IBM® recently announced Spectrum Virtualize on Microsoft Azure, Spectrum Scale High Performance Object, Spectrum Protect/Protect Plus new replication/cloud deep archive tier options and a new 38TB FlashCore module for ESS. …
MLperf™ Performance Report as of 30Aug2021
This Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) dispatch covers the MLperf™ v1.0 series of AI-ML-DL model training and inferencing benchmarks . This report focuses on training activity for Data Center environments and workloads. …
Pure Storage announces Portworx Data Services and Pure Fusion
Pure Storage, supported by its recent acquisition of Portworx, is releasing its newly launched Portworx Data Services (PDS) into early access program (EAP). Pure also announced Pure Fusion™ a new …
VMware Project Monterey (vSphere support for DPUs) EAP Begins
At VMworld 2020, VMware announced Project Monterey which was to add support for DPUs and other SmartNICs to VMware vSphere® ESXi™. VMware Early Access Program (EAP) to NVIDIA® BlueField® 2 …
IO500 performance report as of 30July2021
This Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) dispatch covers the IO500 benchmark. As you should recall, the IO500 is focused on HPC (high performance computing) workload file IO. Unlike other file benchmarks (using …
IBM announces FlashSystem Safeguarded Copy, STaaS, DS8980F & TS7770 enhancements
IBM® recently announced FlashSystem Safeguarded Copy, a new Storage-as-a-Service offering, and enhancements to DS8900F storage and TS7770 virtual tape library. IBM FlashSystem Safeguarded copy Safeguarded copy has been available on …
A performance reporter’s lament
As my newsletter subscribers will know, we try to publish a performance report to go with each issue. Yes, we have missed a few but for the most part, over …
NetApp Hybrid Cloud announcements
NetApp recently announced a slew of new offerings to knit their hybrid cloud solutions together into a comprehensive package for their customers. New NetApp Keystone Flex Subscriptions NetApp has offered …