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HY Tech Insights Issue 1
The "AI Tax" just became a "Efficiency Dividend." 📉 IBM & Nvidia just cut data mart costs by 83% by moving SQL to GPUs. Stop saving GPUs for LLMs and start using them to fix your burn rate.
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· Howard Young · kbWhat is All-Flash Tiered Backup?
Tiered All-Flash Backup is a storage architecture that uses different grades of flash memory for data protection. The "performance tier" allows for near-instant restoration of critical systems after a cyberattack, while the "capacity tier" uses high-density flash (like QLC) to store massive amounts of historical data more efficiently than traditional tape or disk.
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What is Vector Indexing (DiskANN)?
Traditional vector search lives in RAM. It’s fast, but it’s expensive. Once you hit 100M+ vectors, your cloud bill doesn't just grow—it explodes