"One way of viewing efforts by storage suppliers to move into data management over the past couple of years is that storage technology is emerging from the backroom and wants to be at the centre of efforts to gain value from data for artificial intelligence (AI) - and more widely across the business. Nearly all the storage array makers now have a data management play, going almost as far as subsuming their entire offer underneath it."
"Dell's data management push is based around Dell AI Factory, which comprises a portfolio of infrastructure and services for AI. Core to this, and built on Dell storage, is the Data Lakehouse, which can combine metadata in stored data for AI with additional data ingested from other sources. Meanwhile, Dell also has Project Lightning, a parallel file system. It is in an early project phase and aims to be a next-generation file system for its scale-out unstructured data storage."
"So, why are array suppliers making such an effort to widen their offering out to data management? There are a range of responses to this question, from those who put data and fleet management at the core, to those who put the spin on utility for AI workloads. Also, however, there's a contradiction between suppliers and customers that often underlies the situation."
Storage-array suppliers are expanding offerings into data management to position storage at the centre of extracting value from data, especially for AI and broader business use. Vendors present data and fleet management or utility for AI workloads as primary rationales, while a contradiction often exists between supplier aims and customer needs. Dell promotes Dell AI Factory, a Data Lakehouse combining stored metadata with ingested sources, Project Lightning as a next-generation parallel file system, and Apex as-a-service for unified pay-as-you-go access. Hitachi Vantara offers Virtual Storage Platform One (VSP One) to provide a software-defined storage architecture and a common data plane across block, file and object storage and hybrid multicloud environments.
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