Name: Select (and Justify) Your Cloud File Storage System: A Conversation with GigaOm
Start: 2023-02-28T18:52:00Z
End: 2023-02-28T18:52:35.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

We believe data-driven organisations shouldn’t have to choose between speed, simplicity, scale, sustainability, or seamless data portability. In the cloud and AI era, these should be foundational elements to every data environment – not points of compromise. That’s why we’re building an entirely new data management approach designed to support next-generation workloads flawlessly. 

As workloads and datasets continue to grow rapidly, organizations face increasing pressure to scale their infrastructure while maintaining flexibility and efficiency. From handling massive amounts of data to managing evolving environments, businesses striving for AI at scale face a unique set of obstacles.

Key to this is understanding that scaling AI is more complex than simply increasing computational power. A successful approach requires a holistic view, encompassing data management, model development, infrastructure optimization, and the agility to adapt to rapidly evolving AI technologies.

In this VB Spotlight, get essential insights from industry leaders on navigating these complexities and future-proofing your AI environment, including:

- The essential considerations when scaling AI capabilities
- The impact of data bottlenecks on AI performance
- How vendor lock-ins and closed environments slow down innovation
- How leading organizations are preparing for the next wave of AI growth
- Why a modern, flexible data platform is critical for overcoming these barriers

Scaling Smart: Future-Proofing Your AI Infrastructure

Join ebb3 and WEKA for this exclusive webinar with AI and virtualisation experts, Kevin Tubbs, Field CTO HPC & AI at WEKA, and Simon Cottrell, IT Director at ebb3. They will share cutting-edge insights into how enterprises can accelerate their AI initiatives, optimise infrastructure, and drive digital
transformation.

The webinar will explore the five essential questions every business must ask to supercharge their AI strategy, and showcase a real-world case studies from leading organisations that have successfully revolutionised their AI deployments. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to unlock the full potential of AI for your organisation. What You Will Learn:

- Unlock AI’s Full Potential: Discover the five critical questions that will help you optimise and scale AI in your enterprise, ensuring you’re fully prepared for AI-driven success.

- Real-World Case Study: Hear from a leading enterprise’s journey and how they optimised AI workloads for impactful business results.

- Expert Guidance: Receive expert advice from Weka and ebb3 on enhancing your infrastructure for advanced AI workloads, delivering a more efficient and scalable solution.

- Boost Performance &amp; Scalability: Learn how to build a future-proof AI infrastructure, optimised for high performance and scalability across multiple environments.

- Maximise AI ROI: Understand how to leverage your existing data and technology investments to generate measurable outcomes and improve ROI on AI projects.

- Secure &amp; Compliant AI: Explore best practices for deploying AI solutions that maintain stringent security and compliance across multi-cloud and hybrid
environments.

Supercharge Your AI Strategy: Key Insights from Industry Leaders

Join us for a look at the key insights from our second annual Global Trends in AI report. We’ll explore the rapid rise of AI adoption, the shift toward Generative AI, and the challenges of scaling AI projects due to legacy data infrastructures. Learn how leading organizations are overcoming GPU shortages, optimising performance, and addressing sustainability concerns while driving innovation. Get actionable strategies for navigating the evolving AI landscape in 2024 and beyond.

2024 AI Trends: Scaling Innovation, Generative AI, and Infrastructure Challenges

Get the CTO perspective on revolutionary advancements in GPU cloud infrastructure. 

Watch our exclusive webinar featuring CTOs from Applied Digital, HighFens, and WEKA as they explore how to meet the demands of tomorrow’s AI workloads.

This discussion will explore cutting-edge strategies and technologies designed to enhance GPU cloud efficiency, optimise data pipelines for high-performance computing (HPC), and achieve significant cost savings.

Watch the webinar for insights on:

Maximising GPU Utilisation: Learn how to revolutionise hardware efficiency and maximise ROI.

Overcoming Data Challenges: Discover ways to streamline data pipelines for generative AI and HPC applications.

Future-Proofing Infrastructure: Explore how industry leaders are building solutions for the AI workloads of today and tomorrow.

Supercharging GPU Cloud for AI Workloads

Discover the keys to scaling your AI initiatives in the cloud with unmatched efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Watch our OnDemand session with AI Accelerator Institute to explore Cloud first AI/ML workloads, how to profile the gaps in legacy architectures, and what modern training and inference require.

