Dell has announced the general availability of DDOS 7.9 for PowerProtect DD series appliances, its second OS release of the year. The new DDOS 7.9 is highlighted by the addition of Smart Scale, a new feature for PowerProtect appliances, and improvements to Dell’s PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition (the company’s software-defined appliance), for in-cloud deployments. Dell

Retrospect has announced Retrospect Cloud Storage, a low-cost, high-availability (HA) cloud storage service delivered across 13 global data centers. Integrated with Retrospect Backup, the single subscription service offers businesses complete ransomware protection and a detection solution that encompasses on-premises and cloud protection.

Micron has announced additions to its embedded product portfolio and ecosystem partnerships focused solutions optimized for complex memory and storage demands at the intelligent edge. Specifically, Micron is now customer-sampling the 1.5TB i400 microSD card, which is dubbed the world’s highest-capacity microSD.

One of the lesser-known products Mellanox was working on before the NVIDIA acquisition was a data processing unit (DPU) dubbed BlueField. The pitch six years ago is similar to the one today, giving storage (and now accelerators) direct access to the network without traditional x86 architecture in the way. After all, CPUs are better used

iXsystems announced the availability of the second release of TrueNAS SCALE for scale-out storage and open hyper-convergence. TrueNAS SCALE features High Availability (HA) and support for SMB clustering, and, with new functionality in TrueCommand, wizards are available to make it easy to create SMB clusters. Built on Linux, TrueNAS SCALE supports Docker Containers, Kubernetes, KVM,

The Lenovo ThinkStation P360 Ultra is a mini workstation that doesn’t act like one. Despite a small four-liter chassis, it features up to an Intel K-series processor, 128GB of DDR5 memory, two PCIe Gen4 storage drives, and most importantly, a replaceable graphics card up to the Nvidia RTX A5000 Mobile.

Cisco Nexus took center stage at Cisco Live in Las Vegas by introducing several new products and 400G technology with an option to migrate to 800G on the new Nexus 9800. Other new Nexus models include the 9400 and 9300, and all Nexus models support the 400G technology.

Taking advantage of the Cisco Live security and networking event, Cisco unveiled new cloud management capabilities that provide a unified experience across the Cisco Meraki, Cisco Catalyst, and Cisco Nexus portfolios and a new Cisco ThousandEyes product to proactively forecast and optimize WAN performance. Cisco’s vision is to enable IT teams to work smarter and simplify

Solidigm recently introduced the new PCIe 4.0 D7-P5520 and D7-P5620 family of SSDs targeting enterprise and cloud workloads while reducing TCO. The new D7 SSDs are in full production, with broad qualifications and deployments. Solidigm organized a webinar to provide a deep look into what goes into the design and the resulting increase in performance