The Dell PowerScale SmartSync feature provides data replication for file and object deployments on-premises or in the cloud. SmartSync enables file-to-file transfers between PowerScale clusters using RPC and file-to-object copy transfers to S3 (ECS, AWS) and Azure cloud systems. SmartSync ensures that we have a consistent copy of your data on another PowerScale cluster or…
A guest post by Nomuka Luehr In the previous parts of this series, we have discussed various aspects of generative AI and language model training, including transformer-based models, LLM training, reinforcement learning, and pre-trained model fine-tuning. In this final part, we will delve into the broader topics of general AI training and inference. Inferencing Once the…
A guest post by Nomuka Luehr How does Fine Tuning work, what methods are available ? Firstly, pre-trained language models have been a game changer in natural language processing (NLP) and have made it possible to achieve state-of-the-art results on a variety of language tasks with limited resources. However, pre-trained models may not always perform optimally…
A guest post by Anuraj PD The Dell CSM Encryption module provides the capability to encrypt user data on the volumes provisioned by CSI drivers. The volume data is encrypted on the Kubernetes worker host running the application workload, transparently for the application. Under the hood, gocryptfs, an open-source FUSE based encryptor, is used to encrypt…
Before 2022 ended, we released the CSI 2.5 plugins for our storage arrays, you can read all about it here but, as I said before, this was just the beginning.. Today, I would like to announce a new feature that have been in the making, for quite a while: Application Mobility https://dell.github.io/csm-docs/docs/applicationmobility/ NOTE: This tech-preview…
On the previous blog post, we covered the SyncIQ Jobs: The three phases of SyncIQ Configuring a SyncIQ policy Impacts of modifying SyncIQ policies SyncIQ performance rules And on this blog post we will cover the following topics SyncIQ design considerations Failover and failback Superna Eyeglass DR Edition SyncIQ security SyncIQ design considerations Prior to…
A few weeks ago, we released some big updates for the Kubernetes CSI plugin and our storage portfolio This blog post will be focusing on the new PowerScale CSI Driver 1.5 CSI Driver for Dell EMC PowerScale v1.5 supports the following new features: Added support for Kubernetes v1.20 Added support for OpenShift 4.7 with RHEL…
We have just released some new CSI plugins for PowerStore, PowerMax & PowerScale The CSI Driver for Dell EMC PowerStore supports the following new features / changes: Added support for OpenShift 4.5/4.6 with RHEL and CoreOS worker nodes Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.9 Added support for Ubuntu 20.04 Added support for…
ESA Overview: Dell Enterprise Storage Analytics (ESA) for vROps solution provides a single, end-to-end view of virtualized infrastructures (servers to storage) powered by the VMware vRealize Operations Manager analytics engine. ESA for vROps delivers actionable performance analysis and proactively facilitates increased insight into storage resource pools to help detect capacity and performance issues so they can…
At June 25-26, we had the pleasure to present at Tech Field Day, here are the youtube links to the sessions we had Dell Technologies Executive Kickoff at Tech Field Day PowerUp Dell Technologies Introduces PowerStore Dell Technologies PowerStore Deep Dive with Chief Architect Dan Cummins The session doodles by Barry coombs @virtualisedreal (https://www.techdoodles.co.uk/ )…
