Of all the technologies in the datacenter, none are evolving more rapidly than network connectivity. 20 years ago, 1GbE networking was considered exotic, and the infrastructure required to support it (e.g., NICs, switches, and cables) were expensive and rare. Three years ago, 10GbE networks were state-of-the-art, but now 20, 40, and even 100GbE networks have

Today Dell Technologies announced a major refresh of its popular Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio with 17 new models. This refresh comes on the heels of the AMD EPYC 7003 processor announcement earlier this week and before the third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) coming soon. The refresh will contain Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525,

Today VMware, Inc. announced updates and innovations to its CloudHealth and vRealize Cloud Management. These updates focus on cloud management both on-prem and SaaS. The updates are said to help customers with monitoring, securing, optimizing, and automating their VMware Cloud and native public cloud services.

Today the Lenovo Data Center Group announced new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions that support the recently announced AMD EPYC 7003 or 3rd generation EPYC processors. The new solutions also include ThinkAgile HX (with Nutanix) and ThinkAgile VX (with VMware vSAN) both of which will be powered by the new processors. Lenovo will

With the announcement of the new AMD EPYC 7003 processors earlier in the week the major vendors have begun adding their support. Today is Dell Technologies’ turn as they announce a refresh of their Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio, starting with the new Dell EMC PowerEdge XE8545. The refresh is said to bring adaptive compute

With the announcement today of the latest generation of AMD EPYC 7003 processors, the major vendors will be rolling out support in the form of new systems, quite a few actually. In just servers alone, HPE introduced 3rd generation of AMD EPYC or EPYC 7003 support in the HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10 Plus v2 server,

The “March to Milan” is finally at an end, as the release of AMD EPYC 7003 is here, and along with it, a slew of new information on the next-gen CPU release. The new EPYC CPUs are a technical feat in the processor world, building on the success of the first two versions by posting

In this week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Quantum releases reference architecture for surveillance. Qumulo integrates with Commvault. AWS announces One Zone storage. WekaIO awarded three new patents. Virtium releases StorFly Series 6 SSDs. CTERA launches remote work suite.

Today NetApp announced the general availability of NetApp Astra, formally known as Project Astra, on Google Cloud. Astra is said to be a fully managed application-aware data management service built for Kubernetes workloads. The service allows businesses to protect, recover, and move applications deployed on Kubernetes with no software to download, install, manage, or upgrade.