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  • Back to fundamental – PowerFlex Lifecycle Management

    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…

  • Leverage PowerScale with GPU Direct Storage  – Create a data loader with NVIDIA DALI

    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…

  • Model Training Dell Validated Design

    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.…

  • GVU – APEX Cloud Platform for Microsoft Azure launch discussion/reaction video

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Is the VCTA-DCV certification worth it?

    Getting a certification for the sake of getting one is hardly worth it. But if the process can help boost your confidence and better understand widely used fundamental technologies, it’s worth its weight in gold. Thankfully as a Dell EMC employee, I had the opportunity to take the VMware Certified…

  • Why GPUs for AI workloads?

    There are many different ways to arrive at an answer and when discussing different processing technologies it really boils down to what you need to know, how you ask the question, and who can give you the answer you need the fastest (or at the lowest cost). If you need…