Supermicro’s JumpStart program has established itself as one of the more useful tools in the pre-purchase evaluation toolkit for AI infrastructure. Rather than a scripted demo in a shared environment, JumpStart gives qualified users free, time-boxed, bare-metal access to real production servers via SSH, IPMI, and VNC, enabling them to run workloads on actual hardware.

While hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has simplified virtualization via streamlined deployments and reduced operational overhead, traditional architectures often struggle with asymmetric scaling. This is particularly evident when storage requirements for large unstructured datasets outpace compute needs, forcing IT teams into inefficient and costly node expansions. To address this imbalance, Scale Computing and Nexsan have introduced a

The Dell PowerEdge R770AP is not a general-purpose server, and that is entirely the point. Where most 2U dual-socket platforms chase flexibility, the R770AP strips it away, trading GPU support, mixed storage options, and raw memory capacity for the highest core density, memory bandwidth, and execution determinism available in Dell’s current Intel lineup. It is

At the Nutanix .NEXT Conference in Chicago, Nutanix and NetApp announced a strategic partnership to integrate NetApp Intelligent Data Infrastructure with the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), including support for the Nutanix AHV hypervisor. The integration is expected later this year and targets enterprises looking to align virtualization and data management strategies across on-premises, hybrid cloud,

After publishing our article about Microsoft’s opt-in native NVMe feature on Windows Server 2025, we received multiple requests for a direct comparison of storage performance between Windows Server 2025 with native NVMe and a Linux-based server OS. One especially enthusiastic Redditor even offered us beer to do it! Since there were obviously no other reasonable options, we decided to

Backblaze has published its Q1 2026 Performance Stats report, a quarterly series comparing cloud storage performance across Backblaze B2, AWS S3, Cloudflare R2, and Wasabi Object Storage. The report covers testing in US-East and EU-Central and includes both the results and the methodology used, with the stated goal of letting others review, reproduce, and compare

StorageReview has been testing enterprise storage and infrastructure hardware for over 25 years. During that time, we have reviewed petabytes of data across drives, dozens of all-flash arrays, countless switches, servers, and networking gear. We have benchmarked hardware that costs more than most people’s houses. What we have never done, not once, is properly label

We’ve attended many events over the years, but something about NerdioCon feels different. Maybe it’s the focus. Maybe it’s the people. Or perhaps it’s that when you’re interested in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Windows 365 (W365), you find yourself surrounded by hundreds of others who care just as much as you do. Whatever the

AMD has released its MLPerf Inference v6.0 results, positioning the Instinct MI355X GPU as a scalable inference platform across single-node, multinode, and heterogeneous deployments. The submission extends beyond incremental gains by adding new workloads, demonstrating cluster-scale throughput exceeding 1 million tokens per second, and validating reproducibility across a growing partner ecosystem. CDNA 4 Architecture Targets