One could say that IBM z or the mainframe was the first IT platform solution that made it big in the modern age. As such, it commanded significant market share …
SPECstorage_2020 Performance report as of 27Jan2022
This Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) dispatch covers SPECstorage_2020 benchmarks . These are a new series of benchmarks which replace SPECsfs2014. They have introduced two new workloads, AI and Genomics and have …
MLperf v1.1 DC training performance as of 17Dec2021
This Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) dispatch covers the MLperf™ v1.1 series of AI-ML-DL model training and inferencing benchmarks . This report focuses on training activity for the Data Center computing environment. …
NVIDIA GTC Spring 2022 announcements
NVIDIA held their Spring GTC 2022 conference this month and announced many new products as well as updates to current solutions. The biggest news was a new GPU, the Hopper …
IBM Q1-2022 storage announcements
Modern IT is undergoing a massive transformation, including the realms of data storage. Adding more cyber security features and upgrading performance are all proper moves for enterprise storage vendors like …
IO500 performance report as of 25Nov2021
This Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) dispatch covers the IO500 benchmark[1]. Recall that the IO500 is focused on HPC (high performance computing) file IO. Unlike other file benchmarks (using NFS and SMB), …
MLperf™ Performance Report as of 28Oct2021
This Storage Intelligence (StorIntTM) dispatch covers the MLperfTM v1.1 series of AI-ML-DL model training and inferencing benchmarks1. This report focuses on inferencing activity for the Data Center computing environment and …
VMware VMworld 2021 announcements
At VMworld 2021, VMware announced many updates including VMware vSphere 7 Update 3, VMware vSAN 7 Update 3 and additional projects to be rolled out over the coming months/years. Below …