Today QNAP Systems Inc. released the latest beta to its NAS operating system, QNAP QTS 5.0 Beta. Part of the beta release is an upgraded Linux Kernel 5.10. The other features the beta will be bringing are improved security, WireGuard VPN support, and enhanced NVMe SSD cache performance.

Summer is here, it’s hot, and the big companies are still swallowing up the smaller guys. In this case, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Zerto. This deal is reported to be for about $374 million. Zerto will be integrated into HPE GreenLake.

Today at the 2021 International Supercomputing Conference, Intel announced that its 3rd gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors are now powering supercomputers and high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The new CPU, codenamed Intel Sapphire Rapids, integrates with high Bandwidth memory (HBM). Intel says this will be ideal for working in HPC and with AI. Other announcements today

Today NVIDIA announced that with the help of some of its global partners, it is launching new NVIDIA HGX A100 systems. The new systems are looking to accelerate AI and HPC by adding NVIDIA elements such as NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe GPU, NVIDIA NDR 400G InfiniBand networking, and NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage software. These

At the beginning of June Cisco hosted a Future Cloud event it showcased several of its cloud innovations. From our view, the event was highlighted by the new Cisco UCS X-Series, powered by Cisco Intersight. X-Series is a bit different than past rack or blade models, as it blends systems and node types into a

It feels like Synology DiskStation Manager (DSM) has been in the 6.x version forever. Well, today the company announced the release of Synology DSM 7.0. The main updates of DSM 7.0 concern enhancing security, system management capabilities, and improving data collaboration and the company’s NAS and SAN devices. The company is also announcing that there

Dell Technologies has announced Dell EMC Unity XT 5.1, which brings new features and enhancements to enterprise software focused on improving business outcomes and workflows. This includes new capabilities for Advanced File, Block and vVol Data Services, Data Protection, Data Migration, Management, Multi-Cloud Operations, and Software-Defined Storage.

The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) has announced the general availability for Rocky Linux 8.4. Or more specifically they have announced the general availability for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. Not too long ago we sat down with Gregory Kurtzer to speak about Rocky Linux.

Today Western Digital (WDC) announced that its new Ultrastar Edge Servers including a rugged MIL-spec version or the Western Digital Ultrastar Edge-MR. Like other edge servers, the Ultrastar Edge Servers aim to bring compute closer to the data which in turn should lead to faster processing, lower latency, and real-time decision making. Both servers are