Samsung kicked off their virtual tech day with an opening keynote by Samsung Semiconductor US President Jae Jeong highlighting advancements in storage density and speed, security, computational storage as well as collaboration with other industry leaders. Following his opening remarks, the clicker was passed over to Jim Elliott to expand on Samsung’s focus and direction. The

GIGABYTE launched eight newly refreshed Arm-based servers for the Ampere Altra processor, comprised of G242-P33, G242-P34, R152-P31, R152-P32, R272-P31, R272-P32, R272-P33, and E252-P31. These cost-effective servers support SATA drives and are designed for use cases that need a higher core count, such as cloud and edge workloads. Updated Arm-based servers were one of the bigger

QNAP Systems has announced the immediate availability of the QVP-41B, the company’s newest NVR network surveillance server designed to meet the high-speed networking needs of small/medium-sized monitoring environments. Featuring sixteen 30-watt Gigabit PoE ports, two RJ45/SFP combo ports, and two 2.5GbE host management ports, the QNAP QVP-41B supports a range of different PoE devices. The

Samsung Electronics announced that it would build a new semiconductor manufacturing facility in Taylor, Texas just 16 miles from their current Austin facility. Estimated to cost $17 billion, the new plant will create 2,000 new jobs and will help boost the production of advanced logic semiconductor solutions that power next-generation innovations and technologies.

When you think NVMe, SSDs are the first thing that comes to mind. And for good reason, the NVMe interface changed the game when it comes to flash latency and throughput. In June, NVM Express, the non-profit organization behind NVMe specifications, released solutions that include support for Hard Disk Drives (HDDs). Additionally, the specifications facilitate

ScaleFlux showcased new Computational Storage products based on the ScaleFlux SFX 3000 storage processor during OCP Summit. Computational Storage is designed to help alleviate compute and memory bottlenecks while improving ROI for data center and IT infrastructure.

Synology has announced two new NAS systems geared toward SMB use cases, the DiskStation DS3622xs+ and the DS2422+. The former solution features a 6-core Intel Xeon CPU with two 10GbE built-in ports, while the latter is outfitted with a 4-core AMD Ryzen CPU. These two new releases are mild refreshes (essentially featuring much of the

QNAP has launched the TS-364, a new 3-bay RAID5 NAS, outfitted with M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe SSD slots and 2.5GbE connectivity. The new QNAP NAS is designed for home/office environments, supporting light virtualization/containers and HDMI output. It’s ideal for centralized storage, backup, file sharing, and multimedia use cases and features the usual suite of NAS

Proxmox has released version 7.1 of Proxmox Virtual Environment, its server virtualization management platform. The newest release is based on Debian Bullseye 11.1 (using Linux kernel 5.13) and is comprised of updates to open-source technologies for virtual environments, such as QEMU 6.1, LXC 4.0, Ceph Pacific 16.2.6, and ZFS 2.1.