Today Xilinx, Inc. announced several products and solutions for the data center. These include the Xilinx Alveo SmartNICs, Smart World AI video analytics applications, an accelerated algorithmic trading reference design for sub-microsecond trading, and the Xilinx App Store. This new hardware and solutions are bringing composable data centers closer to reality.

Lenovo announced an expanded ThinkPad portfolio of mobile workstations. This expansion covers 13 new models (and a monitor) with both Intel 11th gen Core vPro and AMD Ryzen 5000 processors. The announcement today covers redesigned X13 and X13 Yoga along with the updated T and L series. The expanded portfolio aims to address the recent

Today IBM announced that Red Hat software is now available on IBM Power System. The company is also announcing new IBM Power Systems hardware. These announcements center around bringing Red Hat tools to IBM’s powerful servers to enable customers to better develop cloud-native applications and deploy them into high-performance hybrid cloud environments. The announcements today

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.  Seagate to discontinue access features on Seagate NAS. CTERA file services now available for HPE Nimble Storage dHCI. VAST Data announced a strong 2021. Zadara acquires NeoKarm. Quantum partners with Veeam.

Today KIOXIA Corporation and Western Digital Corp announced that both companies have developed their sixth-generation, 162-layer 3D flash memory technology. This marks the highest density and most advanced 3D Flash memory for both companies. KIOXIA and Western Digital have partnered on various projects for over 20 years, this just being the latest development in their

Today GIGABYTE Technology released a new sever for HPC, AI, and data analytics, the GIGABYTE G262-ZR0. The new server is built all around high-level performance in GPU computing. The server leverages PCIe 4.0 throughput and NVIDIA HGX as well as NVIDIA NVLink for ultra-high bandwidth performance.

Today Synology Inc. announced that it was adding new capacity points on its SNV3400 M.2 2280 and SNV3500 M.2 22110 NVMe SSD lines. The new versions both come with 800GB of storage. On top of that, the company is expanding its network card line with two new additions as well, the Synology E10G21-F2 and E25G21-F2.

Today Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation announced new 18TB HDDs in its Toshiba MG09 Series. According to the company, the MG09 Series features Toshiba’s third-generation, 9-disk Helium-sealed design, and Toshiba’s innovative Flux Control – Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (FC-MAMR) technology, to advance Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) density to 2TB per disk, achieving a total

StorCentric announced the latest in the Violin QV-Series, the Violin QV1020. The QV1020 is an all NVMe storage array that is said to be simple, cost-effective, and provide high performance. The QV1020 adds to the Violin QV-Series that already had the QV2020 and now they can reach more businesses of various sizes. Though there is