On December 15, 2025, Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2025 would finally adopt the NVMe standard natively in its storage architecture. However, NVMe storage has been a popular storage format on servers, enterprise workstations, and consumer PCs for many years, with OS compatibility built in since Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows 8.1. With this
The AI infrastructure market is not moving in a single direction; it is separating into two distinct worlds. On one side are frontier training clusters, built to develop foundation models at a massive scale, tightly coupled to proprietary fabrics and a narrow set of accelerators. The other is the rapidly expanding reality of enterprise inference,
HPE introduced the Alletra Storage MP X10000 platform in late November 2024 as the first disaggregated, all-flash, scale-out storage system designed to unify modern workloads under a single architecture. The design centers on a common hardware foundation managed entirely through the GreenLake (formerly HPE GreenLake) cloud platform, delivering high-performance object storage, flexible scaling, and integrated
Ubiquiti continues to expand its high-performance switching portfolio with the Pro XG lineup. It’s designed around 10GbE copper connectivity for environments that require higher access-layer bandwidth without moving directly to fiber or SFP+. The Pro XG series targets use cases such as next-generation WiFi access points, high-speed workstations, and direct-attached storage scenarios where multi-gig or
Currently priced at $799 on the Ubiquiti website, the UNAS Pro 8 is a 2U rackmount NAS designed for higher-capacity file storage and shared workloads, featuring eight 2.5/3.5-inch drive bays alongside two M.2 NVMe SSD slots for cache acceleration. This configuration targets environments that need increased throughput and lower latency while maintaining a compact rack
We recently received Supermicro’s dual-socket Turin-based A+ Server AS-2126HS-TN for review. It’s a 2U platform designed to support extremely high-core-count workloads and to provide flexible PCIe expansion. Built around and supporting dual AMD EPYC 9005 (Turin) and 9004 (Genoa) series processors, the system targets a broad range of enterprise and data center use cases, including
Since we first brought the QLC-based PowerStore 3200Q with PowerStoreOS 4.0 into the lab, Dell hasn’t slowed down. The company has expanded the lineup with the PowerStore 5200Q—a higher-performance, cost-optimized model built for a broader range of production workloads. At the same time, three major software releases (PowerStoreOS 4.1, 4.2, and 4.3) have added meaningful capabilities across the platform,
ARTESCA+ Veeam is what happens when backup software and backup storage stop acting like separate products and move into the same house. At a high level, it is a unified software appliance that runs Veeam Backup & Replication inside Scality ARTESCA on a single server. Instead of setting up a Windows server for Veeam, a
Our last look at a Ubiquiti switch was nearly a year ago, when we reviewed the Ubiquiti Pro Max 48 PoE. With some time having passed since that review, we are turning our attention back to the Pro Max lineup with a much more compact option, the Ubiquiti Pro Max 16 PoE, along with the
The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 V4 is a flexible and powerful 2-socket, 2U rack server designed to meet the needs of industries such as cloud services, telecommunications, and high-performance computing (HPC). Whether optimizing for scale-out workloads or future-proofing your data center with high-density compute, the SR650 V4 offers meaningful upgrades over its predecessor, the SR650 V3.
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