Manage Unstructured Data: Cost, Risk, and Value with Datadobi
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on how customers with large estates of unstructured data can use Datadobi’s StorageMap to gain a better return on the cost of storing everything on scale-out NAS.
Leostream Delivers Multi-Vendor Virtual Desktops from a Hybrid Cloud
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the importance of a connection broker, such as Leostream, to provide multi-vendor virtual desktops in a multi-cloud enterprise.
Dell Delivers Low-Cost LLM Updates by Retrieval Augmented Generation
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on working with Dell to demonstrate that low-cost LLM updates can be delivered using retrieval-augmented generation on servers with modest GPUs.
The VAST Data Platform Delivers for AI Pipelines at AI Field Day
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the value of the VAST Data platform for AI pipelines. VAST Data announced partnerships with NVIDIA and Supermicro with new AI capabilities.
AI Field Day: Nature Fresh Farms Profits by Machine Learning, Not LLMs
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on how Nature Fresh Farms has boosted productivity using machine learning. More strawberries per square meter through computer science and math, no LLMs required.
AI Field Day: Solidigm Storage Options for AI Training
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the Solidigm and Supermicro presentation at AI Field Day. Supermicro showed products reinforcing the range of Solidigm storage options for AI pipeline stages.
Deciding When to Use Intel Xeon CPUs for AI Inference, AI Field Day
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on Intel’s presentation at AI Field Day 4, discussing when to use CPUs rather than GPUs for AI inference.
Hammerspace Shows Storage Acceleration for AI Training at AI Field Day
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on how Hammerspace is enabling storage acceleration for AI training with the Hyperscale NAS product and its ability to accelerate older scale-out NAS.
At AI Field Day, Qlik Shows AI-Based Analysis Added to Its Platform
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the new AI-based analysis features of the Qlik data analytics platform, and its conversational future using generative AI.
VMware Private AI at AI Field Day: CPUs If You Can, GPUs If You Must
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on how VMware Private AI allows companies to keep their AI data on-premises and gain insights without the excessive cost of GPUs that are often idle.
Gemma and Building Your Own LLM AI – Google Cloud AI at AI Field Day 4
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the Google Cloud presentation at AI Field Day. Google showed the Gemma LLM and talked about how LLMs are built and used on Google Cloud.
HPE GreenLake Is Better Than I Remember
Alastair Cooke, CTO Advisor at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on how HPE has developed the GreenLake portfolio to deliver a variety of hybrid cloud infrastructure as a service offerings.
