Pure Storage Accelerates Enterprise AI Adoption to Meet Growing Demands with NVIDIA AI 

Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers advanced data storage technology and services, today announced new validated reference architectures for running generative AI use cases, including a new NVIDIA OVX-ready validated reference architecture. As a leader in AI, Pure Storage, in collaboration with NVIDIA, is arming global customers with a proven framework to manage the high-performance data and compute requirements they need to drive successful AI deployments. 

Embracing the Agile Data Platform: A Key to Business Survival Today

In this contributed article, Philip Miller, a Customer Success Manager, Senior, for Progress, discusses how embracing an agile data platform, which enables an organization to navigate the complex volume of data effectively, is crucial for survival in today’s data-driven business landscape. In today’s global marketplace, moving from a rigid data management to a dynamic platform allows organizations to extract meaningful insights quickly, which in turn fosters innovation and resilience.

Hammerspace Unveils the Fastest File System in the World for Training Enterprise AI Models at Scale

Hammerspace, the company orchestrating the Next Data Cycle, unveiled the high-performance NAS architecture needed to address the requirements of broad-based enterprise AI, machine learning and deep learning (AI/ML/DL) initiatives and the widespread rise of GPU computing both on-premises and in the cloud. This new category of storage architecture – Hyperscale NAS – is built on the tenants required for large language model (LLM) training and provides the speed to efficiently power GPU clusters of any size for GenAI, rendering and enterprise high-performance computing.

The Future of Computing: Harnessing Molecules for Sustainable Data Management

In this contributed article, Erfane Arwani, founder and CEO of Biomemory, discusses how molecular computing (using molecules rather than traditional silicon chips for computational tasks) could be a critical component in revolutionizing data storage, despite the exponential growth of AI.

Post-Postgres: What’s Driving a Great Migration from the Iconic Database

In this contributed article, Tanya Bragin, product lead at ClickHouse, offers a thesis premised on an industry-wide shift from OLTP databases like Postgres for everything and into OLTP for certain functions and OLAP for others.

Optimizing Performance and Cost Savings for Elastic on Pure Storage

[SPONSORED POST] Organizations can now confidently embrace Elastic, enhance their hot tier storage, and seamlessly manage historical data with cost-efficient capacity-optimized storage. Pure Storage not only meets the demands of the modern data landscape but also empowers organizations to simplify their Elastic architecture, reflecting the industry trend towards a more streamlined and efficient approach.

Big Data Industry Predictions for 2024

Welcome to insideBIGDATA’s annual technology predictions round-up! The big data industry has significant inertia moving into 2024. In order to give our valued readers a pulse on important new trends leading into next year, we here at insideBIGDATA heard from all our friends across the vendor ecosystem to get their insights, reflections and predictions for what may be coming. We were very encouraged to hear such exciting perspectives.

Why We Need Data Mesh Architecture To Cope With Exponential Data Growth

In this contributed article, Ravi Narayanan, VP and Global Practice Leader for Data & Analytics, and Partnerships at Nisum, believes that in a world where data is expanding at a constant pace, knowing how to structure it is crucial. Leveraging data mesh, companies can empower departments with streamlined processes, visibility of their metrics, and data ownership.

To Make the Splunk Acquisition Successful, a New Approach to Storage is Needed

In this contributed article, Marty Kagan, CEO and co-founder of Hydrolix, discusses what other companies in the cloud database platform industry think about the Cisco acquisition of Splunk and what it means to companies in the database platform and observability space.

“Above the Trend Line” – Your Industry Rumor Central for 12/20/2023

Above the Trend Line: your industry rumor central is a recurring feature of insideBIGDATA. In this column, we present a variety of short time-critical news items grouped by category such as M&A activity, people movements, funding news, financial results, industry alignments, customer wins, rumors and general scuttlebutt floating around the big data, data science and machine learning industries including behind-the-scenes anecdotes and curious buzz.