With 2020 being all-around awful and a pandemic raging in most of the world, all the trade shows have been trying out the virtual thing with varying levels of success. KubeCon 2020 has suffered the same fate, and like other virtual shows, this one feels a bit subdued as well. Not surprising considering the interruption

QNAP Systems has announced the immediate availability of the TVS-h1288X and TVS-h1688X enterprise QuTS hero NAS, both of which are highlighted by their Intel Xeon W-1250 processor (six-core 3.3 GHz, burst up to 4.7 GHz) and up to 128 GB DDR4 ECC memory. Built for bandwidth-heavy storage use cases as well as dynamic creative workflows

Dell Technologies is introducing the EXF900, a new appliance to the Dell EMC ECS EX-Series lineup. Key features of this new all-flash appliance include high performance and flexible deployment. The company indicates that the object storage market is primed for a revolution based on object storage advantages, including scalability, flexibility, API-driven cloud-native architectures, and more. This

Today during KubeCon, KIOXIA announced that its popular storage software, KumoScale, has added new features to support containers and applications managed by the Kubernetes framework. The features will bring NVMe-oF performance to Kubernetes, for quite the performance bump. KIOXIA will be demonstrating the new features of KumoScale at the virtual KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America

Today at SC20 NVIDIA announced that its popular A100 GPU will see a doubling of high-bandwidth memory with the unveiling of the NVIDIA A100 80GB GPU. This new GPU will be the innovation powering the new NVIDIA HGX AI supercomputing platform. With twice the memory, the new GPU hopes to help researchers and engineers hit

Today at SC20 NVIDIA announced its AI data-center-in-a-box with the NVIDIA DGX Station A100. This marks the second generation of the DGX and claims to be the world’s only petascale integrated AI workgroup server. This server comes with up to 320GB of GPU memory and can fit under a desk.

Today at SC20, AMD launched what it is boldly proclaiming as the world’s fastest HPC accelerator for scientific research with the AMD Instinct MI100. They may be correct as they claim this to be the first x86 server GPU to surpass the 10 teraflops (FP64) performance barrier. The company is combing the new GPUs with

Today at SC20, NVIDIA announced the next generation of its NVIDIA Mellanox 400G InfiniBand. This acceleration platform is all about giving AI developers and scientific researchers the fastest networking performance available to take on the world’s most challenging problems. With the seventh generation of Mellanox InfiniBand is stated as delivering the ultra-low latency and doubles

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.