This week, Cisco has made two big announcements concerning the hybrid data center solutions, the next generation of Cisco’s Cloud Scale ASIC, and a new 400G line card for their Nexus 9500 modular chassis. With these two products, Cisco is making improvements in the capacity and manageability of their Nexus switching platforms and aims to

Today, Lenovo is launching the next generation of its Thinkpad P Series mobile workstations in the ThinkPad P15, ThinkPad P17, ThinkPad P1 Gen 3 and the ThinkPad P15v. All of these new machines will come equipped with Intel’s latest 10th gen H series mobile CPUs and what Lenovo is calling Ultra Performance Mode, a setting

QNAP has announced that its dual-port 16Gb/32Gb Fibre Channel (FC) expansion cards now support the latest QuTS hero NAS. With the QNAP FC card installed, a QuTS hero NAS can easily integrate into existing FC SAN environments, providing high-performance storage and backup at a lower cost compared to other SAN devices. QNAP stresses that a

KIOXIA America has announced the KIOXIA PM6 Series 6th-generation enterprise SAS SSD family, making it the first company to bring 24G SAS to server and storage applications. Built for modern IT infrastructures that have 24×7 enterprise workloads, 24G SAS doubles the data throughput compared to the previous gen and adds new features and enhancements.

Today Dell Technologies announced its latest storage family to combine storage software and server hardware, Dell EMC PowerScale. This technological combination aims to set the standard on how companies capture and capitalize on unstructured data, such as documents, images, videos, and, important in this modern age, social media content. PowerScale can be used elastically by

VMware has announced the intention to acquire Lastline, a cybersecurity company and breach detection platform provider. VMware is a provider of cloud computing and virtualization software and services. With this addition, VMware is looking to enhance its SDN network virtualization and security platform, NSX. The company affirms that the partnership is a step forward for

Silicon Power has announced the US70 SSD, which is highlighted by its PCIe Gen 4×4 interface (backwards-compatibility with PCIe 3.0), 3D NAND flash memory, and NVMe 1.3 support. Built specifically for gamers, professional designers/editors, and prosumers looking for a new high-speed storage solution, the US70 is quoted with impressive read and write speeds up to

NetApp has begun offering a new, smaller HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) appliance. Previously, the smallest HCI configuration NetApp supported used six total nodes, making both space and cost a concern for many potential customers. By reducing the minimum number of nodes needed to form a cluster, NetApp hopes to reach new markets. Today’s announcement comes hot

In a somewhat unusual move, Synology Inc. launched its own series of SSDs. These new Synology SSD line comes in 2.5” SATA, M.2 2280, and M.2 221100 form factors and are said to provide high performance with low latency. The SSDs are geared toward virtualization workloads, high traffic volume database storage, and AI and HPC