IT Teams Struggle with Cloud Operations, Says NetApp Report

Cloud operations remains a struggle for IT teams, according to the State of CloudOps 2023 report from NetApp (https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/86553-report-2023-state-of-cloud-ops.pdf), with security and compliance and cost management concerns listed as the top challenges.

Other challenges, according to respondents, include:

• Multi-cloud and/or hybrid cloud infrastructure
• Operational efficiency
• Managing containers and/or Kubernetes
• Lack of cloud operations expertise and resources

Additional findings from the report show that:

• Only 33 percent of those surveyed are "very confident" in their ability to operate a public cloud environment.
• Ninety-five percent have automated cloud operations, while 15 percent say they have a "significant" level of automation.
• Eighty-two percent say automation is "critical" or "very valuable" for optimizing cloud operations and ROI.
• Eighty-eight percent plan to increase cloud operations automation in 2023.

Check out the full report (https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/86553-report-2023-state-of-cloud-ops.pdf) for more information about the evolving role of CloudOps.

NVIDIA Announces Large Memory AI Supercomputer

NVIDIA has announced the DGX GH200 (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/dgx-gh200/), a 100-terabyte GPU memory system built to power giant AI workloads. According to the company, the DGX GH20 is "the first supercomputer to break the 100-terabyte barrier for memory accessible to GPUs over NVLink."

"NVIDIA DGX GH200 is the only AI supercomputer that offers a massive shared memory space of 144TB across 256 NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchips (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/grace-hopper-superchip/), providing developers with nearly 500X more memory to build giant models," the website states.

Additionally, the system, which will be available at the end of 2023, "significantly improves the performance of AI and HPC applications bottlenecked by GPU memory size," the announcement says (https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/announcing-nvidia-dgx-gh200-first-100-terabyte-gpu-memory-system/).

PostgreSQL 16 Beta Now Available

The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has announced that the first beta release of PostgreSQL 16 is now available for download and testing (https://www.postgresql.org/download/).

PostgreSQL 16 includes performance improvements in query execution, adds several new monitoring features, and provides security enhancements. "PostgreSQL 16 can also improve the performance of concurrent bulk loading of data using COPY up to 300 percent," the announcement states (https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-16-beta-1-released-2643/).

This release previews all of the features that will be available when PostgreSQL 16 is officially available, although details may change during the beta period. "The PostgreSQL Project will release additional betas as required for testing, followed by one or more release candidates, until the final release in late 2023.