Research Notes

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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Research Note: Commvault’s Clumio Acquisition

Commvault Systems announced its acquisition of Clumio,, a startup specializing in backup solutions for public cloud environments, with a primary focus on AWS and Microsoft 365 environments.

The deal’s financial terms were not disclosed, though Commvault has stated that the acquisition price is “not material” and will be financed using its existing cash reserves.

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Research Note: IBM QisKit Performance & Quality Leadership

IBM recently announced that its Qiskit emerged as the highest-performing SDK in terms of both speed and quality inrecent benchmarking tests to evaluate quantum software development kits. These tests measured how efficiently SDKs could build, manipulate, synthesize, and transpile quantum circuits. Qiskit passed more tests than any other SDK and demonstrated superior performance metrics, outperforming competitors like TKET.

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