SingleStore Unveils New Offerings to Unfreeze Data Lakehouses, Powering Intelligent Applications 

SingleStore, the real-time data platform for you to transact, analyze and contextualize, announced a bi-directional integration with Apache Iceberg that opens up a world of opportunities for building intelligent applications on data lakehouses. This integration addresses the critical challenge faced by enterprises where an estimated 90% of data remains “frozen” in lakehouses and is unusable for powering interactive applications, analytics or AI. 

Keep it Simple, Storage

In this contributed article, Jordan Winkelman, Quantum’s Field CTO, discusses how organizations across industries are facing a shift in infrastructure and storage requirements to deliver incredible performance, flexibility, and scalability on a level we’ve never seen before because of the proliferation of AI technologies. Moving forward, there will be a major focus on simplicity in storage—often through the use of AI—to keep up with changing demands, allowing organizations to maximize AI to give them a competitive advantage.

DDN is a Leading Data Storage Company Behind the Machine Learning and Generative AI Explosion

DDN®, a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and multi-cloud data management solutions, announced that it has sold more AI storage appliances in the first four months of 2023 than it had for all of 2022. Broad enthusiasm for the business opportunities presented by generative AI has resulted in a steady increase in investment in AI and AI infrastructure.

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.