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 …
IBM announces new NVIDIA GPUDirect ESS 3200 performance results
IBM® recently announced new performance results with IBM Elastic Storage® System (ESS) 3200 on NVIDIA DGX™ systems using the GPUDirect™ Storage interface. IBM ESS 3200 DGX A100 GPUDirect performance The …
MLperf™ HPC Training Performance Report as of May’21
This Storage Intelligence (StorInt™) dispatch covers the MLperf™ series of AI-ML-DL model training and inferencing benchmarks . This report focuses on training activity for HPC environments. MLperf v1.0 HPC training …
Dell’s new PowerStore, PowerScale & APEX offerings
Dell Technologies announced a couple of new storage appliances and three new APEX-aaS offerings at Dell Technologies World 2021 and the previous month. New Dell EMC PowerStore 500 appliance The …