At their foundation, AI systems are massive data engines. Training, deploying, and operating AI models requires handling enormous datasets—and the speed at which data moves between storage and compute can make or break performance. In many organizations, this data movement becomes the biggest constraint. Even with better algorithms, companies frequently point to limitations in data…
One of the companies that impressed me at AI Infrastructure Field Days was Solidigm. Solidigm, which was spun out of Intel’s storage and memory group, is a manufacturer of high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) optimized for AI and data-intensive workloads. What I particularly appreciated about Solidigm’s presentation was, rather than diving directly into speeds and feeds,…
Yesterday the OpenStack summit kicked off here in Austin, TX. This week’s event is being attended by 7,500 individuals. To give some perspective on the project’s growth, at the inaugural design summit back in 2010 there were 75 people in attendance. The purpose of this initial invite-only event was to “develop a roadmap for the first…
Yesterday morning, Laura Yecies, CEO of SugarSync stopped by for some meetings here at Dell. SugarSync, if you’re not familiar with it, provides instant and secure online file sync and backup for your PC, Mac, or mobile device. Before Laura’s first meeting we grabbed a cup of coffee and did a quick video. Here it…
With today’s post, I’m right at the mid-point of my series of video interviews from Cloud Computing Expo. Today’s post offers a two-for-one special, Gluster CEO Hitesh Chellani along with Jack O’Brien who heads Gluster’s product management. Some of the topics Hitesh and Jack tackle: Gluster as a general-purpose open source cluster platform that runs…
I first met Chander Kant, CEO of open source cloud back provider Zmanda, last year at the MySQL conference. At that time we did an audio interview. Just like Jonathan, this time around I caught him on “film.” This is the fourth out of nine interviews I conducted earlier this month at Cloud World/Open Source…