During the Intel Memory and Storage Moment 2020, Intel shared performance numbers for the Optane persistent memory 200 series in a DAOS instance. These preliminary performance numbers are based on the 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable architecture with Intel Optane PMem 100 Series vs. the Intel Optane PMem 200 Series running in brand new system design. DAOS

Google has announced Confidential Computing virtual machines (VMs) on the Google Compute Engine, powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors’ security. Within the disclosure, Google declared they had completed the rollout of Confidential Computing to general availability in nine regions; made possible to partners such as AMD, Red Hat, SUSE, Thales, and others. Confidential Computing can provide

Announced in June, the StorONE All-Flash is a 2U array that is all about the price to performance. The company has done a few interesting things here with storage tiering. As opposed to using Intel Optane SSD as a cache, the StorONE array uses Optane as its top tier of storage. StorONE further cements its

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. TerraMaster launches U4-111 enterprise-class storage server. Bamboo Systems granted new patent. QNAP expands its switch portfolio. Datadobi and Wasabi announce a partnership. Excelero announces support for next-gen Intel Optane. WekaIO and Rancher

iXsystems officially launched its TrueCommand Cloud. With this cloud-based service, it is ideal for managed and unmanaged solution providers alike. The solution comes with a cost being very reasonable (Subscriptions start at $10 per month for managing up to 50 drives) and the ability TrueNAS can use Cloud storage services (S3, Backblaze, Azure, and many

The QSAN XCubeFAS 3126D is an entry-level all-flash array that features 100% Native NVMe3U26 high-density storage. It has been a while since we’ve reviewed a QSAN product, so it’s nice to get our hands on one again, and put it through our tests. That said, the XCubeFAS 3126D is a decently-specced system that is released

Today NetApp announced a new object storage device for smaller environments with the NetApp StorageGRID SG100. The SG100 will be a turnkey solution for object stores that leverages the StorageGRID admin and gateway node software. This software also includes StorageGRID load balancer, what the company calls a critical component to operating object storage.

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has released a major new version of its storage solution benchmark, designed to help IT managers make better purchasing, configuration and optimization decisions.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Cisco Acquires Slido and IMImobile. Atempo updates Tina and Miria. Arcserve X Series released. XenData launches two LTO appliances. AWS announced new storage instances at re:Invent. Firebolt launches with $37 million in