Today at CES 2021, an all-digital event, Kingston Technology laid out its new NVMe SSD lineup. The lineup includes a new Gen4 drive, new Gen3 drives, an external SSD, and a data center SSD. Kingston also announced and showcased its new Workflow station and readers.

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. NETGEAR made several business announcements for CES. Computex achieves Nutanix Cloud Champion Status. BackupAssist partners with Wasabi. SingleStore adds AWS Glue.

Today, Lenovo announced its first round of new and updated products for CES 2021. In this announcement, we have the IdeaPad 5G with a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and modem, as well as next-gen AMD and Intel 14 and 16-inch laptops, carrying the “Pro” moniker. We have the Yoga AIO 7 all-in-one with a 4K 27-inch

During the Intel Memory and Storage Moment 2020, Intel shared performance numbers for the Optane persistent memory 200 series in a DAOS instance. These preliminary performance numbers are based on the 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable architecture with Intel Optane PMem 100 Series vs. the Intel Optane PMem 200 Series running in brand new system design. DAOS

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.