#ai-workloads

#ai-workloads

The more things change, the more they stay the same, as the French say. That's certainly the case in enterprise storage. Here we review the storage supplier profiles published this year on ComputerWeekly.com, and find all the key players building on key themes of the past decade. These include: flash storage (often QLC for increased density), hybrid cloud operations, storage and backup for containerised apps, as-a-service models of purchasing, and storage for AI workloads.

"One is just how fast the servers can give you back an answer so that you can make a decision. That's really important in a credit card authorization loop..."

Google plans to pause non-essential AI workloads to protect power grids, maintaining operations during peak energy demand by shifting tasks to available power sources.

IBM has introduced Power11 servers designed for AI workloads, offering bandwidth up to 1,200 GB/s, significantly outperforming x86 systems with a 99.9999% uptime promise.