This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. QNAP launches QuCPE Series. Seagate releases Game Drive for Xbox Halo: Master Chief Limited Edition. Samsung announced PCIe Gen4 drives. Catalogic Software launches CloudCasa. Scale Computing adds NVIDIA GPUs to its HC3.
Today GIGABYTE Technology announced the release of new GPU-centric servers. These new servers include the G482-Z53, G482-Z54, and G292-Z43 and are focused on HPC, AI, scientific simulation and modeling. The servers leverage the AMD EPYC architecture and can have up to eight GPUs in PCIe Gen 4 x16 lanes while still having room left over
Today, SonicWall announced four new firewalls, the NSa (note that the ‘a’ is not capitalized) 2700, the TZ270, TZ370, and TZ470. The new firewalls are in addition to the two other x70 firewalls, the TZ570 and the TZ670, they announced earlier this year. SonicWall was founded in 1991. SonicWall was a Dell subsidiary from 2012
Today Dell Technologies introduced the new Dell EMC PowerProtect DP series of integrated appliances. Along with the new appliance series, the company also announced new PowerProtect Data Manager software advancements. Both of these announcements are aimed at helping customers protect, manage and recover data from traditional and modern applications across core data centers, edge locations
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
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