate as an as-a-service model through NetApp Keystone.
Arm introduces Arm Total Design to Further Simplify SoC Development
Arm this week introduced its Arm Total Design program for Neoverse CSS, an ecosystem approach to facilitate developing and delivering custom system-on-chip (SoC) solutions based on Arm’s Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS).
Confluent Introduces Partner-Driven Real-Time AI Initiative + New AI Tools
Confluent, a leader in data streaming and steward of the open-source Apache Kafka system, recently announced a new initiative called “Data Streaming for AI” to aid organizations in developing real-time AI applications. It also introduced new AI-enabled tools.
ServiceNow Introduces Now Assist, Bringing GenAI to its Now Platform
ServiceNow unveiled its new “Now Assist” family of solutions earlier this month as part of a major expansion of its powerful Now Platform, introducing new generative AI capabilities for IT Service Management, Customer Service Management, HR Service Delivery, and creators.
Inside Hitachi Vantara’s new Virtual Storage Platform One
Hitachi Vantara’s new Virtual Storage Platform One is designed to address the challenges faced by IT leaders who need to scale data and modernize applications across complex, distributed hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures.
OpenText Releases Aviator AI Tools for Business & Technologists
OpenText unveiled a broad expansion of its enterprise-class Aviator platform with new AI capabilities spanning business and technology needs. Aviator is OpenText’s AI platform, designed to enable organizations to leverage AI for various applications without moving their data.
Google Brings Vertex AI Search to Healthcare
Google Cloud introduced enhancements to its Vertex AI Search tailored for healthcare and life sciences organizations. The solution enables the application of medical-tuned generative AI search on diverse data sources, including clinical data like FHIR data and clinical notes.
SailPoint Introduces Atlas Identity Management Platform
SailPoint Technologies this week unveiled its new SailPoint Atlas platform, its new multi-tenant SaaS platform that serves as the foundation for the SailPoint Identity Security Cloud, offering a common set of services that simplify and accelerate identity security operations for modern enterprises.
Cloudian, AMD & Micron Boost Performance of Object Storage
Cloudian, in partnership with AMD and Micron, recently demonstrated a significant breakthrough in object storage performance and energy efficiency, delivering extreme performance levels from Cloudian’s software-defined object storage solution.
Inside Pure Storage’s New Evergreen Offerings
Pure announced that it would pay back its customers for the power and rack costs for its Evergreen//One Storage-as-a-Service.
The company also introduced new guarantees for its overall storage portfolio that make its storage easier to procure while increasing its longevity. The new options include flexible financing, enhanced resilience, and AI-powered service capabilities.
Inside Microsoft’s New Cloud-Based Data & AI Solutions for Healthcare
Microsoft announced its first industry-specific application of its Fabric analytics platform, introducing new healthcare-focused AI models, and releasing new AI-driven tools to simplify the clinician experience.
NVIDIA, Wind River & NTT DOCOMO Deliver First GPU-Accelerated 5G vRAN Solution
NVIDIA, along with Japanese telecom provider NTT DOCOMO, recently announced a pioneering GPU-accelerated commercial Open RAN 5G built on NVIDIA, Fujitsu, and Wind River technology. This marks the world’s first deployment of a GPU-accelerated commercial 5G network by a telecom provider.
In Conversation: Infinidat CMO Eric Herzog on Strengthening Enterprise Storage
Enterprise storage is changing as IT organizations demand more flexible, more affordable, easier to use, cyber-resilient, and higher-performance storage solutions.
Infinidat CMO Eric Herzog and NAND Research Principal Analyst Steve McDowell delve into the evolving needs of enterprise storage, and how Infinidat’s recent innovations expand the options available to enterprise IT.
Dell Launces APEX Block Storage for Azure
This week, Dell has launched its new APEX Block Storage for Azure, just days after it released its APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure.
Let’s look at what Dell is delivering.
Dell’s Validated Design for Generative AI + New Tools & Services
Dell Technologies announced a significant expansion of its Generative AI Solutions portfolio to empower businesses embarking on their GenAI journeys. This expansion delivers advanced infrastructure, professional services, and a collaborative data solution to help organizations derive intelligence from their data securely and efficiently.
Dell Launches APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure
Today Dell Technologies launched its APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure. This makes Dell the first partner in Microsoft’s Premier Solutions for Azure Stack HCI category, the latest in a long history of joint innovation between the two companies.
Let’s look at the new Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Azure.
IBM Releases Granite Foundation Models for Enterprise AI
IBM takes a big step towards addressing enterprise requirements for generative AI with its new Granite Foundation Models. Let’s look at what IBM announced.
