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At the FMS 2026 Conference, discussions centered on the AI supercycle and its impact on the IT industry, particularly through HBM and DRAM shortages. Innovations like KV cache offload and MRAM advancements were also highlighted. Despite rising prices, demand for memory remains high, especially for AI applications.

Jason Goldschmidt and Nick Connolly, co-chairs of SNIA's Accelerated Object TWG, discussed the importance of S3 over RDMA for AI processing. SNIAs work addresses industries need for faster data transfer to improve GPU utilization during model training and inferencing.

Xsight Labs talks their latest SDN X2 network switch and E1 DPU chips with the GreyBeards

Once again in 2025, AI was all the news. We are seeing some cracks in the NVIDIA moat but it's early yet. Broadcom VMware moves and DRAM sky-high pricing sort of round out the year for us. Listen to our YE podcast to learn more.

At AIFD7, Articul8 AI presented a unique non-GenAI solution for industry-specific challenges. On our podcast, Dr. Arun Subramaniyan, Founder and CEO, Articul8 discussed how they deploy domain-specific models across verticals. Their technology ingests and maps corporate data plus business processes to help automate and augment those business critical systems of record. Listen to the podcast to learn more...

SNIA's Storage.AI community is focused on addressing AI data challenges through industry standards. Dr. J discussed some of the current SNIA work going on to address AI IO challenges and identified more to come. The standards process is not the only way forward but often it can help industry advance. Listen to the podcast to learn more.

At FMS25 there was lots of discussion on HBM, QLC&SCM SSDs, UAlink/UEC, UCIe for SSDs and liquid cooled m.2 SSDs, listen to the podcast to learn more.

GreyBeards talk Agentic AI with Kamiwaza's CEO, Luke Norris. The world of large enterprise IT is about to undergo another revolution and Kamiwaza AI seems to be leading the charge.

Our YE GreyBeards podcast is often one of our most popular. In this edition. we discuss the impacts AI is having on IT infrastructure and how we see it playing out over the next year.

Cubbit is a Geo-distributed/Geo-fenced S3 compatible object storage where the customer supplies the hardware and Cubbit the software. Presently avalilable in Europe only, it will be coming to the USA in 2025.

Sponsored By: This is the first time we have talked with Hammerspace and Michael Kade (Hammerspace on X), Senior Solutions Architect. We have known about Hammerspace for years now and over the last couple of years, as large AI clusters have come into use, Hammerspace’s popularity has gone through the roof.. Mike’s been benchmarking storage … Continue reading "166: Greybeard talks MLperf Storage benchmark with Michael Kade, Sr. Solutions Architect, Hammerspace"

Gina and I were at VMware Explore and we discuss some of the changes we saw there and what's the latest functionality coming out that matters to the enterprise.

Jim Handy, General Director, Objective Analysis, is our long, time goto guy on SSD and Memory Technologies and we were both at FMS (Future of Memory and Storage – new name/broader focus) 2024 conference last week in Santa Clara, CA. Lots of new SSD technology both on and off the show floor as well as … Continue reading "164: GreyBeards talk FMS24 Wrap-up with Jim Handy, General Dir., Objective Analysis"

Dr J Metz, (@drjmetz, blog) has been on our podcast before mostly in his role as SNIA spokesperson and BoD Chair, but this time he’s here discussing some of his latest work on the Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) (LinkedIN: @ultraethernet, X: @ultraethernet) The UEC is a full stack re-think of what Ethernet could do for … Continue reading "163: GreyBeards talk Ultra Ethernet with Dr J Metz, Chair of UEC steering committee, Chair of SNIA BoD, & Tech. Dir. AMD"

Steffen Hellmold, Director, Cerabyte Inc. is extremely knowledgeable about the storage device business. He has worked for WDC in storage technology and possesses an in-depth understanding of tape and disk storage technology trends. Cerabyte, a German startup, is developing cold storage. Steffen likened Cerabyte storage to ceramic punch cards that dominated IT and pre-IT over … Continue reading "162: GreyBeards talk cold storage with Steffen Hellmold, Dir. Cerabyte Inc."