3 key takeaways from our session include:

- Mastering your costs: Learn how the right storage choices can drastically reduce your AI and ML operational costs.
- Tackling cloud challenges: Discover proven strategies to navigate common cloud pitfalls and sidestep unexpected expenses.
- How to boost your performance: Understand how a cutting-edge data platform can ensure your AI tasks perform at their peak, handling even the most demanding requirements.

Data architectures to accelerate your cloud-based AI Initiatives

Today, organisations face significant challenges as they scale demanding AI operations, often grappling with siloed initiatives, disparate infrastructure, and inefficient legacy storage systems that inflate costs and reduce efficiency.

Join experts from WEKA and NVIDIA as they discuss the latest AI trends and share strategies to streamline your infrastructure for generative AI success.

Learn how to minimise your footprint, reduce power usage, and cut costs, all while boosting AI performance to meet the increasing demands of enterprise environments.

Join this webinar for insights on:

- Current trends in AI and a look towards the future.
- The key challenges companies are facing in AI accessibility, affordability, and sustainability amidst the limitations of legacy storage architecture.
- How WEKA and NVIDIA’s partnership is positioned to continue transforming industries by providing exceptional performance, scalability, and sustainability while optimising the workloads that drive AI.

WEKA x Nvidia: A Quantum Leap in Enterprise AI Performance

This fireside chat recorded at ISC 2024 in Hamburg discusses the collaboration between WEKA and Stability AI that has revolutionised large language model deployment on AWS. Learn about the innovative strategies driving next-gen AI applications while ensuring safety controls. We will discuss how Stability AI enables fine-tuning of pre-trained models with proprietary datasets securely. Discover how WEKA has helped Stability slash storage costs by 95%, significantly increase GPU utilisation, and eliminate bottlenecks to optimise AI workflows for unprecedented efficiency.

Accelerating Large Language Models with WEKA and Stability AI - ISC '24

In this webinar, Mike Bloom will take us through storage workload patterns in AI /ML as observed in a production setting, different types of AI models measured on a per workload basis and individual parts of the lifecycle of AI/ML., Through these three points of view, key bottlenecks and design criteria are discussed to provide success criteria for a robust storage system for modern AI/ML applications.

Level Up Your Generative AI Model Development

Discover how NexGen Cloud is leveraging WEKA to optimize GPUs and deliver fast, sustainable, and accessible AI to their customers.

In this webinar, Cory Hawkvelt of NexGen and Mike Bloom of WEKA will discuss the rise of the GPU Cloud, democratizing the next wave of innovation, and share insights on:

- How NexGen is tackling the complexities of managing and scaling GPU Cloud services.

- How WEKA eliminates the trade-off between performance and cost in the GPU Cloud market.

- Strategies to address the environmental impact of AI with sustainable infrastructure.

WEKA x NexGen Cloud: The Future of GPU Cloud

Get all the benefits of the WEKA Data Platform in a validated, turnkey data platform appliance certified for NVIDIA DGX Superpod on NVIDIA DGX H100 Systems. Starting with a minimum configuration of 8 nodes, WEKApod scales to hundreds of nodes and seamlessly integrates with NVIDIA Base Command™ Manager for centralized observability, including WEKA Data Platform performance metrics, and seamlessly integrates with Run.ai and other orchestration tools.

WEKA x Nvidia: Powering AI Workloads of the Future Together

Elevate Your Game and Learn How Parliament + WEKA Joined Forces for a Super Bowl-Winning Formula in Post-Production

Key Takeaways:

- Global Collaboration: Discover how Parliament’s cloud-first strategy conquers creative boundaries on the global stage.

- WEKA’s MVP Role: Explore the game-changing storage solution that ensures high-performance without the Super Bowl-sized price tag.

- Creative Touchdowns: Learn the playbook for balancing high-quality work with the demands of the big leagues and how the right infrastructure makes the score.

Why Attend:

- Gain strategic insights into cloud optimization for post-production profitability.

- Unlock the secrets of WEKA’s transformative impact on data management.

Unlock the Super Secrets of Super Bowl Success in Post-Production

Artificial intelligence offers the potential to boost productivity and solve key business problems. But for many organizations, effective data management remains a top barrier to successful AI adoption and use.

