AWS has announced S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Access Tiers and several new storage features and updates as a part of the second-ever AWS Storage Day. The updates aim to lower customers’ costs and improve performance, management, and integration for several AWS storage services. These services include Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Amazon, Amazon FSx for Lustre and

Xilinx, Inc. has partnered with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to release the Samsung SmartSSD Computational Storage Drive (CSD) or Samsung SmartSSD CSD for short. This drive is stated as being the industry’s first adaptable computational storage platform providing the performance, customization, and scalability required by data-intensive applications. Xilinx will be showcasing the SmartSSD CSD at

Today, HPE announced additional Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) subscription configurations through their Greenlake brand. HPE has been offering IT-as-a-Service for the last three years under the Greenlake brand name. Greenlake Central is a new software platform that is supposed to unify their existing offerings by providing customers a single software platform they can use to

Today, Quantum announced that it would soon be releasing StorNext 7. The company also announced plans to introduce Quantum ATFS and expand their ActiveScale line before the end of the month. Quantum got its start in 1980 as a disk drive manufacturer. In 2001, they sold their manufacturing division to Maxtor (which was later bought

Today KIOXIA America, Inc. announced its latest PCIe Gen4 SSD with the KIOXIA XG7/XG7-P Series. This new PCIe Gen4 SSD is for OEMs that supply drives for notebooks, desktops, and workstations. With this announcement, KIOXIA now has PCIe Gen4 drives across the enterprise, data center, and client space.

Today Micron Technology, Inc. announced that it is shipping, in bulk, the world’s first 176-Layer 3D NAND. 176-Layer would be the densest on the market allowing for potentially more capacity in a smaller footprint ideal for mobile, automotive, client devices as well as the data center. The new NAND will go through both Micron and

Today, Western Digital released one new 2TB NVMe SSD for the WD Blue SN550. The company also announced three other NVMe drives that are currently in development. Western Digital was founded 50 years ago as General Digital. Since then, it has become a household name, providing digital storage devices for everything from home use to

Dell Technologies has announced new Dell EMC Ready Solutions and HPC cloud service provider partnerships. The strategy seeks to help customers accelerate advanced computing and AI to drive innovation in healthcare, life sciences, and manufacturing. Dell Technologies’ expanded portfolio consists of Ready Solution for HPC Genomics, Ready Solution for Digital Manufacturing with Altair Hyperworks Unlimited,

Today, Qumulo released a new data encryption service they are calling Qumulo Secure. Qumulo also announced several other new services they expect to release before the end of the calendar year. Qumulo provides a distributed file system for network-attached storage (NAS) that offers customers tremendous flexibility in deployment. Earlier this year, we reviewed Qumulo’s software