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Alastair has made a twenty-year career out of helping people understand complex IT infrastructure and how to build solutions that fulfill business needs. Much of his career has included teaching official training courses for vendors, including HPE, VMware, and AWS.

Alastair has written hundreds of analyst articles and papers exploring products and topics around on-premises infrastructure and virtualization and getting the most out of public cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Alastair has also been involved in community-driven, practitioner-led education through the vBrownBag podcast and the vBrownBag TechTalks.

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New to You, Phison Pascari Enterprise SSD Range for Hardcore AI Workloads
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New to You, Phison Pascari Enterprise SSD Range for Hardcore AI Workloads

Phison’s Pascari Enterprise SSDs Are Available Through Newegg and Offer a Range of Performance and Endurance Characteristics for Different Workloads
Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day Event Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on how the Phison Pascari Enterprise SSD range can help organizations accommodate on-premises AI data challenges in a cost-effective and high-performance manner.
Phison aiDAPTIV+ is Cost-Effective With Large Models to Enable Generative AI
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Phison aiDAPTIV+ is Cost-Effective With Large Models to Enable Generative AI

Phison Custom SSD Firmware Coupled With Software Drivers Allows Pytorch Applications To Use More Than the GPU RAM for Model and Data
Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day Event Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on the Phison aiDAPTIV+ platform presented at AI Infrastructure Field Day. Phison enables the use of unmodified generative AI models on lower-cost GPUs than are typically required, making them cost-effective with large models.
Make an AI-Ready Data Center With Help From Juniper
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Make an AI-Ready Data Center With Help From Juniper

Juniper Networks Showed AI Network Design, Implementation, and Operation at AI Infrastructure Field Day
Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day Event Lead at Futurum, shares his insights on the Juniper Networks presentation at AI Infrastructure Field Day. Intent-based design and deployment using Apstra delivers 800 GB Ethernet for GPUs, storage, and front-end access, making an AI-ready Data Center.
Build Your Own AI Infrastructure Using Google Cloud
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Build Your Own AI Infrastructure Using Google Cloud

Google Cloud Offers Options to Build Customized Infrastructure for Your Generative AI Applications in Their Locations
Futurum’s Alastair Cooke examines building customized infrastructure for generative AI applications using the Google Cloud Platform, which offers numerous options ranging from managed services to Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
Lightbend Becomes Akka and Akka V3 Enables Resilient Geo-Distributed Applications
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Lightbend Becomes Akka and Akka V3 Enables Resilient Geo-Distributed Applications

Platform as a Service for Resilient Geo-Distributed Applications, Akka 3 Release, and Lightbend Trading as Akka
Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day Event Lead at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on releasing version 3 of the Akka framework and rebranding Lightbend as Akka. Resilient geo-distributed applications have never been easier to build and operate.
Tabnine Integrates AI Agents Into the Entire Software Development Life Cycle
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Tabnine Integrates AI Agents Into the Entire Software Development Life Cycle

Competing With Microsoft Copilot AI, Tabnine Covers More of the Software Development Life Cycle and Simplifies the Role of a Software Engineer
Alastair Cooke, Tech Field Day event lead at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Tabnine’s comprehensive vision of AI for the software development life cycle.
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