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Western Digital OpenFlex Data24
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Western Digital OpenFlex Data24 Announced

Today, Western Digital (WD) announced plans to begin shipping its Western Digital OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF (NVMe over Fabrics) Storage Platform in the fall. WD’s OpenFlex Data24 device will ship with 24 NVMe SSDs inside.  We covered WD’s OpenFlex architecture when they announced it two years ago.  Western Digital was founded 50 years ago as General Digital.

Lightbits Labs LightOS 2.0
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Lightbits Labs LightOS 2.0 Launched

Lightbits Labs is rolling out the newest version of its OS, Lightbits Labs LightOS 2.0. The company states that the new version enables cloud-native persistent storage integration for Kubernetes with unprecedented scaling and availability via clustering. Lightbits goes on to say that containerized applications can enjoy reliable disaggregated storage that performs like local flash.

HPE GreenLake cloud services
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HPE GreenLake Cloud Services Announced

Today at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)’s annual show, now digital, HPE Discover, the company announced the release of a major expansion of GreenLake with HPE GreenLake cloud services. The new GreenLake cloud services will span container management, machine learning operations, VMs, storage, compute, data protection, and networking. This marks a continuation of the company’s edge-to-cloud

Qumulo Shift
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Qumulo Shift Announced

Today, Qumulo announced a service they are calling Qumulo Shift. The new service will allow customers to move file data from any Qumulo cluster into Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in an open and non-proprietary format.

Nebulon
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Nebulon Offers New Kind of Storage

Today, the startup Nebulon Inc. announced their first commercial offering. Well, I call them a startup since they are only two years old, but LinkedIn already lists fifty-two individuals who report the company as their employer. Nebulon Inc. plans to offer cloud-defined storage (CDS) through datacenter infrastructure vendors initially.

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AWS Snowcone Now Available

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced AWS Snowcone, a unique ultra-portable, secure edge computing and data transfer device. Snowcone weighs in at just under 5lbs and is the smallest member of the AWS Snow family, allowing customers to process stored data locally then ship it to AWS or online via the AWS DataSync. AWS Snowcone

3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable
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3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable CPUs Released

Today we see a huge announcement in the form of 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Cooper Lake) coming out. While most CPU updates come with the whiz, bang, pow updates of performance, Intel is actually releasing the processors that are built around workloads, specifically AI. The new CPUs go hand in hand with

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Intel Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series Announced

Intel has announced the Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series, the company’s 2nd-gen high-performing, persistent memory tier for 3rd-gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors on 4-socket platforms. The new line of PMem is quoted to deliver an average of 25% more in memory bandwidth compared to the last generation, 12-15 watts of thermal design power (TDP), and

Dell EMC PowerScale
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Dell EMC PowerScale Storage Announced

Today Dell Technologies announced its latest storage family to combine storage software and server hardware, Dell EMC PowerScale. This technological combination aims to set the standard on how companies capture and capitalize on unstructured data, such as documents, images, videos, and, important in this modern age, social media content. PowerScale can be used elastically by

VMware Lastline NXS security
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VMware To Acquire Lastline

VMware has announced the intention to acquire Lastline, a cybersecurity company and breach detection platform provider. VMware is a provider of cloud computing and virtualization software and services. With this addition, VMware is looking to enhance its SDN network virtualization and security platform, NSX. The company affirms that the partnership is a step forward for