VAST Data Powers the Infrastructure Behind CoreWeave’s AI Cloud
CoreWeave, a leading specialty cloud provider for AI systems, announced that VAST Data has been selected to provide the data infrastructure underpinning CoreWeave’s offerings.
Dell Launches APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure
Dell Technologies today launched its APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure. This makes Dell the first partner in Microsoft’s Premier Solutions for Azure Stack HCI category, the latest in a long history of joint innovation between the two companies.
Intel Details New Processors & Looks to the Future @ Intel Innovation
Intel made a sweeping set of announcements at its recent Intel Innovation event, including detailing next generation Xeon processors.
Lenovo Introduces New AMD-based ThinkEdge + Extends TruScale to the Edge
Lenovo last week announced a new ThinkEdge platform, based on Advanced Micro Device’s new edge-targeted AMD EPYC 8004-series processor, and is extending its TruScale offering to the edge.
Quick Take: Amazon Invests $4B in AI Model Developer Anthropic
Amazon has invested $4 billion in model developer Anthropic, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) becoming its primary cloud provider.
Komprise’s Unveils Storage Insights Tool to Help Tame Unstructured Data Sprawl
Komprise recently announced a new data management capability, Storage Insights, delivered as part of the latest update to its leading Intelligent Data Management platform.
Qualcomm Introduces 10G Broadband and Wi-Fi 7 Fiber Gateway
This week Qualcomm introduced its new 10G Fiber Gateway Platform, the industry’s first fully integrated 5G advanced-ready fixed wireless access (FWA) and Wi-Fi 7 offering.
Orca Security Expands Relationship with Google Cloud + Adds Generative AI Features
It’s been a busy year for Orca Security. Back in June, the company announced an expanded relationship with Google Cloud. Earlier this month, Orca released a new generative AI-based tool for asset discovery.
Infinidat Adds All-Flash Capabilities in InfiniBox SSA & Introduces Higher-Capacity Model
Infinidat announced an increase in the capacity of it InfiniBox SSA II array and introduced new scalability options for its entry-level models. It also unveiled a unique software capability delivers the power of an all-flash array from within InfiniBox for workloads that need that extra bit of performance.
HPE Announces Top-Down Reorganization
In a move that includes multiple executive departures and reassignments, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is restructuring to accelerate its hybrid cloud sales offensive. CEO Antonio Neri announced the reorganization details in a public blog released today.
Elastic Introduces Generative AI for Observability & GA’s Universal Profiling
Elastic, the company behind the industry-leading Elasticsearch, today unveiled two significant updates: Elastic AI Assistant for Observability and the general availability of its Universal Profiling features.
Amazon Unveils New Cloud Storage Offerings at AWS Storage Day
At Amazon’s recent AWS Storage Day, Amazon announced updated to FSx for Lustre, Logical air-gap for AWS Backup, and expanded DataSync integrations.
Oracle Brings Exadata to Microsoft Azure
Oracle and Microsoft last week jointly announced that Oracle’s Exadata platform is coming to Azure cloud.
Cisco and Nutanix Embark on Strategic Relationship
Cisco and Nutanix are collaborating to offer an integrated hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) product line that combines Cisco’s SaaS-managed compute and networking solutions with Nutanix’s software-defined storage platform.
Google Cloud Introduces New Vertex AI Capabilities
Google introduced its Vertex AI machine learning (ML) platform in 2021 to allow its customers to manage the entire ML lifecycle, from model development to deployment. Vertex AI combines data engineering, data science, and ML engineering workflows, enabling teams to collaborate using a common toolset and scale your application. Last week at Google’s Google Cloud […]
Qualcomm’s New Auto Platform, Partnership with AWS & Expanded Reach into Auto OEMs
Qualcomm made a number of announcements at this week’s IAA Mobility Event in Munich. Let’s look at what the company said. News: AWS Cloud Innovation Partnership Qualcomm and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a strategic partnership to advance innovation in the automotive industry. Recognizing the growing significance of software-defined features, the explosion of data analytics, […]
Marvell Sees Momentum in Cloud, AI, and Automotive
Last week, Marvell released its earnings for the second quarter of its fiscal 2024, demonstrating robust performance with $1.34 billion in top-line revenue. While that number was down year-over-year, it surpassed the midpoint of the company’s guidance. Insight: Growth in Cloud & AI Marvell’s data center business was a bright spot. Revenue from that business […]
Arm Enables Faster Silicon Development with Neoverse CSS N2
At this week’s Hot Chips 2023 event, Arm unveiled its Arm Neoverse Compute Subsystems (CSS) offering, which promises to simplify and accelerate the adoption of Arm Neoverse technology into new solutions. It’s a powerful enabler that will reduce the friction of integrating Arm IP into new designs and accelerate the time-to-market for Arm’s partners. News: […]
Pure Storage Demonstrates the Sustainability of Flash in New ESG Report
Pure Storage takes ESG seriously, making it not just a pillar of its messaging but a core part of the company’s values. Earlier this month Pure Storage released its annual ESG Report, detailing its progress on the environmental, social, and governance issues that most impact the company, its customers and its stakeholders. Insight: Pure’s Flash […]
Nutanix Introduces new Generative AI-in-a-Box
Earlier this month, Nutanix announced its new GPT-in-a-Box™ solution, which promises to simplify the implementation of Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) capabilities. Nutanix’s solution aims to help organizations harness the power of AI while maintaining robust control over their data and applications. New: Nutanix GPT-in-a-Box Nutanix’s new GPT-in-a-Box brings together the elements necessary to deploy a […]
Sysdig Sees Continued Momentum In Cybersecurity
Context While Sysdig emerged in the observability space over a decade ago, the company entered the security realm in 2017, bringing container security features into its observability tools. Its offering correlates logs with the security information it collects on container workloads to identify threats. The company has grown since adding a cloud security posture management […]
Pure Storage Brings Cloud Block Store To Microsoft’s Azure VMware Solution
Pure Storage is bringing its Cloud Block Store (CBS) to Microsoft AVS, allowing users to provision storage as needed to fully use an Azure AVS deployment without having to scale out compute resources.
