This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. NAKIVO releases Backup & Replication v10.1. Retrospect Announces Retrospect Backup 17.5. OWC Introduces Mercury Pro LTO. Cisco Intersight is now integrated with Hitachi Storage

Supermicro is claiming to be the first in the industry to hit the market with a 1U NEBS Level 3 certified server. This server is designed for 5G, edge, AI, VR, and AR use cases. Fully loaded up with four NVIDIA V100 or V100S Tensor Core GPUs lets this diminutive server hit up to 2,560

Back at the beginning of the year, Seagate unveiled its Lyve Drive Mobile system, of modular storage for enterprise, cloud, and edge. Today at their Datasphere Virtual Conference the company announced an open, flexible converged infrastructure, Seagate Lyve Drive Rack. Seagate also announced CORTX, a hardware-agnostic open-source object storage software, as well as a corresponding

KIOXIA America, Inc. announced new direct-attached, network-attached devices with the KIOXIA Ethernet SSD Storage. This didn’t solely come from KIOXIA, they have been working with several players in the industry including Marvell, Foxconn-Ingrasys and Accton. These companies are working together to bring Ethernet Bunch of Flash (EBOF) technology solutions to market, this announcement being the

Today at the intel Industrial Summit 2020, the company wanted to highlight some of its products and how it would tackle the rapidly evolving world of internet of things (IoT). This was a bit of a mixture of new and older products that can now be leveraged for AI, security, functional safety, and real-time capabilities,

Today, Lenovo announced an expansion of its Linux portfolio, extending its certification program that was announced in June to include ThinkPad and ThinkStations preinstalled with Canonical’s Ubuntu LTS. Previously only accessible to enterprise customers through custom orders, a full range of PCs will now be available with Ubuntu pre-installed right from Lenovo’s website. These include

Today, Western Digital (WD) announced additions to its family of WD Purple storage solutions. The new additions consist of an 18TB HDD and a 1TB microSD, both due out later this year. The gold line got 18TB HDDs a few months ago as well. Western Digital was founded 50 years ago as General Digital. Since

Today, MemVerge announced the general availability of their “Memory Machine” software. Like most MemVerge software, their “Memory Machine” software is intended to work with Intel Optane persistent memory to provide a software-defined memory pool. MemVerge was founded in August 2017, shortly after Intel released its Optane SSDs. MemVerge’s primary product used to be Memory-Converged Infrastructure

Today, along with their updated Purple drives, Western Digital has announced two new massive HDD releases, the WD Red Pro 16TB, and 18TB drives. Purpose-built for medium to large-scale business customers and support for up to 24-bay NAS systems, the new Red Pro drives are engineered with CMR recording technology at 7200RPM, allowing them to