NVIDIA Hopper architecture took center stage during NVIDIA GTC with the focus to power the next wave of AI data centers. Named for Grace Hopper, a pioneering U.S. computer scientist, the next-generation accelerated computing platform delivers an order of magnitude performance over its predecessor, NVIDIA Ampere.

KIOXIA has announced the sampling of the CD8 Series, its 2nd-generation PCIe 5.0 SSD available in a 2.5-inch, 15mm Z-height form factor. The new CD8 Series of SSDs have twice the bandwidth per lane compared to PCIe 4.0 SSDs (from 16GT/s to 32GT/s) and are optimized for hyperscale data center and enterprise server-attached workloads.

Lenovo has announced the ThinkStation P360 Tower and Tiny, their latest additions to its portfolio of entry-level desktop workstations. These value-oriented offerings are purpose-built for engineers and designers that work with clock-speed-driven 3D applications, while also being suitable for AI practitioners and data scientists who work on smaller-sized projects and datasets.

Seagate has announced the launch of the new SkyHawk 20TB HDD, a high-capacity drive solution for AI-enabled video imaging and analytics systems. The new drive is specifically designed for network video recorders (NVRs) enabled with AI for edge security applications.

HPE announced a unified experience providing one view of all services edge-to-cloud, the convergence with Aruba Central, and the addition of 12 new cloud services to the HPE GreenLake Edge-to-Cloud platform. The new cloud services include Network-as-a-Service, data services, HPC functions, and compute operations management. HPE GreenLake will also be available in the online marketplaces

Supermicro has announced the general availability of the Universal GPU system that simplifies large-scale GPU deployments and is designed to be future-proof to support yet-to-be-announced technologies. The Universal GPU server architecture has combined the latest technologies supporting multiple GPU form factors, CPU choices, storage, and networking options optimized to deliver a uniquely configured, highly scalable

AMD has announced the general availability of 3rd-gen AMD EPYC processors with AMD 3D V-Cache technology (previously codenamed “Milan-X”), the world’s first data center CPU that leverages 3D die stacking. These new processors feature the Zen 3 core architecture and expand on the already impressive 3rd Gen EPYC portfolio. Compared to non-stacked 3rd-Gen EPYC processors,

NetApp and Cisco have announced the FlexPod XCS, an automated platform for modern applications, data, and hybrid cloud services. FlexPod is composed of pre-validated storage, networking, server technologies from Cisco and NetApp. The two technology companies have been partners on the FlexPod platform evolution for over 10 years.

For the most part, we don’t report on a lot of press releases, but when Dell Technologies latest news blurb mentioned the 2011 science fiction novel Ready Player One by Ernest Cline in its opening paragraph we knew that we had to take a deeper look. This announcement discusses two new solutions from Dell in