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Infinidat Expands InfiniBox Line with New Solid-State Array to Deliver High Performance for the Most Demanding Enterprise Applications

Infinidat, a leading provider of enterprise-class storage solutions, announced the new InfiniBox SSA™, a groundbreaking solid-state array that delivers the industry’s highest performance for the most demanding enterprise applications. The InfiniBox SSA is powered by Infinidat’s proven deep learning software algorithms and extensive DRAM cache. It will consistently deliver performance and latency results that surpass all-flash arrays (AFAs), while providing the same acclaimed customer experience, 100 percent availability, and uncompromising reliability of the InfiniBox.

Four Reasons On-premises Object Storage is Right for Today’s Businesses

In this special guest feature, Marcel Hergaarden, senior manager for product marketing at Red Hat, explains why he believes on-premises object-based storage is the correct approach for organizations that want better control over their data and greater cost savings.

New Study Details Importance of TCO for HPC Storage Buyers

Total cost of ownership (TCO) is often assumed to be an important consideration for buyers of HPC storage systems. Because TCO is defined differently by HPC users, it’s difficult to make comparisons based on a predefined set of attributes. With this fact in mind, our friends over at Panasas commissioned Hyperion Research to conduct a worldwide study that asked HPC storage buyers about the importance of TCO in general, and about specific TCO components that have been mentioned frequently in the past two years by HPC storage buyers.

DDN Expands Data Management Capabilities and Launches New Range of Platforms for AI and HPC

DDN®, a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multicloud data management, announced new infrastructure and multicloud solutions. DDN announced the next generation of SFA® platforms, new data management features of its EXAScaler® “EXA5” file solution, which will be generally available over the next two calendar quarters.

The Big Data Era: Managing Challenges of Scale, Speed, Personal Information

In this contributed article, Data Vault modeling inventor Dan Linstedt, points out that while simply collecting lots of data presents comparatively few problems, most businesses run into two significant roadblocks in its use: extracting value and ensuring responsible handling of data to the standard required by data privacy legislation like GDPR.

Transformative Solutions for Accelerating AI, Analytics and Deep Learning at NVIDIA #GTC19

One pivotal message received by attendees of this week’s NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Silicon Valley is the importance of game-changing storage solutions and applications that empower users to accomplish their most challenging AI objectives.

AI-at-Scale Storage Solutions Advance Forward at GTC

Many organizations taking advantage of newly available AI technologies are seeking solutions for AI-at-scale, built to address the manageability challenges and productivity barriers by delivering a seamless and flexible end-to-end AI pipeline solution. Crowds at this week’s GTC conference hosted by NVIDIA saw new announcements that moved to satisfy these needs. For example, take Pure Storage’s new offerings: Hyperscale AIRI and FlashStack for AI.

AI Goes Mainstream

According to a recent Gartner survey, Artificial intelligence (AI) learning has moved from a specialized field into mainstream business use with 37 percent of respondents reporting their enterprises either had deployed AI or would do so shortly. WekaIO’s Barbara Murphy explores the path of artificial intelligence from the fringe to mainstream business practices. Find out what is driving AI growth and adoption.

How to Get to the Data-Enabled Data Center

Despite their many promising benefits, advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL) are creating some of the most challenging workloads in modern computing history and put significant strain on the underlying I/O, storage, compute and network. An AI-enabled data center must be able to concurrently and efficiently service the entire spectrum of activities involved in the AI and DL process, including data ingest, training and inference.

Pure Storage Introduces Data Hub Architecture

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG), the all-flash storage platform that helps innovators build a better world with data, introduced a data hub, the company’s vision to modernize storage architecture for unstructured, data-intensive workloads. Built on Pure Storage FlashBladeTM, Pure’s data hub is designed to be truly data centric and enable organizations to effectively utilize today’s most critical currency – data.