Last week there was a vSphere 7 Update 1 that added support for AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). With this update, AMD is announcing that it can bring both advanced security features and high-performance capabilities with AMD EPYC processors to VMware environments. AMD is achieving this through an expanded ecosystem with several of the major

The deployment and ongoing management of computing resources in small offices and remote/branch office (ROBO) environments have always been problematic, with many different and competing factors at play. Many enterprises, as well as small and mid-size businesses (SMBs), depend on ROBO HCI systems to handle the day-to-day business-critical transactions that are the lifeblood of these

Piggybacking on the VMware’s announcements today, Dell Technologies announced that it was more tightly integrating VMware Tanzu on Dell EMC VxRail. On top of Tanzu, Dell and VMware are integrating the new vSAN and vSphere releases into VxRail. And Dell is taking advantage of the new VMware Cloud Foundation remote cluster management functionality for VxRail

In an announcement earlier today, Lenovo called remote work the “new, smarter normal.” To help companies deal with remote work being the new normal, Lenovo also announced plans for improvements and additions to most of their ThinkAgile Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) lines, some of which won’t be available until near the end of the year.

We in the IT community often obsess over show horses—the fastest and/or most powerful devices or systems—because we love those big and small numbers they showcase. The reality, however, is that most users simply don’t need the ostentatious power of show horses. They need workhorses, systems that can serve up real workloads on a day-to-day

StorageReview did a live stream this week with Scale Computing, taking a deep dive into the UI for their HC3 hyperconverged system. Founded in 2008, Scale Computing revolves around letting companies enjoy the benefits of HCI without the costs normally associated with it. Their HC3 products and software takes all the normal needs of HCI

On this week’s podcast Brian talks in person with Dave Demlow. Dave is the VP of Product Strategy for Scale Computing, which is code for getting to do the fun visionary work. Scale has been in the HCI business for about as long as HCI has been a thing. Historically Scale has sold HCI like

Pivot3 shared with us some of the details of their next planned update to their Acuity Software Platform. Pivot3 was founded in 2003 and shipped its first hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) platform in 2008. It currently focuses on providing HCI products, especially for surveillance, including both datacenter and edge platforms running custom software.

In this week’s podcast Brian chats with Preetham Mukhatira, Director of Product Management at Dell EMC. On the podcast Preetham dives into the overall Dell EMC HCI portfolio, with an emphasis on the Azure-based offerings. While most know of vSAN Ready Nodes, VxRail and the larger converged solutions, Dell Technologies has been pioneering Azure-based solutions