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Author: Dave Raffo

Why Wait for NVIDA GPUs When AMD Can Do the Job?
Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, dissects Lamina CTO Greg Diamos’ step-by-step account of how the startup built its LLM Superstation on AMD Instinct GPUs.
New Block Storage, Guarantees, and Security Highlight Launches
Dave Raffo and Krista Macomber of The Futurum Group share their insights on NetApp Insight 2023, the storage vendor’s first live user show since 2019. To no one’s surprise, NetApp focused on the hot trends of generative AI and ransomware protection.
Nutanix Adds Fast Ransomware Detection and One-Click Recovery to Its Data Lens Analytics Tool
The Futurum Group’s Dave Raffo and Krista Macomber explore Nutanix’s new ransomware recovery features. The HCI vendor built cyber resilience into the Data Lens analytics tool and its Unified Storage.
Confidential Computing Collaboration Facilitates Steps Toward Zero Trust in Public Cloud Environments
Dave Raffo and Steven Dickens of The Futurum Group share insights about the Thales-Intel collaboration and how it can help push customers in highly regulated industries toward a zero trust architecture.
Services From AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform Are Among New Application and Data Workflow Orchestration Plug-Ins
Dave Raffo and Steven Dickens from The Futurum Group analyze the latest Control-M and Helix Control-M plugins from BMC, which focus on public cloud services and mainframe modernization.
In this episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast-Interview Series, the Futurum Group’s Dave Raffo is joined by Greg White of Nutanix and Pritish Nilangi of AMD to talk technologies required to run modern applications in hybrid and multi clouds.
The News Comes Less Than 3 Weeks After the Cisco-Nutanix Partnership Announcement
Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, explores Cisco’s end-of-life announcement of its HyperFlex HCI system, with the news coming less than 3 weeks after Cisco launched a partnership with HCI rival Nutanix.
Both Vendors Will Sell Cisco Servers and Networking Running Nutanix Cloud Platform
Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, looks at the Cisco and Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure partnership, combining Cisco compute and networking services with Nutanix software.
General Availability of A3 Supercomputer Instances Powered by NVIDIA Is Only Part of the Two Companies’ Collaborative Efforts
Dave Raffo, senior analyst at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the AI partnership between Google Cloud and GPU vendor NVIDIA, highlighted by the general availability launch of NVIDIA-powered A3 GPU virtual machines.
FlashBlade Sales, Subscriptions, AI, and Customer Growth All Contribute to Strong Results
Dave Raffo and Camberley Bates, analysts at The Futurum Group, share their insights on Pure Storage’s Q2 fiscal 2024 revenue success, driven by strong FlashBlade sales, AI deals, and subscriptions.
New Fully-Managed File Storage Service Deepens Partnership Between the Companies, Completely Integrates NetApp Technology Into Google Cloud
Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, shares his insights on the latest collaboration between Google Cloud and NetApp Storage. With Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, NetApp now has first-party relationships with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
VMware Turns HCI Mesh and vSAN’s Express Storage Architecture Into vSAN Max, Which Enables Independent Scaling of Storage and Compute
Dave Raffo, Senior Analyst at The Futurum Group, takes an early look at VMware’s vSAN Max, a disaggregated take on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) that enables independent scaling of storage and compute.