At the What’s Next Western Digital event, Western Digital announced two new additions to its growing WD_BLACK gaming portfolio. The WD_BLACK SN850X NVMe SSD and WD_BLACK P40 Game Drive SSD. Designed to elevate the gaming experience, the expanded portfolio offers players more options to upgrade their PC or console storage.

AWS has introduced a new EC2 instance, l4i, powered by the latest Intel Xeon Scalable (Ice Lake) Processors featuring up to 30TB of local AWS Nitro SSD storage. The l4i instances are an excellent fit for MySQL, Oracle DB, and Microsoft SQL Server, and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, Couchbase, Aerospike, and Redis, where low

Panasas announced the addition of two new ActiveStor systems to its portfolio of high-performance storage solutions. The all-NVMe ActiveStor Flash and high capacity ActiveStor Ultra XL will accelerate advanced AI/ML training, modeling and simulation, high-performance data analytics, and massive-scale data workloads. The two new systems join ActiveStore Ultra as a part of Panasas’ storage solution

QNAP has announced the launch of their new enterprise-grade rackmount NAS, the TS-h1886XU-RP R2. The new 2U NAS is equipped with twelve 3.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s drive-bays and six 2.5-inch SATA 6Gb/s SSD slots. It is based on the ZFS-based file system QuTS hero, powered by an Intel Xeon D-1622 processor, and designed to offer server-grade

Samsung has announced the latest addition to its extensive and highly popular microSD card portfolio, the Samsung PRO Endurance. Designed specifically to handle the demands of surveillance, dashboard, doorbell, and body cameras, Samsung’s new microSD card features improved endurance over its predecessors. It also features necessary transfer rates to handle continuous capture, playback and always-on

Today at Dell Technologies World, Dell Technologies announced Quad-level cell (QLC) support for Dell PowerScale F900 and F600 all-flash models. The new 15TB and 30TB QLC flash memory drives are expected to be introduced in the summer, delivering up to 25 percent or better performance for streaming reads, depending on the workload, with all-flash nodes

At the start of day two of Dell Technologies World, Dell Technologies announced software enhancements across its storage portfolio. More than 500 software advancements will improve intelligence, automation, data mobility, and security across clouds, on-premises, and edge environments with no additional cost to existing customers.

During the opening of Dell Technologies World today, Dell wasted no time announcing new cloud experiences, an expanded ecosystem, and offerings to help customers manage and protect applications across data centers and multi-cloud environments. The announced products and services strengthen Dell’s APEX portfolio with managed services for cyber recovery and extend multi-cloud cyber recovery capabilities

Solidigm has announced the introduction of the D7-P5520 and D7-P5620 high-performance SSDs geared toward cloud and enterprise workloads designed with zero tolerance for data errors. The new D7 drives are optimized for real-world compute and storage server workloads, available in several form factors and capacities, with a smaller storage footprint and lower power consumption.