Samsung Expected to Unveil Enterprise "PBSSD" Subscription Service at GTC

[T0@st]

Samsung Electronics is all set to discuss the future of AI, alongside Jensen Huang, at NVIDIA's upcoming GTC 2024 conference. South Korean insiders have leaked the company's intentions, only days before the event's March 18 kickoff time. Their recently unveiled 36 GB HBM3E 12H DRAM product is expected to be the main focus of official presentations—additionally, a new storage subscription service is marked down for a possible live introduction. An overall "Redefining AI Infrastructure" presentation could include—according to BusinessKorea—a planned launch of: "petabyte (PB)-level SSD solution, dubbed 'PBSSD,' along with a subscription service in the US market within the second quarter (of 2024) to address the era of ultra-high-capacity data."

A Samsung statement—likely sourced from leaked material—summarized this business model: "the subscription service will help reduce initial investment costs in storage infrastructure for our customers and cut down on maintenance expenses." Under agreed upon conditions, customers are not required to purchasing ultra-high-capacity SSD solutions outright: "enterprises using the service can flexibly utilize SSD storage without the need to build separate infrastructure, while simultaneously receiving various services from Samsung Electronics related to storage management, security, and upgrades." A special session—"The Value of Storage as a Service for AI/ML and Data Analysis"—is alleged to be on the company's GTC schedule.



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[shagath]

This could be quite huge.

 

[Ferrum Master]

The MS Paint level mockups leave kinda weird aftertaste from a multi billion company.

 

[Scrizz]

The PBSSD is essentially just an all-flash array.
It would be interesting to see how their density compared to something like this:

vSAN, Dell Hyperscale and Solidigm 2PB Videos, Big Supermicro Blade Review, More...

2PB Of Flash From Solidigm Unboxed No SSDs were harmed in the process of making this video. Flash density has rocketed in the last year, we're now dealing with SSDs that are 61.

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[phanbuey]

It sounds interesting... but how does the subscription service work? Is it just a lease by another name? And how do you not need to build out separate infrastructure?