This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Dell announces second-quarter earnings. Toshiba releases a new Canvio lineup. Cloudian announces a strong first half of 2020. Diamanti announces GA of Spektra 3.0. GigaSpaces announces InsightEdge version 15.5. Quest Acquires Binary Tree. OWC

This week, Rick Vanover from Veeam visite4d the StorageReview lab in Cincinnati for a live stream to talk ransomware. We can’t go more than a few days with hearing about another breach or attempted breach. And this isn’t just a problem that targets large organizations like Tesla and Garmin. Small professional offices are just as

In an announcement earlier today, Lenovo called remote work the “new, smarter normal.” To help companies deal with remote work being the new normal, Lenovo also announced plans for improvements and additions to most of their ThinkAgile Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) lines, some of which won’t be available until near the end of the year.

Today, the Arm company announced the Arm Cortex-R82. The Cortex-R82 will be Arm’s first 64-bit, Linux-capable Cortex-R processor and will join several other already existing Cortex-R processors. This is said to be the company’s first Cortex-R processors to implement the Armv8-R AArch64 architecture. Arm was founded in 1990. The Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group is the current owner

Today NETGEAR Inc. released its latest router system aimed at the SMB market with the Orbi Pro WiFi 6 (SXK80). This Tri-band Mesh system comes with a single router and a single satellite but can be expanded up to 6 satellites total. As the name implies, this new system delivers WiFi 6, which includes greater

This week NVIDIA announced its new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series graphic cards. The new cards are powered by Ampere and feature faster 2nd gen Ray Tracing Cores, faster 3rd gen Tensor Cores, and new streaming multiprocessors. These new cards are all aimed at gamers and creators and are said to bring better visuals, faster

TEAMGROUP has released the QX, the industry’s largest consumer-grade 2.5” SATA SSD to date with a massive 15.3TB in capacity. The QX SSD leverages the latest 3D QLC flash memory and features up to 2,560 TBW, which is also the highest we’ve seen. The new SSD from TEAMGROUP also supports smart dual Cache, including SLC

Today, Broadcom Inc. announced the release of Emulex SAN Manager, an enterprise solution to simplify HBA management and remediate network performance problems. The Emulex SAN Manager tool will enable server and storage administrators to troubleshoot and resolve network issues in their environment through an easy to use interface. Administrators will be allowed to manage HBAs

Today NETGEAR Inc. announced the release of four new Gigabit unmanaged PoE switches. These new switches include the GS516PP, GS524PP, GS516UP and GS524UP two 16-port and two 24-port models that can be rackmounted or desktop mounted. The new switch models are great for plug-and-play high-density PoE+ and PoE++ installations.