New technologies are coming to storage and data centres that adds to the hierarchy of choices available to system and solution architects. New media expands on the portfolio of hard drive and SSD technologies that have represented the bulk of persistent storage used in the enterprise. The use of these solutions can either be as a cache or tier of storage. We look at both to determine the pros and cons of each approach.
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
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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