Qualcomm Grows Automotive Business With Cadillac Win
This month, the momentum continues as Cadillac announces it’s putting Snapdragon Digital Chassis technology into its upcoming 2025 Cadillac Escalade IQ, Cadillac’s first all-electric full-size SUV. The design win includes more than just Snapdragon Digital Cockpit. The new vehicle will consist of Snapdragon Auto Connectivity and Snapdragon Ride.
Oracle Announces Fully Integrated Cloud Experience With New Compute Cloud@Customer
Oracle announces its new Compute Cloud@Customer offering, delivering the same compute infrastructure deployed within OCI public cloud, including compute, storage, and networking capabilities, in a rack-level on-prem solution.
Dynatrace Beats Earnings, Acquires A Company & Embraces Generative AI
Over the past month Dynatrace has beat earnings, announced the acquisition of Rookout, a developer-focused observability start-up, and is bringing new generative AI features to its a Davis AI engine.
Dell Technologies & NVIDIA Collaborate On Full-Stack Generative AI Solutions
Dell & NVIDIA deliver new validated designs for inference systems based on NVIDIA accelerators and software, a professional services offering to help enterprises embrace generative AI, and a new Dell Precision workstation for AI development.
VAST Data Unveils New VAST Data Platform
The new VAST Data Platform extends VAST’s universal storage capabilities with new data access and analytics features. The VAST Data Platform combines the VAST DataStore, VAST DataBase, and VAST DataSpace. The company also teased the VAST DataEngine, coming sometime next year. Let’s look at each of these elements.
In Conversation: VAST Data CMO Jeff Denworth on the New VAST Data Platform
At the launch of VAST Data’s new VAST Data Platform, principal analyst Steve McDowell talked with VAST CMO & cofounder Jeff Denworth about the new offering.
In Conversation: Michael McDowell on Networking, Private 5G, and Staying Current
Principal Analyst Steve McDowell caught up with IT journeyman Michael McDowell at the recent HPE Discover event in Las Vegas, where they had a wide-ranging conversation about networking, private 5G, as-a-Service, and even the value of a vendor event, like HPE Discover, to someone in IT.
Palo Alto Networks New CI/CD Prisma Cloud Features Protects Software Delivery Pipeline
Palo Alto Networks this month stepped up to address AppSec concerns around cloud native security with a new set of CI/CD security capabilities for its Prisma Cloud offering.
Lenovo Unveils New ThinkSystem Storage Offerings Targeted At AI And SMB
Lenovo announced two new storage offerings that build on its overall infrastructure momentum. The new ThinkSystem DG series of enterprise storage arrays are designed to balance the needs of high-performance workloads, such as AI, with capacity-optimized performance. Lenovo’s new ThinkSystem DM3010H storage array brings the enterprise-level features of the ThinkSystem DM series to the SMB market.
Oracle Introduces MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse
Oracle’s new MySQL HeatWave Lakehouse takes on the complexities of analyzing enterprise data outside the database, but as if that data were stored natively within the database.
IBM FlashSystem 5045 Arrives With Enhanced Data Resilience Capabilities
IBM introduced its new entry-level FlashSystem 5045 release are a broad set of features that bring enhanced data protection and cyber-resiliency into IBM’s entry-level flash storage space.
NetApp Updates BlueXP With New Cyber-Resiliency Features
NetApp recently updated its BlueXP hybrid-cloud management tool with new data protection and cybersecurity features.
