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What Quant Trading Firms Need in the Race for Alpha

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What Quant Trading Firms Need in the Race for Alpha by Pure Storage Blog Over the past decade, quantitative trading (quant trading) strategies have been subject to increasing scrutiny regarding their ability to seek, discover, and retain alpha, the measure of an investment’s performance relative to a benchmark.

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Everbridge’s Best in Resilience™ Study Results

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Our Best in Resilience Certification utilizes a proprietary Critical Event Management (CEM) Standards Framework to provide organizations with the industry’s first end-to-end methodology for evaluating and benchmarking resilience. They take action through training (97.7%), tabletop exercises (90.9%), and software deployment/use (81.8%).

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

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To determine the actual difference in speed, you’ll need to download benchmarking tools. Drive manufacturers, such as Crucial, Samsung, Intel, and SanDisk (Western Digital), provide benchmarking tools that enable you to test drive speeds. How to Benchmark SSD vs. HDD. Storage devices are benchmarked using read and write actions.

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TPUs vs. GPUs: What’s the Difference?

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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. Benchmarks comparing TPUs and GPUs in machine learning tasks have shown that TPUs often outperform GPUs in terms of training speed and efficiency.

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How to Get Started with CrystalDiskMark on a Mac

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CrystalDiskMark is an IT industry-wide recognized tool for benchmarking storage devices. CrystalDiskMark is a benchmarking tool for storage devices. CrystalDiskMark can still benchmark a Mac PC for comparisons against other devices, but it’s best used as a diagnostic and analysis tool for Macs. What Is CrystalDiskMark?CrystalDiskMark

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

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The performance advantage of NVMe/TCP over iSCSI was clear in recent benchmark testing. To dive deeper into NVMe/TCP for FlashArray, including testing results, jump into the NVME/TCP deep-dive blog. Read our detailed how-to blog for self-service upgrades in Pure1. all FlashArray R3 customers can now get NVMe/TCP.

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Achieve Energy Savings with Pure1

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Peak metrics are based on Pure1’s benchmarks representing the upper boundary of what your hardware could draw, whereas the actual power metric represents your current power draw. Like the peak metrics, these metrics are also based on Pure’s hardware benchmarks representing an average power draw (again, heat is calculated using power).