Intel has been looking to bring the 10nm architecture to the table for a while now, and that day has finally arrived with the launch of the company’s new 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable CPUs, code-named Ice Lake. Looking at raw numbers, Intel is the world’s most broadly deployed data center processor (over 1 billion deployed

Last summer VMware released the ESXi Arm fling, a little bit of code designed to help bring ESXi to non-traditional deployments. We took a look at the fling and put together a guide on how to install the Arm fling on a Raspberry Pi. Now, VMware has punched out another update to the fling, posting

Today VMware unveiled its distributed, multi-cloud platform that enables organizations to accelerate application modernization across the data center, edge, and any cloud, VMware Cloud. A unique benefit to VMware Cloud is that it allows developers to build and deploy to any cloud. The platform gives users a way to modernize their infrastructure and operations in

Today Fungible announced what it is calling, the Fungible Data Center. This solution is said to be a comprehensive, turnkey that offers a multi-tenant, secure data center solution. The main thrust of the solution is to transform data centers from rigid, complex, and expensive silos into simple, highly efficient, and on-demand powerhouses. Fungible states that

Pure Storage has marked its fifth anniversary of introducing FlashBlade, exhibiting a remarkable $1B in sales. FlashBlade, unveiled in March 2016, has a rapid growth and impact in the storage industry. According to the company, this platform is used by more than 25% of the Fortune 100. Pure Storage is considered a pioneer in delivering

In this week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. SonicWall expands its firewall lineup. Scality updates RING8. Alluxio integrates with RAPIDS Accelerator for Apache Spark 3.0. Aerospike announces Kubernetes Operator. Hammerspace 4.6 is available in AWS Marketplace. StarWind launches free

In this week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. GIGABYTE announces support for AMD EPYC 7003. NETGEAR announces the new Nighthawk Mesh MK83 router. NetApp launches Spot Wave. AWS announced new EC2 instances. TEAMGROUP T-CREATE line announced. Diamanti announces Spektra

Of all the technologies in the datacenter, none are evolving more rapidly than network connectivity. 20 years ago, 1GbE networking was considered exotic, and the infrastructure required to support it (e.g., NICs, switches, and cables) were expensive and rare. Three years ago, 10GbE networks were state-of-the-art, but now 20, 40, and even 100GbE networks have

Today Dell Technologies announced a major refresh of its popular Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio with 17 new models. This refresh comes on the heels of the AMD EPYC 7003 processor announcement earlier this week and before the third-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors (Ice Lake) coming soon. The refresh will contain Dell EMC PowerEdge C6525,