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.
Today, HP announced its new and updated line of Z products, ranging from the tiny Z2 Mini G5 to the ZCentral 4R, a very powerful 1U system designed to be a turn-key remote workstation solution. There’s a lot of products to get through, but the overarching theme is a real focus on remote setups and
Today Broadcom Inc. announced the release of the Brocade X7 Directors and G720 Switch, what they are calling the industry’s first Gen 7 64Gb/s Fibre Channel switching platforms. These platforms are said to be foundational infrastructure for the on-demand data center that can enable an autonomous SAN. The company also announced the first 64Gb/s Fibre
Today, Seagate updated its IronWolf line of Network Attached Storage (NAS) drives. The changes include adding two new SATA SSD (Solid-State Drives) and a new, larger 18TB HDD (Hard Disk Drive). It’s impressive to see them adding another 2TB to their largest drives just a year after they released their 16TB models. It’s even more
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Scality announces strong numbers for the first half of 2020. AWS announces New EBS io2 volumes. Snowflake files IPO. Canonical offers full Kubernetes 1.19 support. KIOXIA launches Gen4 U.3 SSDs for HPE. EnGenius announces
Today TEAMGROUP announced two new SSD lines with two different form factors and interfaces. On the M.2 and NVMe side, the company launched the MP33 PRO M.2 PCIe Solid State Drive with 2280 form factor and PCIe Gen3x4 interface. On the SATA and 2.5” side of things, TEAMGROUP launched the CX1 and CX2 series with
Cohesity announced some major software changes to the Cohesity DataPlatform. These changes and advancements are all about bringing modern data management capabilities to all-flash solutions from key alliance partners, specifically Cisco and HPE. The software has added I/O Boost technology that the company says will provide even greater data consolidation, lowers total cost of ownership
Today, the Kubernetes team officially released version 1.19 of the most popular open-source container-orchestration system. The 1.19 release boasts 34 enhancements despite the disruption caused by COVID-19. 9 of the enhancements are Alpha enhancements, 15 are in Beta stage, and the remaining 10 are Stable. The draft release notes from a few hours before the
QNAP Systems has announced the availability of the rackmount TS-x73AU, an enterprise NAS family highlighted by its high-performance and energy-efficient AMD Ryzen Embedded V1000 series V1500B 4-core/8-thread, 2.2GHz processors. It also features dual-port 2.5GbE transmission and PCIe expansion, and comes in 8, 12 and 16-bay models with both single and redundant power supply options.
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