NVIDIA GTC 2023 kicked off by introducing new products, partners, innovations, and software. To give you an idea of the breadth of announcements, the keynote lasted 78 minutes. Four new platforms were announced, each optimized for a specific generative AI inference workload and specialized software.
As NVIDIA kicks off GTC 2023 today with a raft of announcements, Dell Technologies sent a reminder that the Dell PowerEdge XE9680, announced in November during SC22, is shipping on March 22! The XE9680 is Dell’s first 8-way GPU platform to ship with NVIDIA H100 GPUs or NVIDIA A100 GPUs.
Lenovo shared performance numbers, announced new Lenovo ThinkSystem D4390 hardware, and a ThinkSystem DM software update. According to a report by IDC, Lenovo has been ranked the #1 global storage solutions vendor in the $25K and under market and the #5 storage provider globally.
IBM and Cohesity have collaborated on a solution that increases data security and resiliency in hybrid cloud environments. IBM Storage Defender Solution combines both companies’ data protection, cyber resilience, and data management capabilities.
In August 2022, VMware announced the release of vSAN 8 and the Express Storage Architecture (ESA), a new storage architecture within the vSAN platform that introduced improved performance, scalability, resilience, and simplicity with high-performance storage devices.
AMD’s new EPYC Embedded 9004 series processors have hit the market, scaling to an amazing 96 cores per socket. These “Zen 4” chips are aimed at industrial, networking, and storage uses and have a long seven-year availability.
Lenovo announced the launch of the ThinkStation PX, P7, and P5 advanced desktop workstations that use the latest Intel processors, supporting up to 120 cores and NVIDIA RTX professional graphics.
PEAK:AIO launched the latest version of its AI Data Server, doubling the performance of the previous version with 80GB/s from a single storage node and reducing the cost of ultra-performance AI data storage by up to 70 percent. PEAK:AIO provides a software-defined storage platform for artificial intelligence applications.
The Pure Storage DirectCompress Accelerator (DCA) compression card increases inline compression by 30%, enabling customers to store more data on their FlashArrays at a lower cost.
Supermicro has announced the latest addition to its high-performance, high-density petascale class all-flash NVMe server family. The company has expanded its storage solutions portfolio for intensive I/O workloads by introducing all-flash servers utilizing Gen5 EDSFF E3.S SSDs across multiple product lines. EDSFF isn’t new to Supermicro; they were one of the first to release commercial
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