Research Notes

Research Note: Supermicro’s New Datacenter Scale Liquid Cooling

Supermicro recently announced a comprehensive, end-to-end liquid cooling solution for data centers. The solution encompasses critical hardware components such as Coolant Distribution Units (CDUs), cold plates, Coolant Distribution Manifolds (CDMs), cooling towers, and integrated management software.

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Research Note: VAST Data’s New AI Updates & Partnerships

VAST made a wide-ranging set of AI-focused announcements that extend it’s already impressive feature set to directly address the needs of enterprise AI. Beyond the new features, VAST also highlighted new strategic relationships and a new user community that help bring VAST technology into the enterprise.

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Research Note: MongoDB 8.0

MongoDB recently announced the general availability of MongoDB 8.0, the latest version of its document database platform. This release introduces substantial performance improvements, enhanced scalability,

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Research Note: Lenovo ThinkSystem V4 & 6th Gen Neptune

Lenovo recently announced significant updates to its enterprise infrastructure portfolio, introducing the new ThinkSystem V4 servers and the latest generation of its Neptune liquid-cooling technology, designed to address the growing demands of HPC and AI workloads.

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Research Note: Pure Storage Sept’24 Announcements

At its recent Pure Accelerate customer event in the the UK, Pure Storage announced several innovations and enhancements to its portfolio. The new capabilities focus on real-time enterprise file services, virtualization, and financial flexibility.

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Research Note: NetApp’s New AI Vision

At its recent Insight customer event, NetApp shared its vision for how its solutions will evolve to address these challenges. NetApp’s approach combines its existing ONTAP-based products with a new disaggregated architecture and new data manipulation capabilities that promise to deliver the efficiencies demanded by enterprise AI.

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