In this one-hour webinar, Shimon Ben-David of WEKA and Allen Clingerman of Dell Technologies will provide insights on how to:

- Understand AI data-management challenges, especially for generative AI.
- Develop effective strategies for addressing those challenges.
- Explore alternatives for creating sustainable, scalable AI infrastructure.

AI Unleashed: Tackle Data Management Hurdles for Success

Featuring WEKA & Converge Technologies.

Migrating to the cloud is just first step in the cloud journey, but it doesn’t end once you get there... 23andMe adopted a cloud-first strategy over two years ago, and Arnold de Leon from 23andMe will dive into their key learnings including:

- Overcoming performance challenges in the cloud 
- Enabling cost-effective cloud solutions for low-latency, data-intensive applications that involve extensive data sharing
- Driving innovation and rapidly innovating with the flexibility the cloud offers. 

Reserve your spot to learn tips and tricks to make your next-gen workload a success!

Unlock Cloud Success with 23andMe

Demand for cloud storage has surged due to global content production, sharing, streaming, and distribution. However, cloud adoption comes with financial and environmental costs. Access and storage costs are not always transparent or predictable while some projections suggest that new data centres alone could contribute 14% of global CO2 emissions by 2040. This session will explore innovative approaches to managing cloud storage and production that, through the shift from a capex to opex cost model and making remote and collaborative working a viable option, can unlock opportunities for smaller independent studios while limiting the industry’s carbon footprint.

Panelists
Barbara Murphy, Vice President - Cloud Strategy - WEKA

Tom Dunning, CEO & Founder - Ad Signal

Rosie Pongracz, Chief Marketing Officer - Storj

Dom Robinson, Founder - Greening of Streaming

Recorded at IBC on 15th September 2024. All sessions can be found here: https://www.ibc.org/ce-sessions/896.tag

IBC Panel Discussion: Innovations in Cloud Storage and Production

AI/ML is rapidly transforming businesses across industries. But for many organizations, the journey to enterprise-scale AI adoption is still in its early stages. Join us for a discussion and hear about some of the findings from a new global survey from S&P Global Market Intelligence of more than 1,500 AI decision makers.

This chat will explore the latest trends in AI/ML, including:

- The shift from cost-saving to revenue-driving AI projects
- The top technical inhibitors to AI/ML adoption
- How to leverage a hybrid approach to deployment
- The impact of AI/ML on corporate sustainability
- How to build a modern data architecture for AI

How to Accelerate Your AI/ML Journey (And achieve your sustainability goals)

We're sure that you get lots of invites to virtual events, however, if running innovative AI projects at scale is your thing, our "Running Enterprise AI at Scale: Identifying & Overcoming Obstacles" fireside chat will be worth your while.

WEKA will welcome Patrick Bangert, VP of AI at Samsung SDS, who uses AI at scale to breakthroughs in technological innovation, R&D, preventive healthcare, and early detection of cancer and heart disease.

Watch on-demand and learn actionable insights to establish a sophisticated AI practice in your organisation.

Running Enterprise AI at Scale: Identifying & Overcoming Obstacles

Join experts from Nvidia, Run:ai and WEKA for this live webinar where we will be discussing Generative AI, how to maximise your full-scale AI potential and accelerate the delivery of your AI innovation.

Optimising Infrastructure for Generative AI

The future is the cloud and WEKA wants to help you get there. Listen in as WEKA’s Head of Cloud Enablement, Eyal David discusses why the cloud is the place to invest and how easy WEKA can integrate into existing systems.

Cloudy with a Chance of WEKA [Podcast]

File storage is a critical component of every cloud strategy, and enterprises often prefer it over block and object storage, for big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and collaboration.

Howard Holton of GigaOm Research and Phil Curran, Cloud Strategist at WEKA discussed key criteria in evaluating file-based cloud storage solutions. Takeaways include:

- An overview of the current state of the market for cloud file systems
- Best fit use cases for cloud-based file storage
- Actionable selection criteria for your next cloud deployment

This webinar will provide the critical information you need to select the right cloud file system to ensure success in running your next-generation workloads in the cloud.

Select (and Justify) Your Cloud File Storage System: A Conversation with GigaOm

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