#AI continues to move up the stack from drives to racks to whole storage arrays. @Hitachi is expected to make an AI announcement this winter and recently hired away an @IBMWatson leader.
#Storagetechnology, if industry visionaries are correct, will enable magical advancements in #analytics, #bigdata, and the #InternetofThings—but there's another story to tell by going the other direction to see what these applications can do for the storage.
It's not a one-way street. Storage arrays typically grow bigger and faster on a fairly consistent basis, but in the past few years they've also started growing smarter.
There is plenty of precedent. There has long been intelligence inside individual drives. More recently, machine learning started coming to data center racks, not unlike the smart refrigerators found at Best Buy. Storage management concepts such as deduplication and tiered backup are also constantly becoming more automated.
SEE: IT leader's guide to the future of artificial intelligence (Tech Pro Research)
The storage industry will get an artificial intelligence jolt from Hitachi Vantara in the next few months. Vantara is a recent merger of the Japanese conglomerate's storage, analytics, and IoT divisions, and is unique compared to Dell-EMC, HP, and IBM because of its focus on industrial competitors such as General Electric (from where Vantara recently poached its new chief strategy officer). More compelling, though, is Vantara's other new hire—former IBM Watson vice president John Murphy.
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/hitachi-preparing-ai-for-enterprise-storage/
No comments:
Post a Comment