Announced in August of last year, VMware vSAN Max was a major VMware Explore 2023 highlight. It’s now GA and ready for customers to explore petabyte-scale disaggregated storage for vSphere.

In the current computing market, there is growing competition among companies to develop machines that are AI-capable. The challenge isn’t who can build the biggest, baddest machine; it’s who can build the most heat-efficient machine.

The AI landscape is undergoing a transformative change driven by advancements in deep learning. A pivotal player in this transformation is PEAK:AiO, with its AI Data Server software. Leveraging HPE’s ProLiant DL380 Gen11 hardware, PEAK:AiO demonstrates a monumental leap in performance metrics, challenging the status quo of existing multi-node storage systems.

Dell has updated PowerScale and PowerScale OneFS so companies can quickly prepare, train, fine-tune, and infer AI models. Dell’s collaboration with NVIDIA allows customers to use a validated combination of NVIDIA DGX systems, Dell PowerScale storage, NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand, and Spectrum Ethernet networking to achieve faster and more efficient AI storage.

Dell is building the perfect beast to support Generative AI solutions, adding eight MI300X GPUs, 192GB of 5.3 TB/s High Bandwidth Memory (HBM3) per GPU for a total coherent HBM3 capacity of 1.5 TB per server, and over 21 petaflops of FP16 performance.

The AMD Instinct MI300 series introduces a new approach to accelerator architecture for AI, combining advanced technologies to drive progress in high-performance computing and artificial intelligence. With its sophisticated design, the MI300 series promises to reshape the boundaries of computational power and efficiency.

KIOXIA has announced that their RM7 Series Value SAS SSDs are now available for HPE ProLiant Gen11 servers.

Pliops, known for innovative data processors in cloud and enterprise data centers, is at it again making waves at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations, and Cloud Strategies Conference, unveiling the latest iteration of their Pliops Extreme Data Processor (XDP) and showcasing a groundbreaking MongoDB solution, touted as the fastest available.

At the IBM Quantum Summit, IBM made some groundbreaking announcements. First up, the ‘IBM Quantum Heron’ — a new entrant in their utility-scale quantum processors. This beast, engineered over four years, is setting records for IBM with its extreme performance metrics and low error rates.