Today Micron Technology announced that it is shipping its new Micron 1α DRAM products in volume. 1α, or 1-alpha, is said to be the most advanced DRAM process technology and offering major improvements in bit density, power, and performance. This new DRAM will be shipped out across Micron’s portfolio from data centers, mobile devices, to

Today NVIDIA announced a new program for OEMs to help them on their AI/ML journey, the NVIDIA-Certified Systems program. This program will help to speed AI and data analytics for systems that leverage NVIDIA GPUs (which at this point is most of the major players) and Mellanox networks. The initial rollout will cover companies such

Today Veritas Technologies announced the launch of Veritas NetBackup 9. This is the first major update of the company’s backup and recovery suite in four years. Veritas states that this new update is set to provide customers with additional choices for deployment across edge, core, and cloud while increasing operational simplicity.

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. Aerospike Connector for Presto hits general availability. Data Dynamics Releases StorageX 8.4. TerraMaster Released TOS 4.2. VAST Data and NVIDIA announce new reference architecture. OVHcloud teams up with IBM and Atempo

Today, Dell Technologies announced its Dell EMC PowerStore metro node. Dell EMC PowerStore is the companies midrange storage array that is stated to be up to seven times faster. The newly announced metro node is aimed at addressing business continuity challenges.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Clumio gains ISO 27701 certification. Red Kubes announces Otomi Container platform. WekaIO celebrates a strong year. Microchip begins production of 24G SAS/PCIe Gen 4 Tri-mode storage controllers. Seagate CORTX hits GA. Veritas

CES 2021 went all digital this year, as several other shows have in the past ten months or so. While we covered some of the larger stories our readers would be interested in from Dell, Lenovo (here and here as well), NETGEAR, Kingston, Phison, and Supermicro, there were other stories we wanted to touch on

Today Synology Inc. launched two new RackStation units powered by AMD processors, the RS1221+ and RS1221RP+. Both of the new devices are 8-bay NAS, that as the name implies, are rack-mounted. The units are 2U and aimed at the small-business sector.

Today GIGABYTE Technology announced a highly dense storage server with the ability to hit over 400TB in 2U, the GIGABYTE S251-3O0. In order to do this, the server has up to 26 drive bays and seven expansion slots. The S251-3O0 is an Intel Xeon-based server and is aimed at software-defined storage, big data, virtualization, and