The InfiniBand Trade Association (IBTA) has announced the availability of IBTA Specification Volume 1 Release 1.5. Highlighted by its support for MPE, the new release will bring a range of benefits including improved latency in PMEM applications used in high-performance, enterprise, and cloud data centers.

QNAP has added to the TS-hx77XU QuTS hero NAS series with the 16-bay TS-h1677XU-RP and 24-bay TS-h2477XU-RP rackmount models. The new additions feature AMD Ryzen 7, two 10GbE ports, AES-NI encryption, several PCIe slots, and a redundant power supply. In addition, the NAS rackmounts feature the advanced ZFS-based QuTS hero operating system and offer up

Today HP Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Teradici Corporation. Teradici just joined us on our podcast to go over the expanding remote workforce and the use of PCoIP. HP states that the acquisition will enhance its Personal Systems by delivering new compute models and services tailored for hybrid

Today Super Micro Computer, Inc. announced new top-loading storage solutions that leverage the 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Supermicro is rolling out 60-bay and 90-bay solutions that leverage the company’s new Simply Double storage systems. The support of the new processors means that these new storage solutions can support PCIe Gen4 drives for maximum

Kasten and its K10 Platform have been around for about four years, primarily offering data protection for Kubernetes. The demand for protecting these emerging workloads was growing so fast that Veeam acquired Kasten. The net result is an increasingly integrated offering that addresses both virtualization and container data protection. Kasten keeps a rapid development cycle,

The developers of TrueNAS have come out with their own Chia pool, TruePool. This Chia Pool supports open source and is managed by a team that has worked together on the TrueNAS project for roughly a decade. TruePool charges 1% for an operator’s fee, with 25% of that supporting the TrueNAS project. So if you’re

Today Microsoft unveiled its new cloud server that allows users to use Windows 10 or 11 as a Service, Windows 365. This new program delivers cloud PCs (including the OS, the apps, content, and settings) to any compatible device. This will be similar to Microsoft 365. Microsoft states that it will allow users to leverage

Back at the end of April, Oracle released new compute instances, this time based on the 3rd generation of Intel Xeon Scalable processors, also known as Ice Lake. Oracle released the new instances to provide an enterprise-grade capability for compute-intensive and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads. When paired with Oracle’s high-speed networking back-end and automation tools,

Earlier today, Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH, or just Proxmox for short, announced a major release of its server virtualization management platform, Proxmox Virtual Environment 7.0. Being a number before the decimal point always indicates big things. Here Proxmox announced the new release is based on Debian 11 “Bullseye” but using a Linux kernel 5.11, and