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Intel’s missed AI opportunity for Optane – could it return?

Today I’ve been doing some reading up on NVIDIA ICMSP, or Inference Context Memory Storage Platform. The technology is a new solution that uses NVIDIA BlueField-4 intelligent NICs to store AI inferencing model context data in a key-value store on persistent storage, such as NVMe SSDs. I won’t

Irrational Exuberance in the Storage Media Industry

Note: Neither Architecting IT or Brookend Ltd provide investment advice. The views expressed in this article are for information only and should not be taken as advice or recommendations in any form. If you are not clear on this, close this page now. Less than two weeks ago, we published

Could storage media shortages put a halt to VAST Data’s expansion plans?

VAST Data recently announced a Flash Reclamation Programme, aimed at repurposing solid-state media capacity to work with VAST’s storage operating system. Is this move symptomatic of the industry, or a challenge for a software-only provider that explicitly chose to exit the hardware market? Background In a response to the

Graviton5 continues Amazon’s implicit x86 replacement programme

At Reinvent 2025, AWS announced Graviton5, the next generation of Arm-based CPUs for EC2. The latest iteration improves performance over Graviton4 by 25%, with a redesign that abandons the NUMA architecture of its predecessor. With more new capacity of Graviton being deployed in AWS each year compared to x86, will