Supermicro has announced Universal GPU modular servers, which will allow users to configure systems for their specific applications and workloads, giving them the choice of mixing and matching components like GPUs, CPUs, and memory. This includes dual-processor configurations using either 3rd generation Intel Xeon Scalable or 3rd generation AMD EPYC processors.

Western Digital has updated two of their 20TB HDD lines, the Ultrastar DC HC560 and WD Gold, with OptiNAND. This high-capacity, 9-disk platform (2.2TB/platter) with CMR recording format drives offer drop-in simplicity to meet customers’ growing storage demands. WD also indicates that both drives feature a few industry-first technologies like energy-assisted magnetic recording (EAMR), triple-stage

KIOXIA has announced the newest addition to its portfolio of PCIe Gen4 SSDs, the KIOXIA BG5 Series, designed for mainstream PC users. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a client-grade SSD released from the company, so this is something we are certainly looking forward to testing. Nonetheless, the new line focuses on a balance

NVMe has been a top conversation this week, thanks in large part to OCP Global Summit in San Jose. During the event, KIOXIA America announced full production availability of NVMe-oF SSDs for Ethernet Bunch of Flash (EBOF) systems. The KIOXIA EM6 Series Enterprise system, using the Marvell 88SN2400 NVMe-oF SSD converter controller, converts an NVMe

During the annual OCP Global Summit in San Jose, Inspur and Samsung have announced the joint launch of the Poseidon V2 E3.x reference system. This server adopted composable architecture to maximize the benefits of the EDSFF E3.x form factor. Not only does the new Poseidon V2 support PCIe Gen5 SSDs, but also a range of

HP has announced three new offerings that will assist workers in accessing remote resources. Teradici CAS (Cloud Access Software) is featured prominently in all of these and is the first announcement from HP that we have seen regarding Teradici, a company they acquired earlier this year. We were excited to see NVIDIA in one and

NVIDIA Quantum-2 has been announced, an advanced end-to-end networking platform that offers better performance, expanded accessibility, and improved security needed by cloud providers and supercomputing centers. The NVIDIA Quantum-2 is a 400Gbps InfiniBand networking platform consisting of the Quantum-2 switch, ConnectX-7 network adapter, BlueField-3 data processing unit (DPU), and all the software to support the

Today NVIDIA LaunchPad hits new heights. LaunchPad is a hands-on environment where enterprise customers can use NVIDIA AI Enterprise servers in a vSphere 7 environment managed by Equinix free of charge for 2-4 weeks. Although enterprises are more than welcome to use this service with real workloads they are considering deploying on an NVIDIA environment,

Dell Technologies announces expanded availability of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions at Microsoft Ignite. Dell EMC PowerEdge servers, one of the industry’s top-selling server platforms, provide a solid base for hybrid data center solutions and software-defined portfolios.  Based on the latest Dell EMC PowerEdge server, its HCI portfolio includes Dell EMC VxRail, Dell EMC PowerFlex, and