As companies continue migrating their data center functions to cloud providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud, and Google Cloud, they find some of those non-fault tolerant applications are costing more than anticipated. The use of temporary, idle cloud inventory is proving problematic.

Properly leveraging the vast amount of growing data can be a momentous task for many organizations. Being able to reliably search, manage, store, and analyze content is vital for success, which is also true when it comes to figuring out how to move forward in digital transformation. HPE realizes this is most important when it

Windows is great for a lot of things, there’s a reason it’s the number one operating system in the world. That said, it’s not perfect, especially when it comes to embracing new storage standards. As such, there’s a tremendous opportunity for enterprising companies to develop solutions for Windows shops. As NVMe SSDs continue to dominate

We’ve worked with DataON a good deal in the past around their Azure Stack HCI offerings. They’ve done some great work with their Intel platforms and they’ve been able to take advantage of the entire ecosystem, including Intel servers, Optane storage, TLC SSDs, and even QLC SSDs for a low-cost data tier. Now, with new

We’ve been talking a lot about E1.S (ruler) SSDs lately. The last podcast covered ruler, we even transcribed key findings from that conversation in a ruler deep dive. Now, we’ve got a box of E1.S SSDs in from SK hynix, that leverage the popular 15mm z-height standard. Having the flash is fun and all, but

Dell Technologies has released a number of new updates today, building on their popular scale-out NAS platform. The news is highlighted by a series of Dell EMC PowerScale hybrid (H700 and H7000) and archive (A300 and A3000) nodes. There are also several software updates as well, including OneFS DataIQ, and PowerScale data protection.

We’ve been spending a lot of hands-on time with the Dell EMC PowerStore arrays. We did a deployment hands-on of the all-new Dell EMC PowerStore. Then we looked at what it takes to scale PowerStore units, in this deep dive. Now we’re working to evaluate Dell EMC’s PowerStore X, which supports running applications on the

Today Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced new top-loading storage solutions that leverage the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Supermicro is rolling out 60-bay and 90-bay solutions that leverage the company’s new Simply Double storage systems. The support of the new processors means that these new storage solutions can support PCIe Gen4 drives for maximum

Back at the end of April, Oracle released new compute instances, this time based on the 3rd generation of Intel Xeon Scalable processors, also known as Ice Lake. Oracle released the new instances to provide an enterprise-grade capability for compute-intensive and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. When paired with Oracle’s high-speed networking back-end and automation tools,