Research Notes

Research Note: NetApp AI Data Announcements @ GTC 2025

Steve McDowell March 26, 2025

At the recent GTC 2025 event, NetApp announced, in collaboration with NVIDIA, a comprehensive set of product validations, certifications, and architectural enhancements to its intelligent data products.

The announcements include NetApp’s integration with the NVIDIA AI Data Platform, support for NVIDIA’s latest accelerated computing systems, and expanded availability of enterprise-grade AI infrastructure offerings, including NetApp AFF A90 and NetApp AIPod.

Research Note: WEKA Augmented Memory Grid

Steve McDowell March 24, 2025

At the recent NVIDIA GTC conference, WEKA announced the general availability of its Augmented Memory Grid, a software-defined storage extension engineered to mitigate the limitations of GPU memory during large-scale AI inferencing.

The Augmented Memory Grid is a new approach that integrates with the WEKA Data Platform and leverages NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage (GDS) to bypass CPU bottlenecks and deliver data directly to GPU memory with microsecond latency.

Research Note: IBM Content-Aware Storage for RAG AI Workflows

Steve McDowell March 23, 2025

At the recent NVIDIA GTC event, IBM announced new content-aware capabilities for its Storage Scale platform, expanding its AI infrastructure offerings to support more efficient, semantically rich data access for enterprise AI applications.

Research Note: HPE’s New Full-Stack Enterprise AI Infrastructure Offerings

Steve McDowell March 23, 2025

At the recent NVIDIA GTC 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NVIDIA jointly introduced NVIDIA AI Computing by HPE, full-stack AI infrastructure offerings targeting enterprise deployment of generative, agentic, and physical AI workloads.

The solutions span private cloud AI platforms, observability and management software, reference blueprints, AI development environments, and new AI-optimized servers featuring NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture.

Research Note: Oracle Exadata X11M on Oracle Database@Azure

Steve McDowell March 22, 2025

Oracle recently announced that it’s expanded its Oracle Database@Azure service with the general availability of Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure, introducing a shared, multi-tenant deployment model. The service now spans 14 Azure regions, with 18 additional regions planned within the next 12 months.

Research Note: NVIDIA AI Storage Certifications & AI Data Platform

Steve McDowell March 18, 2025

At its annual GTC event in San Jose, NVIDIA announced an expansion of its NVIDIA-Certified Systems program, including the new NVIDIA AI Data Platform reference design, to include enterprise storage certification to help streamline AI factory deployments.