Today NETGEAR Inc. released its latest router system aimed at the SMB market with the Orbi Pro WiFi 6 (SXK80). This Tri-band Mesh system comes with a single router and a single satellite but can be expanded up to 6 satellites total. As the name implies, this new system delivers WiFi 6, which includes greater

This week NVIDIA announced its new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series graphic cards. The new cards are powered by Ampere and feature faster 2nd gen Ray Tracing Cores, faster 3rd gen Tensor Cores, and new streaming multiprocessors. These new cards are all aimed at gamers and creators and are said to bring better visuals, faster

TEAMGROUP has released the QX, the industry’s largest consumer-grade 2.5” SATA SSD to date with a massive 15.3TB in capacity. The QX SSD leverages the latest 3D QLC flash memory and features up to 2,560 TBW, which is also the highest we’ve seen. The new SSD from TEAMGROUP also supports smart dual Cache, including SLC

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