Lenovo is announcing Linux Certification to their ThinkPad and ThinkStation Workstation Portfolio. In the past, Lenovo has only certified specific workstations with specific configurations for use with Linux in an enterprise environment. With this announcement, Lenovo is certifying all of their ThinkStation and ThinkPad P Series workstations for use with Ubuntu LTS and Red Hat Enterprise.
This week, VMware announced a new partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE): the Integrated HPE vSAN ReadyNodes. This alliance intends to deliver a superior hyperconverged infrastructure customer experience. vSAN is VMware’s software-defined storage product that pools direct-attached storage devices across a VMware vSphere server virtualization cluster. Now, HPE supports, certifies, and offers VMware vSAN ReadyNode
Today, Cloudian released HyperIQ. HyperIQ is a software tool to help customers better monitor their usage of Cloudian storage services. Cloudian was founded in 2011 and primarily focuses on providing file and object storage software, although they recently spun off an edge AI-focused subsidiary.
Today Dell technologies announced that it will be accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) workloads through Dell EMC Ready Solutions with VMware. More specifically the Dell EMC Ready Solutions are based on VMware Cloud foundation and comes with the new features of VMware vSphere 7 that include Bitfusion. Dell is the first company to leverage capabilities in
This week we found that Samsung expands NAND flash production capacity in Pyeongtaek, Korea, to address mid- to long-term demands, specifically for the market’s emerging technologies. Construction is already well underway at the facility, with mass production of their V-NAND memory slated for a start sometime in the second half of 2021. Samsung indicates that
Dell EMC announced the PowerProtect DD Series Appliances last September, targeting data protection for the modern digital economy. This month, the company has announced new features to the appliance’s product line, focusing on capacity and performance. Critical enhancements on this release comprise the Dell EMC PowerProtect DD9900 appliance, the Dell EMC PowerProtect DD Virtual Edition
Today RackTop Systems announced that is has been included in the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Complete program. Specifically, HPE will be reselling RackTop BrickStor SP software with its market leading HPE ProLiant and Apollo Servers to meet the high security file storage needs of Federal Government. While RackTop BrickStor SP has been available, the combined
Dell EMC has released an update to its object storage platform, the Dell EMC ECS version 3.5. ECS platforms have been engineered to support both traditional and next-generation workloads. With this product, the company claims unmatched scalability, manageability, resilience, and economics to meet the demands of modern business. Now, with the latest version, this platform
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. StorONE publishes storage pricing. Actifio announces best first quarter. Netlist adds an M.2 SSD to its portfolio. FUJIFILM announces Object Archive software. CTERA Files Services available for SimpliVity. Portworx sees triple digit growth In
Today Kingston Digital, Inc. announced that they are shipping 7.68TB SATA SSDs in the form of the Data Center 500R (DC500R) and 450R (DC450R). The 8TB Kingston DC500R & DC450R are said to provide additional storage and implement strict QoS ensuring predictable IO and low latency for data centers leveraging the SATA interface. Kingston is
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