NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage (MIO GDS) enables a direct data path for direct memory access (DMA) transfers between GPU memory and storage, which avoids a bounce buffer through the CPU. The direct path increases system bandwidth and decreases the latency and utilization load on the CPU. With this performance improvement, for example, oil and gas refineries can pinpoint drill locations in half the time. And weather services can run climate simulations up to six times faster to identify extreme weather patterns.   GDS provides value in many ways: Bandwidth is two to eight times highe ..read more

“Automation is driving the decline of banal and repetitive tasks.” —Amber Rudd   What do we mean when we talk about automation? Automation solutions replace manual processes with automated workflows. Personally, I’d like to automate the laundry, cleaning up after dinner, and submitting my weekly update report.   Cognizant states the benefits rather succinctly:   Within business operations, automation solutions help companies work more efficiently by streamlining workflows and replacing error-prone manual processes with accurate automated ones. Within IT operations, they streaml ..read more

With the NetApp® ONTAP® AI proven architecture, powered by NVIDIA DGX systems and NetApp cloud-connected all-flash storage, you can streamline the flow of data. You can also reliably speed up analytics, training, and inference with your data fabric that spans from edge to core to cloud.   NetApp ONTAP AI is one of the first converged infrastructure stacks to incorporate the NVIDIA DGX A100 system, the world’s first 5-petaflops AI system, and NVIDIA high-performance InfiniBand and Ethernet switches. Product Tour The ONTAP AI 3D photorealistic interactive product tour offers 360 ..read more

Organizations today want to improve security and find different ways to reduce IT spending. CIOs and CTOs are thinking aggressively in this direction more so than before the global pandemic.   At NetApp, we strive to create products and solutions that can help you achieve your goals. Today, we’re thrilled to announce availability of NetApp® SnapCenter® 4.5. The product is now available for download for all NetApp ONTAP® customers. SnapCenter is simple, centralized, scalable software that provides application-consistent data protection and clone management for enterprise workloads ho ..read more

Are you one of our many customers who is transitioning from Splunk classic architecture to the new Splunk SmartStore? Or are you starting out as a new SmartStore user, ready to take advantage of all that it offers? Splunk and NetApp have completed official certification for multisite architectures based on Splunk SmartStore and NetApp® StorageGRID® object storage. So no matter where you are in your journey, you can be sure that the solution will deliver an industry-leading object storage solution for your Remotestore tier.   Splunk SmartStore is a deployment architecture that delivers sev ..read more

When it comes to IT architecture planning, there’s a lot on the line. Make a few wrong moves (even if they seem right at the time), and you could pay in terms of business flexibility, unnecessarily high operational costs, competitive weakness, or all the above. Make the right moves, and you could become an institutional hero with a license to pursue your wildest IT and vacation dreams… or at least get some recognition and a nice raise. The problem is that with on-premises, hybrid cloud, cloud, and multicloud options, there are many approaches to consider and trade-offs to weigh.   If you ..read more

It’s no surprise that artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning (AI/ML/DL) are among organizations’ top initiatives for becoming more innovative and competitive. The main reasons for this trend are: A data explosion, producing much of the data that’s a key requirement for AI training Faster computing with technologies such as GPUs Availability of software frameworks and tools to develop and operationalize AI algorithms No more silos—complete AI lifecycle with FlexPod With FlexPod®, advancing your AI/ML/DL initiatives is simpler than you might think. You don’t need to inve ..read more

Healthcare organizations are on the front line with COVID-19. You face unprecedented demand for availability, flexibility, and scalability. At the same time, you need to maintain the quality of care you provide and keep your clinical services affordable.   Your departments have needed to be transformed due to COVID-19, and you have needed to support remote working. To quickly facilitate collaboration between services, departments, and external organizations, you had to reallocate resources. Overnight, digital transformation had to happen.   Some organizations have been able to handle ..read more

So, your organization has decided to use machine learning (ML) and to invest resources that can deliver business value to your customers. Data scientists and data engineers are now solving problems that seemed next to impossible a few years back, and proofs of concept (POCs) are showing exceptional results.   And now it’s the moment of truth: Business executives are asking when you can deploy the trained models into production!   It shouldn’t be difficult, because most of the complex work is done, right? Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as it seems. According to the deeplearning.ai 2 ..read more

So, your organization has decided to use machine learning (ML) and to invest resources that can deliver business value to your customers. Data scientists and data engineers are now solving problems that seemed next to impossible a few years back, and proofs of concept (POCs) are showing exceptional results.   And now it’s the moment of truth: Business executives are asking when you can deploy the trained models into production!   It shouldn’t be difficult, because most of the complex work is done, right? Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as it seems. According to the deeplearning.ai 2 ..read more