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 […]
Cognizant Shows Growing Momentum In Health Sciences
Background Cognizant is a professional services company – that employs a workforce of over 350,000 associates. Cognizant makes its money, and furthers its reputation, helping other organizations achieve their digital transformation goals. It has a substantial presence in health sciences, communications, financial services, and automotive, to touch on just a few of its market segments. Cognizant […]
Inside the IBM FlashSystem Realtime Ransomware Detection
Background As the market for cybersecurity products explodes, we’re also beginning to see innovative approaches to detecting threats built into the infrastructure. A storage array, for example, should be able to detect data corruption. After all, storage is where your data lives. The challenge, however, is that a storage array often needs more context to […]
Nutanix’s Project Beacon Lights The Way To A Unified Hybrid Multi-Cloud Future
Background In the hybrid-cloud world, every infrastructure has a distinct way of managing workloads. Every cloud, even on-prem consumption-based offerings, forces a different control plane. Unfortunately, for all the flexibility that the cloud enables, that flexibility is offset by increased complexity. This is a problem facing nearly every enterprise IT shop. Nutanix’s Cloud Manager offering […]
Quantum Moves into File & Object Storage Market with its new Myriad Solution
Quantum Corporation jumped head-first into the scale-out file and object storage market earlier this month with the announcement of its new Quantum Myriad all-flash storage solution.
HPE Releases New GreenLake Storage Options, Partners with VAST Data
While HPE announced a set of compelling new storage-related offerings for GreenLake, we were most surprised by the news that HPE tapped VAST Data to deliver the engine behind its new File Services solution.
IBM Introduces New Z-Series and LinuxONE Rack-Friendly Configurations Focused on Sustainability
In an environment where IT sustainability is a critical element of nearly every enterprise’s ESG goals, the LinuxONE and Z16 stories are compelling. Even without sustainability as a goal, the nearly 40:1 consolidation ratio of LinuxONE to x86-based servers is unbeatable by any other solution.
NetApp’s 2023 Cloud Complexity Report
NetApp’s new 2023 Cloud Complexity Report shows that corporate leadership is recognizing that the reality of the public cloud is far messier.
Oracle Adds New AI-Enabling Features to MySQL HeatWave
Oracle announces the latest batch of updates to HeatWave that bring new capabilities for enterprise machine learning, AI-driven automation, and multi-cloud support.
NVIDIA Grows Momentum in Public Cloud
NVIDIA lives at the center of the AI revolution. Its GPUs are the most common, and most powerful. Beyond its hardware, NVIDIA is enabling the adoption of AI with software tools that span the gamut from edge inference to autonomous driving to medical imaging. The list truly is limitless.
NVIDIA Updates Data Center Platform Strategy at GTC 2023
It’s become clear that NVIDIA strives to own the entire platform for AI-infused analytics. The time is right, as accelerated AI is fueling a shift in how enterprises derive value from their data and how businesses operate and engage with their customers.
HPE Grows GreenLake with OpsRamp Acquisition
HPE has filled the gaps in its GreenLake offerings with an aggressive run of strategic acquisitions. Since announcing GreenLake in 2018, HPE has acquired nearly a dozen companies that directly contribute to GreenLake functionality. Today it added OpsRamp to that list.
VAST Data Reports Record Momentum in 2022
VAST is not a company that’s shy about its success or aspirations, and appears to have reasonable cause to brag. VAST Data told us this week that it more than doubled its business in 2022, exiting the year with its best quarter in company history.
Palo Alto Networks Earnings Show Growing Momentum
Background The most recent projections from Canalys show that the cybersecurity market is expected to grow by 13.2% in 2023, with total spending of up to $223.8B worldwide. Cybersecurity products make up $79.5B and are expected to grow by 13% this year. Palo Alto Networks benefits from the overall growth of the market. The company […]
Dynatrace Blends AI, Automation & Observability With New Offerings
Understanding what’s happening across that infrastructure is a difficult challenge — predicting what may happen next in that infrastructure? That seems impossible.
The 2023 Enterprise Storage Agenda
2023 is going to be an exciting year in enterprise storage. Principal Analyst Steve McDowell walks us through his predictions for the storage industry over the coming calendar year.