VAAI
VAAI - vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) is a set of features that enables a VMWare ESXi host to offload virtual machine (VM) and storage management operations to a...
vVols
vVols - Virtual Volumes - vVols is a VMware vSphere SAN/NAS management and integration framework that exposes virtual disks as native storage objects and enables array-based operations at the virtual...
UDIMM
UDIMM - Unbuffered Dual Inline Memory Module. This is a DIMM (Dual Inline Memory Module) card containing DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) with no signal buffering, meaning that address...
GRAID’s killer RAID competitive comparison
GRAID has a performance comparison document that, on the numbers, would seem to kill the Broadcom competition pretty well stone dead – although it's not compared itself with the...
NIS2
NIS2 - The EU cybersecurity Network and Information Security 2 directive updates the 2016 NIS directive and takes effect on October 18, 2024. It has stricter security requirements, faster...
DORA
DORA - The EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act is a set of EU regulations to enhance the cyber resilience of financial institutions aiming to ensure they can continue to function...
Nemo
Nemo - NeMo (Neural Modules) is an Nvidia framework and toolkit designed to build, train, and deploy large-scale language models, speech recognition, and generative AI models. It’s specifically tailored...
LDPC
LDPC - Low-Density Parity Check - a coding algorithm that uses linear error correcting codes (ECC) featuring iterative belief propagation decoding to detect and correct errors in read or...
NIM
NIM - Nvidia Inference Microservices - A software library of containerized services created by GPU hardware and software supplier Nvidia to prepare data to be used in generative AI...
Storage and the Supercloud
Analyst firm Wikibon has defined a new layer of technology – the Supercloud – and storage has a role within it.
Update: Dave Vellante note added at end re many...
Storage news ticker – October 6
Research house IDC has reported that spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 22.4 percent year-over-year in the second...
Storage news ticker – October 5
Network and storage network comms equipment supplier ATTO has signed a distribution agreement with Adistec Corp. that extends the availability of the ATTO high-performance storage and network connectivity portfolio...