Today QNAP Systems, Inc. released the latest version of its NAS operating system with QNAP QTS 4.5.2. The updates released today surround enhancements of SNMP for network device monitoring and support for Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) and Intel QuickAssist Technology (Intel QAT) passthrough to virtual machines (VMs). Also announced today was the company’s QXG-100G2SF-E810

Today WekaIO announced what it refers to as a simple, fast, and scalable platform for running modern enterprise workloads, the WekaIO Limitless Data Platform. This new platform is about accelerating business outcomes and improving productivity in the hybrid cloud. The company states that its new platform is ideal for workloads such as artificial intelligence/machine learning

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. NAKIVO introduces v10.2. Quantum announces new hybrid storage arrays. Backblaze 2020 drive stats are available. Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.6 released. Eaton Power Xpert SPD released. SUSE supports Longhorn 1.1.

Today Synology Inc. introduced three new RackStation units. These units are aimed at backup, virtualization storage, and remote work solutions. In a slightly unusual move for the company, they have also released the HAT5300 series of enterprise hard drives or Synology HDDs. These high-capacity SATA drives are specifically designed for Synology deployments.

NVIDIA has slowly but surely dominated the enterprise GPU market. In recent years, GPUs have become increasingly important and sit right alongside the CPU in necessity. NVIDIA last year introduced a new processing unit with the data processing unit or DPU. Where going to look at the three here to see what’s the difference and

Today Dell Technologies announced enhancements to its VxRail portfolio. The company released two new platforms that leverage AMD EPYC CPUs, the Dell EMC VxRail P Series, VxRail P675F and P675N. Not only do these new hyperconverged platforms leverage the fast CPUs, but they also support NVIDIA Tesla T4 and NVIDIA Tesla V100S GPUs.

Today HP announced new insights-driven services all around easing IT workloads and keeping employees productive. The three main services are HP Active Care for proactive device support and maintenance; HP Proactive Insights for intelligent fleet monitoring; and HP Proactive Endpoint Management for multi-OS, endpoint management. This builds off of the announcement the company made at

This week DataCore Software announced that it has acquired Caringo, Inc. This acquisition adds object storage to DataCore’s software-defined portfolio. According to DataCore, they will be a single vendor that can offer complete, best-of-breed software-defined storage solutions for block, file, and object. The acquisition also added talent and customers from Caringo.

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