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AWS tries to lure users to its cloud via storage ease of use

Network World

At its re:Invent 2024 conference this week, AWS rolled out five new storage tools and services with the goal of making its offerings easier to work with, if not cheaper or better. Looking at this holistically, AWS is delivering updates across the data management/storage stack, from ingest to making data useful and usable to management.”

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Predictable AWS cloud deployment resources allow full account takeover

Network World

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is urging its open-source Cloud Development Kit (CDK) users to apply fixes now available for a flaw that, under certain circumstances, can allow complete account takeover.

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Enterprises reevaluate virtualization strategies amid Broadcom uncertainty

Network World

In estimating the cost of a large-scale VMware migration , Gartner cautions: VMwares server virtualization platform has become the point of integration for its customers across server, storage and network infrastructure in the data center. But, again, standalone hypervisors cant match VMware, particularly for storage management capabilities.

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IBM Bets On Open Source To Hyperaccelerate HCI And Hybrid Cloud Adoption

Forrester IT

Today, IBM announced its new IBM Spectrum Fusion product, first as a scale-out hardware product, but with a roadmap for a software defined storage (SDS) solution. This new product is billed as a storage solution, but it is much more. It is really a “glue-all” product poised to change the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market.

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Potential Nvidia chip shortage looms as Chinese customers rush to beat US sales ban

Network World

There was a surge in demand for the H20 following the arrival of Chinese startup DeepSeeks ultra low-cost, open-source AI model in January. It blocked the sale of Nvidias A100 and H100 chips, leading the company to develop the less powerful A800 and H800 chips for the market; they were also subsequently banned.

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Packaged offerings promise to make AI infrastructure deployment easier

Network World

These applications require AI-optimized servers, storage, and networking and all the components need to be configured so that they work well together. For example, Cisco unveiled its AI Pods in October, which leverage Nvidia GPUs in servers purpose-built for large-scale AI training, as well as the networking and storage required.

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Bridging the gap: Unified platform for VM and containerized workloads

CIO Business Intelligence

The open-source Kubernetes platform automates container deployment, scaling, and management, but it’s a complex environment. Additionally, the platform provides persistent storage for block and file, object storage, and databases.