As part of the run-up to CES, Dell has shared information on a slew of new computers and monitors with us. Dell scheduled all of these new devices to be released sometime this year. A few are even slated for release later this month. Recognizing that most companies have moved to predominately working from home,

Google has announced Confidential Computing virtual machines (VMs) on the Google Compute Engine, powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYC processors’ security. Within the disclosure, Google declared they had completed the rollout of Confidential Computing to general availability in nine regions; made possible to partners such as AMD, Red Hat, SUSE, Thales, and others. Confidential Computing can provide

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. TerraMaster launches U4-111 enterprise-class storage server. Bamboo Systems granted new patent. QNAP expands its switch portfolio. Datadobi and Wasabi announce a partnership. Excelero announces support for next-gen Intel Optane. WekaIO and Rancher

iXsystems officially launched its TrueCommand Cloud. With this cloud-based service, it is ideal for managed and unmanaged solution providers alike. The solution comes with a cost being very reasonable (Subscriptions start at $10 per month for managing up to 50 drives) and the ability TrueNAS can use Cloud storage services (S3, Backblaze, Azure, and many

At the Intel Memory and Storage 2020 event, the company announced the next-gen Intel Optane devices. This includes new SSDs for data centers, Intel Optane SSD P5800X, and for client use with the Intel Optane Memory H20. The company rolled out the 3rd generation of its Intel Optane persistent memory for cloud and enterprise customers.

Today NetApp announced a new object storage device for smaller environments with the NetApp StorageGRID SG100. The SG100 will be a turnkey solution for object stores that leverages the StorageGRID admin and gateway node software. This software also includes StorageGRID load balancer, what the company calls a critical component to operating object storage.

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) has released a major new version of its storage solution benchmark, designed to help IT managers make better purchasing, configuration and optimization decisions.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Cisco Acquires Slido and IMImobile. Atempo updates Tina and Miria. Arcserve X Series released. XenData launches two LTO appliances. AWS announced new storage instances at re:Invent. Firebolt launches with $37 million in

QNAP Systems has announced the immediate availability of the TS-832PX, the company’s newest 8-bay NAS highlighted by two 10GbE SFP+, 2.5GbE RJ45 ports and a PCIe Gen2 x2 slot for added flexibility. The TS-832PX also supports multi-cloud backup, cloud storage gateways, remote access, AI photo management and others to help small businesses build an effective