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Back to fundamental – PowerFlex Lifecycle Management
When evaluating a product, customers typically have a list of evaluation criteria. Among these, support and software upgrades are crucial. The quality of support and the ease of upgrading the software significantly influence the likelihood of converting potential customers into loyal ones. In most of the sales cycles or deployment…
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Leverage PowerScale with GPU Direct Storage – Create a data loader with NVIDIA DALI
Introduction In our journey to optimize high-performance computing environments, we’ve previously explored PowerScale multipath driver testing and its impact on performance. Now, we’re taking the next exciting step: integrating NVIDIA GPU Direct Storage (GDS) with Dell PowerScale using NFS over RDMA. This is a powerful combination to help with throughput…
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Model Training Dell Validated Design
Introduction When it comes to LLMs, there may be fundamental question that everyone looking to leverage foundational models need to answer: should I train my model, or should I customize an existing model? There can be strong arguments for either. In a previous post we covered some popular customization approaches.…
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GVU – APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure launch discussion/reaction video
Keeping the excitement going. Join Ben and myself as we run through some of the many blog posts, videos, industry articles etc. talking about the APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure. Here are the links to the everything we talked about. Check them all out. GVU – In Conversation with…Ash…
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Dynamic AppsON – VxRail using PowerStore
Dynamic AppsOn is the name for a VxRail dynamic node cluster using PowerStore as its primary storage. VxRail dyanmic node is a compute only node with no vSAN. Storage for the dynamic node is from either a VMware vSAN HCI Mesh or a Dell external storage array, for example…
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VxRail & PowerFlex – When choose one over the other?
The breadth of the Dell Technologies Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) portfolio offers choice to customers, but also sometimes causes the question of when to choose one technology over the other. In this blog post I want to take a deeper look into VxRail and PowerFlex to come up with some…
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Data Science Part 2: Training Deep Learning Models with PowerEdge
Are you smarter than an AI? Well, it is widely agreed upon that AI intelligence is currently on par with that of adult humans. This means that we and machines perform comparably on tasks that require skills like logical reasoning, problem-solving, and abstract thinking. This long-awaited achievement for AI development…
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As-a-Service Meets Cyber Recovery
The growth of ransomware landscape is continuing to grow each year. Much like the viruses that affect humans, ransomware viruses continue to evolve and become harder to detect and deter. According to Cyber Management Alliance for the year 2022, “Further, this year has already seen the emergence of many new…
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NSX-T on Brownfield VxRail in 6 Minutes…… (Part 1 Geneve Overlay)
A VxRail customer of mine recently asked the question whether they could deploy NSX-T on an existing brownfield cluster deployment. The system is in production and running workload. There was no Day 0 requirement for NSX-T at time of deployment but requirements have changed in the interim. My stance normally…
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APEX Backup Services for Nutanix AHV Workloads (In under 5 mins!)
APEX Backup Services is a cloud-based data protection solution that ensures predictable, controllable costs without increasing complexity. It deploys in minutes and provides unlimited on-demand scaling to ensure growing data volumes are always protected. A web-based experience provides centralized visibility and management across workloads and users, ensuring your data is…
