Research Notes

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: 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.

Research Note: HPE Storage Enhancements for AI

Steve McDowell March 18, 2025

At NVIDIA GTC 2025, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced a slew of new storage capabilities, including a new unified data layer. These capabilities are designed to accelerate AI adoption by integrating structured and unstructured data across multi-vendor and multi-cloud environments.

Research Note: Red Hat Releases OpenShift 4.18

Steve McDowell March 16, 2025

Red Hat recently released OpenShift 4.18, bringing enhancements to the solution for networking, virtualization, security, and deployment flexibility.

Research Note: VDURA V5000 All-Flash AI Storage Appliance