VMware has announced what will be in Update 3 (U3) of their popular hypervisor platform, vSphere, and their software-defined storage (SDS) product vSAN. After reading over the announcement these are the items with vSphere 7 Update 3 that we are most excited about and why.
We have been impressed with NVMe drives since we first reviewed them and realized the performance capabilities that they possessed. In the early days, their cost and the lack of PCIe slots in servers to host them were limiting factors to their adoption for use as local storage. However, in a recent report that we
Western Digital has announced the new WD Red SN700 NVMe SSD, a high-endurance, caching drive that helps to accelerate NAS performance for its SMB customers. WD has purpose-built the SN700 to support 24/7 NAS environments and always-on applications, focusing on reliability and endurance with a 1,750,000 hour MTBF rating.
Synology has announced the launch of C2 Backup For Individuals and C2 Backup For Businesses, the latest addition to the company’s C2 cloud application portfolio. C2 Backup offers users comprehensive and efficient data protection for Windows devices, both at home or distributed across multiple offices. It also allows users to securely back up everything on
Dell Technologies has announced new AIOps Capabilities, including the new CloudIQ support for PowerEdge servers and PowerSwitch networking that now covers all of Dell EMC-branded infrastructure portfolio. This allows for more intelligent AIOps capabilities, including new levels of automation.
Kioxia launched their storage-class memory (SCM), dubbed XL-FLASH, over two years ago. It took a good deal of time to deliver a packaged solution in the form of an SSD though, and Kioxia wasn’t the first to get there. It was DapuStor leading the way with XL-FLASH shipping the H3900 toward the end of 2020.
Dell Technologies has released a number of new updates today, building on their popular scale-out NAS platform. The news is highlighted by a series of Dell EMC PowerScale hybrid (H700 and H7000) and archive (A300 and A3000) nodes. There are also several software updates as well, including OneFS DataIQ, and PowerScale data protection.
Dell Technologies hosted a digital event today, bringing together experts to discuss protection in the age of ransomware. Of course, the numbers are scary, the reports of ransomware are so common, most of us are numb to it. Ransomware is something that all organizations need to address though. So in addition to fearsome numbers about
Lenovo has announced the ThinkEdge SE70, a powerful and flexible AI edge platform for the enterprise area and commercial businesses. Unveiled at the company’s annual TechWorld event, the SE70 is a rugged, purpose-built device designed to meet the expanding intelligent transformation needs for a range of industries, including logistics, transportation, hospitality, retail, security (particularly Layered
Brian recently hosted a podcast with Jason Adrian, the co-chair of the OCP storage project and the hardware lead at Azure, where they discussed the future of storage solutions. The main topic of discussion was the versatile E1.S form factor. Based on our conversation, if you aren’t excited about the promise of this technology, you
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