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
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Microsoft 365 leverages AMD EPYC VMs for higher performance. MemSQL changes name to SingleStore. OWC acquires BRU. Ivanti updates its Unified Endpoint Manager. Nasuni named a Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop Partner. TEAMGROUP
Today the US subsidiary of OVHcloud (OVHcloud US) announced the mouthful that is the OVHcloud Managed Bare Metal Essentials powered by VMware. The company states that this is a first of its kind, managed Bare metal infrastructure. On top of the infrastructure, the company upgraded its highly customizable bare metal servers and offered them with
Today KIOXIA America, Inc. continued its push into PCIe Gen4 SSDs for the data center with the introduction of the KIOXIA XD6 Series. This SSD series is a Datacenter SSD Form Factor (EDSFF) E1.S. The form factor and the design of the SS are made to address the specific requirements of hyperscale applications, including the
Today QNAP Systems announced that it has updated the operating system for its QuTS hero NAS line with QuTS hero h4.5.1 NAS operating system. The latest update is all about enhancements and improvements including support for WORM (Write Once, Read Many) auto-committing, VM live migration, Wi-Fi WPA2 Enterprise, Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Index Engines release CyberSense Software. DH2i’s DxOdyssey for IoT Available in the Azure Marketplace. Catalogic expands coverage to Kubernetes and Cloud. WekaIO announces cloud-native, unified storage solutions. AppDynamics releases new capabilities. Quest
It its apparent quest to buy all the storage companies, StorCentric announced that it has acquired Violin Systems. With this acquisition, StorCentric adds software-defined NVMe, high-performance storage to its portfolio. This rounds out the enterprise workload demands, making StorCentric more of a one-stop-shop.
This week, Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announced the general availability of AWS Nitro Enclaves. AWS Nitro Enclaves makes it easy for customers to create isolated compute environments within Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to protect their highly sensitive workloads. Nitro Enclaves uses the same Nitro Hypervisor technology that provides CPU and memory
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