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TPUs vs. GPUs: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

by Pure Storage Blog Processing units are essential parts of a computer system. In this blog, we’ll compare TPUs versus GPUs in terms of their performance, uses, and trends. TPUs are specialized processors designed by Google for AI applications built with TensorFlow. TPUs vs. GPUs: What’s the Difference? What Is a TPU?

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SSD vs. HDD Speeds: What’s the Difference?

Pure Storage

Even with the higher speed capacity, an SSD has its disadvantages over an HDD, depending on your application. To determine the actual difference in speed, you’ll need to download benchmarking tools. How to Benchmark SSD vs. HDD. Storage devices are benchmarked using read and write actions. Does SSD Read Faster than HDD?

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Pure Announces NVMe/TCP, Another Step Towards the Cloud Operating Model

Pure Storage

35% Better Performance than iSCSI for Demanding Workloads NVMe/TCP gets around the bottlenecks that made iSCSI less than ideal for performance intensive applications, and unlike iSCSI, NVMe protocol was designed for flash media instead of spinning media. The performance advantage of NVMe/TCP over iSCSI was clear in recent benchmark testing.

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How to Get Started with CrystalDiskMark on a Mac

Pure Storage

CrystalDiskMark is an IT industry-wide recognized tool for benchmarking storage devices. CrystalDiskMark is a benchmarking tool for storage devices. It’s currently a Windows-only application. Because CrystalDiskMark isn’t a native macOS application, Rosetta 2 can’t be used for that either. What Is CrystalDiskMark?CrystalDiskMark

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Debug State Capture for Traditional Infrastructure & Apps by Justyn Roberts

PagerDuty

In our previous blogs on Capturing Application State and using Ephemeral Containers for Debugging Kubernetes , we discussed the value of being able to deploy specific tools to gather diagnostics for later analysis, while also providing the responder to the incident the means to resolve infrastructure or application issues.

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Hot Work: More than Welding, Cutting, and Burning

National Fire Protection Association

NFPA Senior Chemical Engineer Matthew Barker also contributed to this blog. This can occur through direct application with flames or sparks from welding, cutting, and burning. Ignition can also occur through indirect application where heat is radiated through the air or conducted through metal surfaces to fuel sources nearby.

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6 Signs Your Business Needs a vCIO

NexusTek

Consulting with a vCIO helps SMBs to determine which applications are suitable for a “lift and shift” migration, which may need refactoring or rewriting before migration, and which may be best-left on-premises. An informed assessment and migration roadmap make the process easier, faster, and less prone to time-consuming errors.