In July this year, Dell announced substantial updates to the PowerStore unified storage platform. The most apparent announcements were around updated hardware, bringing PowerStore to its second generation. Perhaps more important, though, were the additions on the software side with the PowerStoreOS 3.0. The OS update includes over 120 new or enhanced features ranging from

Dell PowerScale launched QLC SSD support in May this year at Dell Tech World for their F600 and F900 nodes. Support for the 15.36TB and 30.72TB SSDs was immediately embraced by PowerScale customers, who started gobbling up these extremely dense PowerScale nodes as they went GA over the summer. These new QLC drives, supported by

The Tripp Lite 14U SmartRack is a unique, compact server rack fully assembled out of the box and designed to organize and secure deeper standard-width rack equipment. Because it supports equipment mounting up to 42 inches deep, the Tripp Lite SmartRack is great for most high-density equipment installations that need additional space for cable management

AMD has announced the general availability of the new EPYC 9004 4th-gen CPUs. Code-named AMD Genoa, the new line of CPUs supports 12 channels of DDR5-4800 (up to 6TB memory capacity per socket), 128 lanes of PCIe Gen5, AMD Infinity Fabric/Guard technology, and up to 96 cores. This makes them ideal for critical workloads across

MemVerge has created a software tool that gives systems administrators comprehensive insight into physical memory topology and application memory utilization. MemVerge MemoryViewer, with its intuitive graphical interface, provides a real-time view of the memory configuration and the bandwidth of each type of memory hardware.

QSAN Technology Inc. has launched its next-generation Hybrid Flash Storage 3300 series, optimized in price and performance for SMB workloads. In our lab is the QSAN XCubeSAN XS3312D, a 2U, dual-controller SAN designed to meet the needs of small and medium businesses, remote or edge locations, and anywhere else where a blend of performance and

Inspur has released the second generation of their Solid State Drive (SSD) the NS8500, a PCIe Gen4 x4 -based enterprise controller architecture, utilizing 112L 3D eTLC NAND technology. The Inspur SSD NS8500 G2 supports NVMe 1.4 and is designed for read-intensive applications.

The Lenovo ThinkSystem ST250 V2 is a single-socket server for small businesses supporting on-premise setups. It’s ideal for office tasks, especially filesharing and surveillance because of its highly versatile storage options. Configurations can include 16 2.5-inch, eight 2.5-inch, or a mix of 2.5- and 3.5-inch drives which support simple or hot-swapping. Despite its budget positioning,

Almost two years ago, we completed a review of a Viking Enterprise Solutions (VES) storage server with 24 NVMe bays and twin compute nodes in a 2U chassis. VES is a major OEM, creating some of the most innovative storage server systems in the market. Recently we had the opportunity to get hands-on with a