AI Infrastructure
What storage architecture is best for RAG?
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become the default way to put an organization’s own documents in front of a large language model without retraining ...
Author
Joshua Silvia
AI Infrastructure
How should you store large datasets for AI training?
A training cluster is only as productive as the storage behind it. When accelerators sit idle because the data loader cannot read samples fast enough, or a ...
Cyber resilience
Restore speed is the new RTO
Most recovery time objectives were written for planned maintenance and single-system failures: one database server dies, one volume is restored from last ...
Data sovereignty
Data sovereignty: Who controls your data?
An organization can store every byte of its data in a data center inside its own national borders and still not control that data. If the company operating the ...
Object storage
On-premises object storage: Where teams run into trouble
Most on-premises object storage deployments do not fail at installation. They fail a year later, when the first rebuild saturates the network, when an ...
Object storage
S3-native vs. S3-compatible object storage
Nearly every storage product now advertises an S3 interface, and most applications connect to any of them on the first try. The trouble surfaces later: a ...
Cyber resilience
Building a ransomware recovery clean room
After a ransomware attack, the fastest path to recovery is also the most dangerous one: restore the last backup straight back into the production environment ...