Big Data and Storage

This week, Micron announced that it began production of its 232-Layer NAND. I was given a chance to sit down with Jeremy Werner, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Micron’s Storage Business Unit, to discuss the significance of this feat and how it addresses increasing demands on storage.  Micron is a leader in storage …

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A rare thing is happening at Pure Storage. The company, founded on the strength of one product and set of technologies, enterprise flash storage, has quietly become much more than simply another storage company. Instead, pure today is about delivering and managing data with a simple cloud-like operating model. While storage is critical to this …

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HPE Discover 2022 started with a bang today as HPE announced the ProLiant RL300 Gen 11 server. Moor Insights & Strategy’s Patrick Moorhead and I were pre-briefed on this announcement by Executive Vice President and GM of HPE’s Compute Business, Neil MacDonald. In the following paragraphs, Pat and I will cover what was announced and …

HPE Armed And Ready For The Enterprise And Service Providers With Ampere-Based HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 Server  Read More »

Data is changing. It floods into organizations with a volume and velocity previously unseen in enterprise IT. However, transforming that data into business-impacting insights stresses even the most sophisticated of today’s storage systems – storage systems based on an architecture that has remained relatively unchanged for more than two decades.  VAST Data emerged less than …

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Oracle announced the availability of the Oracle Database API for MongoDB. This service enables enterprise organizations to realize the benefits of Oracle Autonomous Database without sacrificing or altering their MongoDB environments. If you are an enterprise IT organization looking to drive the most out of the data in your organization – this is important. And, …

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Enterprise IT is in the throes of an information explosion. Every prediction over the past decade about the year-over-year exponential explosion of data has come true. The big side-effect of digital transformation is that we are all awash in data, all waiting to provide business value.  Enterprise workloads with high capacity and performance requirements often …

Pure Storage Elevates FlashArray To Storage’s Top Tier Read More »

AMD introduced the Milan-X CPU and MI200 Series GPU to extend its high-performance computing (HPC) performance capabilities. The Milan-X combines packaging and unique 3-D stacking to achieve what AMD claims is significant performance gains for HPC workloads. Meanwhile, the MI200 is a new GPU design that competes directly with NVIDIA’s A100 GPU, an HPC workhorse.  What …

AMD Doubles Down On HPC With Milan-X And MI200 Read More »

The storage industry is in a moment of continuous disruption. This current period of innovation and change is unique because it’s no longer all about the hardware. Where we once gathered quarterly, eagerly awaiting bigger, faster, denser storage technologies – I want my NVMe – we now pine for something much different.  Cloud has changed …

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Last week Arvind Krishna, IBM’s chief executive and chairman for the past eighteen months, told a virtual roomful of financial and industry analysts that IBM’s strategy is one that’s laser-focused on helping enterprises navigate the next level of digital transformation. This next level of change is fueled by a rich mix of hybrid-cloud and artificial …

IBM’s Multi-Cloud Strategy Backed By New Storage Capabilities Read More »

In case you haven’t heard, AMD had a killer Q2. Its revenue of $3.85B represents a 99% growth year-over-year (YoY). Additionally, gross margin came in at 48% (up 4% YoY), and operating income at $831M.  In the datacenter group, the numbers were even more impressive. Enterprise, Embedded, and Semi-custom (EESC) reported $1.6B, up 183% YoY. …

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HPE kicked off Discover with the unveiling of Project Aurora, a silicon-to-workload and edge-to-cloud security solution. With Project Aurora (first available on its cloud-native GreenLake Lighthouse platform), HPE claims to deliver a zero-trust architecture that protects infrastructure and workloads from the most advanced and insidious attacks. Does HPE deliver? And what is zero-trust? We will …

HPE’s Project Aurora Is A Big Deal – Here Is What You Need To Know Read More »

The public cloud providers have spoiled IT architects.  The convenience of opening a web browser and deploying resources without actually needing to buy any expensive servers or storage arrays is unmatched in the history of enterprise IT.   At the same time, placing all of your workloads in the public cloud is not the solution to …

APEX Takes Dell Beyond Just Storage-As-A-Service Read More »

The realities of deploying cloud-native workloads force a different way of thinking about storage. Data that is location-independent introduce a flurry of new challenges. Cloud-native container technologies place different demands on persistent storage. Storage software must evolve to address these challenges.   Data management and data placement are complex problems to solve. Ensuring consistent access and …

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When AMD launched its 1st Generation EPYC processor, it had a very narrow focus on where it would land—the cloud. While the CPU had many features that made it attractive to the enterprise, the company was measured in its approach. Of course, the company wouldn’t turn away other opportunities, but its theme, “born in the cloud,” …

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