AI Needs an NVMe-Optimized File System

Analytics is evolving from big data, machine learning to artificial intelligence. Machine learning is the analysis of data at rest, artificial intelligence (AI) is the analysis of data in real-time. Machine learning is predictive; AI is cognitive. The requirements of a storage infrastructure supporting an AI environment are high bandwidth, low latency, elasticity in response to workload demands, and rapid response to multiple parallel analytic queries. Traditionally, most AI initiatives start as skunkworks projects often hosted in the cloud.