Grey Beards on Systems

At the FMS 2026 Conference, discussions centered on the AI supercycle and its impact on the IT industry, particularly through HBM and DRAM shortages. Innovations like KV cache offload and MRAM advancements were also highlighted. Despite rising prices, demand for memory remains high, especially for AI applications.

Jason Goldschmidt and Nick Connolly, co-chairs of SNIA's Accelerated Object TWG, discussed the importance of S3 over RDMA for AI processing. SNIAs work addresses industries need for faster data transfer to improve GPU utilization during model training and inferencing.

Xsight Labs talks their latest SDN X2 network switch and E1 DPU chips with the GreyBeards

Once again in 2025, AI was all the news. We are seeing some cracks in the NVIDIA moat but it's early yet. Broadcom VMware moves and DRAM sky-high pricing sort of round out the year for us. Listen to our YE podcast to learn more.

At AIFD7, Articul8 AI presented a unique non-GenAI solution for industry-specific challenges. On our podcast, Dr. Arun Subramaniyan, Founder and CEO, Articul8 discussed how they deploy domain-specific models across verticals. Their technology ingests and maps corporate data plus business processes to help automate and augment those business critical systems of record. Listen to the podcast to learn more...

SNIA's Storage.AI community is focused on addressing AI data challenges through industry standards. Dr. J discussed some of the current SNIA work going on to address AI IO challenges and identified more to come. The standards process is not the only way forward but often it can help industry advance. Listen to the podcast to learn more.

At FMS25 there was lots of discussion on HBM, QLC&SCM SSDs, UAlink/UEC, UCIe for SSDs and liquid cooled m.2 SSDs, listen to the podcast to learn more.

GreyBeards talk Agentic AI with Kamiwaza's CEO, Luke Norris. The world of large enterprise IT is about to undergo another revolution and Kamiwaza AI seems to be leading the charge.

Our YE GreyBeards podcast is often one of our most popular. In this edition. we discuss the impacts AI is having on IT infrastructure and how we see it playing out over the next year.

Cubbit is a Geo-distributed/Geo-fenced S3 compatible object storage where the customer supplies the hardware and Cubbit the software. Presently avalilable in Europe only, it will be coming to the USA in 2025.