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

Today QNAP Systems Inc. released the latest beta to its NAS operating system, QNAP QTS 5.0 Beta. Part of the beta release is an upgraded Linux Kernel 5.10. The other features the beta will be bringing are improved security, WireGuard VPN support, and enhanced NVMe SSD cache performance.

Summer is here, it’s hot, and the big companies are still swallowing up the smaller guys. In this case, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced that it has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Zerto. This deal is reported to be for about $374 million. Zerto will be integrated into HPE GreenLake.

Today at the 2021 International Supercomputing Conference, Intel announced that its 3rd gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors are now powering supercomputers and high-performance computing (HPC) systems. The new CPU, codenamed Intel Sapphire Rapids, integrates with high Bandwidth memory (HBM). Intel says this will be ideal for working in HPC and with AI. Other announcements today