In those heady months following OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, much of the IT industry’s focus was on huge and expensive cloud infrastructures running on powerful GPU clusters to train the large language models that underpin the chatbots and other generative AI workloads. …
When it comes to funding rounds for high tech companies, the alphabet usually runs out somewhere around Series E. …
Depending on how you look at it, a database is a kind of sophisticated storage system or storage is a kind of a reduction of a database. …
If incumbent storage suppliers want to have a business in the hybrid cloud world, they have to find ways to erase the line between what’s in the cloud and what’s on-premises – and increasingly what’s at the edge. …
In its short lifetime, Vast Data has been able to put its stamp on a fast-changing data storage market. …
…For storage startups focused on the highest end of infrastructure, removing the costs associated with a hardware business might be the only way to reach potential.
It is a given that high performance computing systems of any kind are going to need high performance storage to keep them fed. …
When it comes to advanced technologies at the high end of compute, networking, and storage, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is one of the world’s pathfinding testbeds. …
One of the common themes – and one could say even the main theme – of The Next Platform is that some of technologies developed by the high performance supercomputing centers (usually in conjunction with governments and academia), the hyperscalers, the big cloud builders, and a handful of big and innovative large enterprises eventually get hardened, commercialized, and pushed out into the larger mainstream of information technology. …
After a decade of vendor consolidation that saw some of the world’s biggest IT firms acquire first-class HPC providers such as SGI, Cray, and Sun Microsystems, as well as smaller players like Penguin Computing, WhamCloud, Appro, and Isilon, it is natural to wonder who is next. …
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