In Conversation: Taruna Gandhi, VP Marketing, Pure Storage Digital Experience Team
At the recent Pure Storage Accelerate, Principal Analyst Steve McDowell had a conversation with Taruna Gandhi, Pure Storage’s VP/Marketing for its Digital Experience business about the shifting needs of the enterprise storage market.
IBM Extends FinOps And Cloud Management Capabilities Acquisition of Apptio
IBM this week announced its intention to acquire Apptio, a leader in IT financial and technology business management, for $4.6B in an all-cash deal.
Ampere’s Momentum Continues with New Oracle Database Support
Oracle and Ampere Computing held an event today to talk about Ampere’s role at Oracle, in Oracle’s cloud business, and in support of Oracle’s enterprise Oracle Database. Today’s announcement goes beyond Oracle Database simply gaining support for a new processor architecture. The news acknowledges Ampere’s credibility, will contribute to Ampere’s growing momentum, and will play […]
HPE Brings AI-as-a-Service to the Enterprise with Its GreenLake for LLMs
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has always taken a decidedly infrastructure-centric approach to delivering flexible consumption-based compute, storage, and networking to enterprise IT. HPE provides that flexibility through its popular HPE GreenLake offerings. Last week at its annual HPE Discover Event in Las Vegas, HPE introduced the first of what the company says will be many domain-specific […]
NVIDIA H100 Dominates New MLPerf v3.0 Benchmark Results
To know how a system performs across a range of AI workloads, you look at its MLPerf benchmark numbers. AI is rapidly evolving, with generative AI workloads becoming increasingly prominent, and MLPerf is evolving with the industry. Its new MLPerf Training v3.0 benchmark suite introduces new tests for recommendation engines and large language model (LLM) […]
MongoDB Embraces AI & Reduces Developer Friction With New Features
Servicing the quickly evolving needs of modern application development requires rapid innovation and fast product cycles. MongoDB demonstrated both last week at its MongoDB.local 2023 event in New York City, introducing a broad set of new features and services. The announcements cover a wide breadth of territory, with new capabilities to leverage the latest AI […]
Pure Storage Unveils New Market-Expanding Storage Products At Pure Accelerate
At Pure Accelerate, Pure Storage announced a new capacity-optimized scalable storage solution, new generations of its FlashArray storage products, new flash modules, and even new data resiliency SLAs in Evergreen//One. There’s a lot here that will make Pure’s customers happy. Its new capacity-optimized solutions should also give investors something to smile about. Replacing HDDs with Flash […]
Oracle Introduces new Exadata X10M for High-Performance OLTP Database
Oracle Corporation continues its cycle of redefining OLTP database performance with its purpose-built Exadata platforms. Last week the company continued the tradition, introducing its twelfth Exadata platform, the Oracle Exadata X10M database machine. The X10M is engineered to do only one thing: run Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Database faster and better than anything else […]
Elastic’s Elasticsearch Relevance Engine Enables Generative AI Search
Background The challenge for an enterprise wanting to harness the power of large language models (LLMs) is that a language model is only as capable as the data it’s trained on and understands. This hampers the ability to leverage the technology to solve real-world business problems. LLMs become infinitely more powerful when deeply integrated with […]
Scality ARTESCA 2.0 Object Storage Focuses On CyberSecurity And Enterprise Features
Background Scality is a company with the wind at its back. Chief Marketing Officer Paul Speciale recently told me that the company outgrew the overall storage market in 2022, increasing its business by about 20% year-on-year. A surprising amount of that business, nearly 40%, was from public sector business, while another 40% was from enterprise […]
The Innovative Cooling Approach Behind NVIDIA’s $5M COOLERCHIPS Grant
Background Cooling a data center was a challenge even before the current AI-driven boom in accelerated computing heated up. Servers run hot, with processor thermal designs reaching 500 watts by 2025. Add GPUs to the mix, some of which approach 700W today, and the problems of power consumption and heat dissipation begin to expand exponentially. […]
Infinidat Grows Its Momentum With New Cloud & Cyber-Resiliency Offerings
Background The storage market is the most competitive that I’ve ever seen. While enterprise sales cycles are unusually elongated, and the market is stuttering forward in fits-and-starts, innovation continues unabated. Nearly any solution currently offered by the top five storage vendors can be deployed without regret – there’s no dog in the bunch. As a […]
APEX Is The Center Of Dell’s Multi-Cloud Strategy
Background Nearly every OEM today offers some form of consumption-based infrastructure. Hewlett Packard Enterprise paved the way, and bet the company, on its HPE GreenLake offerings. Lenovo’s TruScale is another excellent option. The storage industry has also stepped up, with Pure Storage’s Evergreen offerings and NetApp’s Keystone each making industry-best storage solutions available as consumption-based […]