— this is a rare opportunity to take a look at behind the scenes of how we innovate at Dell Technologies, in this case, around AI —- A guest post by Rachel Shalom In this post, I will tell you about a winning hackathon project at Dell global hackathon. The idea is to use Gen-AI to help lower…
A Guest post by Anuraj PD In this demo we will do the offline installation of Dell Container Storage Modules on Red Hat OpenShift Cluster and will integrate Dell PowerFlex with the OpenShift Cluster. Red Hat OpenShift Cluster 4.14 is already deployed. Clone the Dell CSM Operator GitHub repository. Configure CSI Sidecar images in the sample…
A post by Martin Hayes Just before the New Year, PowerProtect DDVE on AWS 7.13 dropped. With it came official documented support for AWS S3 Intelligent Tiering. Indeed manual or direct tiering is supported also using S3 Lifecycle Management, but Intelligent Tiering is recommended as it, well just works, and with no nasty retrieval costs…
A guest post by Nomuka Luehr & Fabricio Bronzati NVIDIA’s LLM Playground, part of the NeMo framework is an innovative platform for experimenting with and deploying large language models (LLMs) for various enterprise applications. It’s currently in a private, early access stage and offers the following features: Experimentation with LLMs: The Playground provides an environment to use and experiment…
A Guest post by Anuraj PD Confluent for Kubernetes (CFK) is a cloud-native control plane for deploying and managing Confluent in private cloud environment. It provides a standard and simple interface to customize, deploy, and manage Confluent Platform through declarative API. Tiered Storage makes storing huge volumes of data in Kafka manageable by reducing operational burden…
A Guest Post by Damian Erangey Welcome back to our in-depth exploration of APEX Block Storage for AWS. In the first part of our series, we delved into the nuances of APEX Block Storage as a viable option for database workloads and its interplay with various AWS volume types. Our discussion revealed the intricate details of performance,…
Dell PowerScale OneFS is the operating system that powers the PowerScale scale-out NAS storage platform. It is designed to handle large-scale, unstructured data with high performance, efficiency, and simplicity. OneFS combines the functions of a file system, a volume manager, and a data protection system into a single, unified layer that spans across multiple nodes…
A guest post by Erik Zandboer As we start to see more flavors of Linux, more flavors of k8s and more flavors of k8s platforms and we add the Dell’s storage portfolio to that, just how many different combinations would you need to validate? Yes you are right, the number would probably get close to…
A guest post by Darren Miller There has been a tremendous surge of information about artificial intelligence (AI), and generative AI (GenAI) has taken center stage as a key use case. Companies are looking to learn more about how to build architectures to successfully run AI infrastructures. In most cases, creating a GenAI solution involves…
A guest post by Erik Zandboer In the last episodes we failed an entire datacenter with and without a witness. This time we will be failing a PowerStore array only, and leave all ESXi hosts running. This should trigger an APD (All Paths Down) scenario in the impacted datacenter, and we should see VMware High…
