Today the Lenovo Data Center Group announced new ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions that support the recently announced AMD EPYC 7003 or 3rd generation EPYC processors. The new solutions also include ThinkAgile HX (with Nutanix) and ThinkAgile VX (with VMware vSAN) both of which will be powered by the new processors. Lenovo will

With the announcement of the new AMD EPYC 7003 processors earlier in the week the major vendors have begun adding their support. Today is Dell Technologies’ turn as they announce a refresh of their Dell EMC PowerEdge server portfolio, starting with the new Dell EMC PowerEdge XE8545. The refresh is said to bring adaptive compute

With the announcement today of the latest generation of AMD EPYC 7003 processors, the major vendors will be rolling out support in the form of new systems, quite a few actually. In just servers alone, HPE introduced 3rd generation of AMD EPYC or EPYC 7003 support in the HPE ProLiant DL325 Gen10 Plus v2 server,

The “March to Milan” is finally at an end, as the release of AMD EPYC 7003 is here, and along with it, a slew of new information on the next-gen CPU release. The new EPYC CPUs are a technical feat in the processor world, building on the success of the first two versions by posting

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. Quantum releases reference architecture for surveillance. Qumulo integrates with Commvault. AWS announces One Zone storage. WekaIO awarded three new patents. Virtium releases StorFly Series 6 SSDs. CTERA launches remote work suite.

Today NetApp announced the general availability of NetApp Astra, formally known as Project Astra, on Google Cloud. Astra is said to be a fully managed application-aware data management service built for Kubernetes workloads. The service allows businesses to protect, recover, and move applications deployed on Kubernetes with no software to download, install, manage, or upgrade.

Today VMware Inc, announced updates to its two most popular solutions, VMware vSphere 7 and vSAN 7 Update 2. The updates are aimed to help IT teams support new and existing applications with infrastructure that is developer and AI-ready; scales without compromise; boosts infrastructure and data security, and simplifies operations. More specifically vSphere 7 U2

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. Dell Technologies reported fourth-quarter and full-year Earnings. Nexsan Assureon Cloud Edition announced. Robin.io supports IBM Cloud Satellite. KIOXIA is now sampling what they call the world’s thinnest 1TB UFS 3.1. OpenDrives

Yesterday Chris Mellor ran a story about NetApp phasing out its HCI appliance, the original article can be found here. This comes as no shock at all as most of the major vendors seem to be moving in the direction of getting more away from hardware and into software/cloud-based products and services. The NetApp HCI