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Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

Western Digital Expands WD_BLACK Gaming Portfolio

Today Western Digital expanded its gaming portfolio, WD_BLACK, with even more drives and a gaming dock. These new products include a PCIe Gen4 SSD, the WD_BLACK SN850, an AIC NVMe SSD, the WD_BLACK AN1500, and the aforementioned dock, the WD_BLACK D50 Game Dock. All the new devices leverage the NVMe interface and bring new speeds

OpenDrives Atlas 2.1
Enterprise  ◇  Software

OpenDrives Atlas 2.1 Released

Today OpenDrives launched the latest version of their software platform and file system that powers all OpenDrives storage solutions, OpenDrives Atlas 2.1. The company claims the new version will enable a scale-out storage architecture to accelerate performance, power, and flexibility of OpenDrives’ storage lineup. This lineup would include the recently announced OpenDrives Ultra Hardware platform.

Marvell NVMe RAID Accelerator
Accessories  ◇  Enterprise

Marvell Introduces Industry’s First Native NVMe RAID 1 Accelerator

This week, Marvell introduced the industry’s first native NVMe RAID 1 accelerator targeting virtualized, multi-tenant cloud, and enterprise data center environments. The first of Marvell’s partners to support this new accelerator is Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), in the HPE NS204i-p NVMe OS Boot Device. It is offered on select HPE ProLiant servers and HPE Apollo

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Veeam Acquires Kasten

Veeam announced that it has acquired the data backup, disaster recovery and mobility platform for Kubernetes, Kasten. Kasten has been in the container/Kubernetes space for almost three years. Kasten was acquired through cash and stock and the deal is said to be roughly $150 million dollars in value.

Dell PowerEdge XE
Enterprise  ◇  Server

Dell EMC PowerEdge XE Line Expanded

Today, Dell Technologies announced their largest PowerEdge XE to date. More than twice the size of the existing PowerEdges, the PowerEdge XE7100 is a massive 5U and, at 911mm long, uses the full depth of standard server rack cabinets. Dell Technologies has been Dell and Dell EMC’s parent company ever since Dell acquired EMC in

Rancher 2.5
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Rancher Labs Launches Rancher 2.5

Today Rancher Labs released the latest version of its eponymous software with the release of Rancher 2.5. Being a Kubernetes management platform, the latest upgrades and capabilities are going to surround Kubernetes including an enhanced single cluster management experience, application deployment at scale expanded, expanded cloud distribution support, and a new security hardened, certified Kubernetes

Metallic Cloud Storage
Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Commvault Announces Metallic Cloud Storage Service

Today, Commvault announced the availability of Metallic Cloud Storage Service. The new storage service will act as a fully integrated cloud storage target for Commvault Backup and Recovery software and HyperScale X appliance. According to Commvault, using the cloud as a backup target can help increase protection against ransomware and provide additional airgapping and security

Supermicro NIDIA A100
Enterprise  ◇  Server

Supermicro Expands A100 GPU Capacity

Today after NVIDIA made several GPU-related announcements at its annual GTC event, Supermicro did what it does bests, announcing hardware support for the latest innovation to hit the market. In this case, Supermicro announced that it has expanded its new 4U server to support up to eight NVIDIA HGX A100 GPUs. The company also has

Enterprise  ◇  Software

NVIDIA Omniverse Open Beta Announced

Today at their GTC 2020 Event, NVIDIA announced a new real-time collaborative platform with the NVIDIA Omniverse. The platform hit open beta today with a download expected to be available later in the fall. The new platform will allow several creative fields to collaborate including those that work in photorealism and 3D simulation.

NVIDIA RTX A6000
Client Accessories  ◇  Consumer

NVIDIA RTX A6000 & A40 Announced

Today, NVIDIA announced two new Workstation GPUs as part of the new Ampere architecture, the same architecture as the highly revered RTX 3080 and RTX 3090. The new NVIDIA RTX A6000 and A40 feature new RT Cores, Tensor Cores, and CUDA cores that accelerate graphics, rendering, compute, and AI significantly faster than previous generations. Despite