NetApp continues to strengthen its cloud storage offerings with the recent CloudCheckr acquisition. CloudCheckr adds value to the Spot portfolio, complementing Spot Eco, Ocean, Cloud Analyzer, and Spot PC capabilities with cloud billing analytics and configuration management, monitoring, and assessments. Customers and partners will gain the visibility and intelligence needed to better monitor, understand, and

AWS re:Invent introduced a vast collection of new product and feature updates, making it hard to keep track or keep up. Paid services that are reverted to free. Products with improved performance by increasing bandwidth and upgrading storage capacity could also be free. But, you have to turn them on within AWS, or you will

About two years ago, we penned a review of a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution comprised of Scale Computing for the hardware and Leostream for the VDI software. Since writing that article, the world has radically changed, and in effect, so have virtual desktops. Over the last two years, we have seen the largest migration

Looking for a platform to test your AI/ML applications before launch, but don’t have access to that redundant environment? Having the ability to build and test new AI workloads can save time, money, and headaches. NVIDIA has an answer that might be the solution to your development problem. And it’s free! Welcome NVIDIA LaunchPad.

Amazon announced four new storage services and capabilities at AWS re:Invent that deliver more choice, reduce costs, and help customers better protect their data. Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Glacier Instant Retrieval is now available as a new access tier in Amazon S3 Intelligent-Tiering. Amazon FSx for OpenZFS, a managed file storage service that

AWS CEO Adam Selipsky’s made six major service announcements during his keynote this week. One was AWS Private 5G, a new managed service that helps enterprises set up and scale private 5G mobile networks in their facilities in days instead of months. With just a few clicks in the AWS console, customers specify where they want

Amazon has launched three AWS Outposts servers, each of which is powered by the AWS Nitro System. Outposts is a line of fully managed solutions that offer AWS infrastructure and services to any on-premises or edge location. Their solutions also give customers the ability to extend and run native AWS services on-premises in a range

AWS first announced in 2018 as a system of products, including Nitro Cards to accelerate and offload network and storage I/O, the Nitro Security Chip to monitor and protect hardware resources, and the Nitro Hypervisor to manage memory and CPU allocation with very low overhead, to deliver innovation quickly. For decades, traditional hard drives were the primary block

Powered by new Graviton3 processors, AWS EC2 C7g instances are going to be a great match for compute-intensive workloads: HPC, batch processing, electronic design automation (EDA), media encoding, scientific modeling, ad serving, distributed analytics, and CPU-based machine learning inferencing.