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Accelerating generative AI requires the right storage

CIO

In generative AI, data is the fuel, storage is the fuel tank and compute is the engine. All this data means that organizations adopting generative AI face a potential, last-mile bottleneck, and that is storage. Novel approaches to storage are needed because generative AI’s requirements are vastly different.

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The top 15 big data and data analytics certifications

CIO

Data and big data analytics are the lifeblood of any successful business. Getting the technology right can be challenging but building the right team with the right skills to undertake data initiatives can be even harder — a challenge reflected in the rising demand for big data and analytics skills and certifications.

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What is data analytics? Analyzing and managing data for decisions

CIO

What is data analytics? Data analytics is a discipline focused on extracting insights from data. It comprises the processes, tools and techniques of data analysis and management, including the collection, organization, and storage of data. What are the four types of data analytics?

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Cloud storage startup Wasabi raises $250M to reach unicorn status

TechCrunch

Two at the forefront are David Friend and Jeff Flowers, who co-founded Wasabi, a cloud startup offering services competitive with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Wasabi, which doesn’t charge fees for egress or API requests, claims its storage fees work out to one-fifth of the cost of Amazon S3’s.

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Pliops lands $100M for chips that accelerate analytics in data centers

TechCrunch

Part of the problem is that data-intensive workloads require substantial resources, and that adding the necessary compute and storage infrastructure is often expensive. Pliop’s processors are engineered to boost the performance of databases and other apps that run on flash memory, saving money in the long run, he claims.

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Optimizing for Price and Performance in the Cloud

CIO

Businesses, particularly those that are relatively new to the cloud, often overprovision resources to ensure performance or avoid running out of capacity. Analytics that take the guesswork out by determining the best selections, and ultimately automating instance configuration, is key.

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High-performance computing on AWS

Xebia

How does High-Performance Computing on AWS differ from regular computing? For this HPC will bring massive parallel computing, cluster and workload managers and high-performance components to the table. Today’s server hardware is powerful enough to execute most compute tasks. Why HPC and cloud are a good fit? No ageing infrastructure.

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