Born from AI: Accelerating Time to Insight

The more data an organization can collect, analyze and interpret the fastest wins – period. However, many organizations are not selective about the types of data they squeeze through these processes. One study found that 73 percent of data collected by organizations merely accumulate dust because they have absolutely no idea what to do with it or how to use it.

In addition, there are enterprises and institutions that can’t successfully manage data because their legacy compute and storage architectures can’t keep up with the huge volumes of data. These issues are increasingly problematic for organizations in the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

AI and its supporting computing models, Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL), herald one of the most significant technological advancements in human history. More and more, AI is being used as an essential tool for business and research by enterprises, institutions and organizations alike in areas including finance, rich media, simulation, meteorology, life sciences, oil and gas, academia and higher education, governmental agencies, government contractors and HPC.

AI allows for indispensable insights into enormous data sets at exceptional speed and precision. However, these three advanced algorithmic technologies are placing exigent burdens on older IT infrastructures, which find it strenuous to keep pace.

Bottlenecking has become a significant issue for outdated IT infrastructures as storage fabrics and user networks contend over internal server resources. They key issue is that many legacy compute and storage architectures don’t possess the capacity needed for an AI-enabled deployment.

Storage is Paramount with AI-Enabled Data Infrastructures

If data analytics and AI are figurative soulmates, then storage is the connection that brings them together. Makes sense, right?

However, there are some who think that data will flow smoother by adding more graphics processing units (GPUs) to power your AI, ML and DL-enabled system. The only major flaw with that assertion is – everything. This is computer science and, like any science, the only place where the rules change is in fiction. Put a different way, if something is larger than the space one wishes to place it in, all the power in the world won’t fix the issue.

In the case of GPU-based systems, this translates to a severely diminished I/O performance and idle GPU cycles, which is unsustainable. Choosing the perfect platform is crucial to fully gain an advantage from AI and big data and ultimately achieving actionable results that an organization can benefit from.

If storage systems deliver performance to match the scale of data provided by AI and ML, AI-enabled data systems deliver near real-time search performance. Just imagine how much your organization or enterprise would benefit from such real-time data analytics.

What It Takes to Create a Scalable Data Storage System

Now that the problem has been addressed, what solutions exist? With twenty-five years of proven experience helping customers deal with complex data issues, RAID Incorporated has developed a tried and proven six-step holistic process. With this process, we deliver custom tailored high-performance storage solutions that successfully unleash the true power of your AI-enabled data center.

RAID Inc.’s X-AI Accelerated, Any-Scale (AI) Solutions break new ground for AI and DL, providing unmatched flexibility for your organization’s AI needs. Engineered from the ground-up for the AI-enabled data center, X-AI Solutions are optimized for ingest, training, data transformations, replication, metadata and small data transfers.

RAID Inc. offers flexibility in platform choice with the all-flash NVMe X2-AI/X4-AI or the X5-AI, a hybrid flash and hard drive storage platform which leverages parallel access to flash and deeply expandable HDD storage. The X-AI storage platform supports a scale-out model with solutions starting at a few TBs yet scalable to 10s of PBs.

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