Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced new solutions centered around deep learning systems, high-performance computing (HPC), and financial industry (FSI) applications. These new solutions are workload optimized compute platforms that are designed to accelerate customer innovation and time-to-value.
Intel Releases Its New Xeon Processor E5-2600 v4 Product Family
As several of our news stories and one review have pointed out earlier today, Intel has released a new “tick” processor the Xeon E5-2600 v4 Broadwell product family. As with all new processor releases, this one centers around increased performance and efficiency. The performance increase is designed to affect a wide range of workloads and,
Lenovo Announces Servers & Solutions Featuring New Intel Xeon CPUs
Today Lenovo announced new servers, software, and solutions all aimed at accelerated performance, simplified management, and a reduced total cost of ownership (TCO). These new products will feature the newly released Intel Xeon series processors. Using the new processors Lenovo was able to achieve 6 performance world records including world record for x86 two-processor virtualized
HPE Expands Its Server Portfolio Providing Support For Persistent Memory
A few days ago Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced their new Persistent Memory (a combination of DRAM and NAND in a DIMM format). Today they are announcing their new compute platforms that have built-in support for their new Persistent Memory. On top of these new platforms, HPE is also announcing new ProLiant Gen9 server options
HPE Unveils A New Tier Between Memory & Storage
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced what they are calling the first non-volatile DIMMs (NVDIMMs). HPE is calling this new product category Persistent Memory. They went on to state that their Persistent Memory gives the performance of memory with the persistence of storage and could potentially open up several new opportunities.
EMC Introduces ScaleIO 2.0
Today EMC announce the release of the latest version of ScaleIO, version 2.0. This is a milestone for EMC and for ScaleIO software that runs on commodity hardware. The new ScaleIO comes with several new features but the update focuses on three key aspects enriched security, enhanced resiliency, and extended platform support.
SanDisk & Red Hat Collaborate To Deliver Flash-based Ceph Storage Solutions
Today SanDisk, Corp and Red Hat, Inc. announced they would be forming a strategic alliance to bring the combined benefits of Ceph and flash storage to enterprise customers. The two companies aim to deliver this by pairing SanDisk’s InfiniFlash flash storage system with Red Hat Ceph Storage. According to both companies, this combined solution will
The LTO Program Releases Tape Media Shipment Report
Today the LTO Program Technology Provider Companies (TPCs) (including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM, and Quantum) released shipment data and a new report detailing tape media shipments. The data shows that 76,000PB of compressed capacity shipped in 2015 (up 17.8% from the previous year). The new report being launched shows both 2015 and year-over-year generational data. LTO
Seagate & Los Alamos Aim To Speed Up Cold Storage For HPC
Today Seagate Technology and Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos) announced that they were jointly working on a new archive storage tier for supercomputing data. The two companies are working together to find a way to store the massive amounts of data that are being generated in a way that saves power and is easy
DataDirect Networks GS14K Scale-out NAS Solution Announced
DataDirect Networks (DDN) has announced the newest product in the DDN GRIDScaler portfolio, the GS14K, which is touted by the company as industry’s fastest and most flexible scale-out NAS solution. The GS14K is built to deliver the speed and scale required by data intensive environments; it will accelerate analytics, increase reliability and integrate into modern workflows such




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