Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Pure Storage every launched new storage-related services focused at high-performance workloads – which implies AI.
HPE expanded its HPE GreenLake for File Storage providing with the addition of a brand new high-density, all-flash storage array, which the corporate stated is aimed toward large-scale enterprise AI and knowledge lake workloads.
The brand new HPE product is an improve to the HPE Alletra Storage MP array launched final yr, with 4 occasions the capability and twice the system efficiency per rack unit of the earlier technology, in keeping with HPE. The seller additionally says the improve provides as much as 2.3 occasions the efficiency density and as much as 2.3 occasions the capability of aggressive choices.
True to its identify, the up to date HPE GreenLake for File Storage line is aimed strictly at file-based knowledge. It has a separate product line, HPE GreenLake for Block Storage, for scale-out block storage, which it launched final month.
HPE GreenLake for File Storage is constructed to permit enterprises to scale efficiency and capability independently. “Efficiency at scale limitations will be a problem for AI storage, significantly legacy scale-out NAS options,” stated David Yu, HPE storage product advertising and marketing, in a blog post concerning the upgraded platform. “These options can scale capability, however they’ll’t scale efficiency linearly to match that capability.”
It’s designed to ship sustained efficiency “that spans all of the levels of AI – from knowledge aggregation, knowledge preparation, and coaching and tuning to inferencing,” Yu wrote. It achieves this by utilizing a disaggregated, shared-everything, modular structure that allows unbiased scaling of efficiency and capability.
