NVIDIA made another major acquisition with the announcement of the definitive agreement to acquire Arm. Last year, NVIDIA acquired Mellanox for just under $7 billion. Now, for an additional $40 billion, NVIDIA has its own full-stack.
Scality All-Flash RING8 Announced
Today, Scality announced a new release of its RING object storage software platform and shared a few performance metrics when running on an all-flash cluster. Scality was founded in 2009. The company has two primary products. The first is RING, the object storage software platform which is the focus of today’s article. RING is currently
News Bits: AMD, Nutanix, Cloudian, LTO, & Quantum
This week’s News Bits, our 100th, we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. AMD EPYC Secure Encryption Virtualization VM are now generally available on Google Compute Engine. Nutanix partners with Azure and releases new products. Cloudian introduces flash-optimized software. LTO Program releases specifications for the upcoming
QNAP TS-x32PXU Series NAS Now Available
QNAP has announced the TS-x32PXU series Rackmount NAS designed for SMB IT staff who need to deploy high-performance hybrid-cloud environments for digital transformation projects. Available in 4-bay, 8-bay and 12-bay models, the TS-x32PXU comes equipped with a PCIe Gen2 x2 slot for flexible SSD caching with a QM2 card or adding network ports. It also
Synology DS1621xs+ Launched
Today Synology Inc. launched a new powerful NAS with the release of the DiskStation DS1621xs+. The Synology DS1621xs+ is a tower NAS with a quad-core Intel Xeon processor, ECC memory, and onboard 10GbE. Quite a powerful release for Synology.
Chenbro RB238G13-U04 Hybrid Storage System Now Available
Chenbro has announced the RB238G13-U04 Hybrid Storage System, the newest addition to their NVMe server line-up. Slotted under the Chenbro barebone servers category, this new 2U server features a dual-socket Intel Xeon scalable processor server board and can be configured as a 24-bay hot-swappable hybrid flash array solution with 4 NVMe drives (compared to the
Commvault Intelligent Data Management Expanded
Today, Commvault announced additions to its Intelligent Data Management Portfolio. Commvault says that Commvault Disaster Recovery, Commvault Backup & Recovery, and Commvault Complete Data Protection are all now in general availability (GA). When Commvault announced this release last July, we noted that Commvault already offers very similar-sounding services.
HPE MSA Gen 6 Announced
Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced the latest generation of its HPE Modular Smart Array (MSA), HPE MSA Gen 6. This new generation is an entry-level hybrid-flash storage solution for small to medium businesses that leans toward performance and automation with a friendlier SMB budget. The new MSA can also be used to easily backup
VMware Announced its 5G Telco Cloud Platform
VMware has announced its 5G Telco Cloud Platform, a cloud-first network architecture, to accelerate 5G and edge innovation. VMware expanded its 5G Telco Cloud Portfolio with this solution, aiming to deliver service agility, operational consistency, and integrated lifecycle management automation from infrastructure up to network services. This new Telco Cloud solution will allow Communication Service
News Bits: Dell, Toshiba, Cloudian, Diamanti, GigaSpaces, Quest, OWC, & AWS
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
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