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2 days ago | 
buff.ly | Alastair Cooke
Space (the final frontier) is sending vast amounts of data back to Earth as we study both our planet and the rest of the universe from orbit. The European Space Agency (ESA) operates hundreds of satellites and receives petabytes of streaming data for analysis and retention, a truly planet-scale data storage problem.
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2 days ago | 
techstrong.it | Alastair Cooke
Space (the final frontier) is sending vast amounts of data back to Earth as we study both our planet and the rest of the universe from orbit. The European Space Agency (ESA) operates hundreds of satellites and receives petabytes of streaming data for analysis and retention, a truly planet-scale data storage problem.
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1 week ago | 
futurumgroup.com | Alastair Cooke
Analyst(s): Alastair CookePublication Date: June 20, 2025What is Covered in this Article:Phison’s history of building SSDs with custom controllers for special usesThe new challenges of AI in data centres, particularly data storage and transfer challengesThe breadth and depth of the Phison Pascari Enterprise SSD rangeThe Event – Major Themes & Vendor Moves: AI Infrastructure Field Day is a semiannual, invitation-only event held in Santa Clara, organized by Tech Field Day.
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1 week ago | 
techstrong.ai | Alastair Cooke
The value of generative AI lies in its integration into business applications. Ultimately, AI experimentation must lead to production deployment. The big difference in security is that production deployment vastly increases the attack surface and criticality of the AI application.
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1 week ago | 
buff.ly | Alastair Cooke
The value of generative AI lies in its integration into business applications. Ultimately, AI experimentation must lead to production deployment. The big difference in security is that production deployment vastly increases the attack surface and criticality of the AI application.
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1 week ago | 
techstrong.ai | Alastair Cooke
Generative AI, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), has the potential to bring about significant change to many organizations; however, most still struggle to deploy the necessary infrastructure and applications to extract value from AI. Whether it is selecting the appropriate LLM and preparing corporate data for a RAG solution, or designing the storage and networking to keep GPUs fed with data, building infrastructure and applications for AI is a complex task.
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1 week ago | 
buff.ly | Alastair Cooke
Generative AI, powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), has the potential to bring about significant change to many organizations; however, most still struggle to deploy the necessary infrastructure and applications to extract value from AI. Whether it is selecting the appropriate LLM and preparing corporate data for a RAG solution, or designing the storage and networking to keep GPUs fed with data, building infrastructure and applications for AI is a complex task.
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1 week ago | 
techfieldday.com | Alastair Cooke
AI demands specialized data center designs due to its unique hardware utilization and networking needs, which require a new type of infrastructure. This Tech Field Day Podcast episode features Denise Donohue, Karen Lopez, Lino Telera, and Alastair Cooke. Network design has been a consistent part of the AI infrastructure discussions at Tech Field Day events. The need for a dedicated network to interconnect GPUs differentiates AI training and fine-tuning networks from general-purpose computing.
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2 weeks ago | 
techstrong.ai | Alastair Cooke
Chat-based AI, like ChatGPT, is a powerful tool—like having a very knowledgeable friend who always has the answers to general questions. The magic really happens when you add custom and private information to the AI, then you have access to great general knowledge mixed with very specific knowledge of your business. The process of fine-tuning a foundation model, or building Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), allows your data to be added to a general-purpose AI model.
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2 weeks ago | 
buff.ly | Alastair Cooke
Chat-based AI, like ChatGPT, is a powerful tool—like having a very knowledgeable friend who always has the answers to general questions. The magic really happens when you add custom and private information to the AI, then you have access to great general knowledge mixed with very specific knowledge of your business. The process of fine-tuning a foundation model, or building Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), allows your data to be added to a general-purpose AI model.
