Back in April we wrote an article (I’m aware some of you didn’t like the title) about WD’s woes with the WD Red drives being SMR when the buyers thought they were CMR. The previous article covered WD’s response to the customer outcry (this is the age where the masses can raise up their digital
Today Western Digital announced a new storage platform, the Western Digital OpenFlex Data24. Along with the new platform, they also announced new NVMe Data Center SSDs in the Western Digital Ultrastar DC SN840. While the SN840 drives come with the OpenFlex Data24, and is designed to work well with it, the drive is also ideal
QNAP has announced the availability of the quad-core TS-x53D NAS series, which come in 2, 4, and 6-bay models. QNAP has designed the TS-x53D series for businesses looking for a 2.5GbE NAS solution as well as for gamers who need supplemental space to store their game collections. The new NAS line also features a PCIe
Today, OpenDrives released three new data storage hardware solutions, the OpenDrives Ultra Hardware Platform. The three solutions map well with their existing lineup, and while the company hasn’t explicitly said so, it appears to be a complete refresh of their entire product line. OpenDrives was founded in 2011 and provides shared network attached storage (NAS)
StorONE has announced the All-Flash Array.next (AFAn), which uses Intel Optane SSD as a storage tier, delivering solutions for enterprise storage. The SSD technology, which is used as a storage tier, not as a cache, integrates Intel QLC 3D NAND SSDs for cost-effective, high capacity, moving data between the two storage tiers as it ages.
Today, Western Digital (WD) announced plans to begin shipping its Western Digital OpenFlex Data24 NVMe-oF (NVMe over Fabrics) Storage Platform in the fall. WD’s OpenFlex Data24 device will ship with 24 NVMe SSDs inside. We covered WD’s OpenFlex architecture when they announced it two years ago. Western Digital was founded 50 years ago as General Digital.
Lightbits Labs is rolling out the newest version of its OS, Lightbits Labs LightOS 2.0. The company states that the new version enables cloud-native persistent storage integration for Kubernetes with unprecedented scaling and availability via clustering. Lightbits goes on to say that containerized applications can enjoy reliable disaggregated storage that performs like local flash.
Today Bamboo systems announced what it is calling a next generation server, the Bamboo B1000N Series. The B1000N Series is based on the company’s patent-pending Parallel Arm Node Designed Architecture (PANDA). Bamboo states that its new server series can bring unprecedented levels of compute density and sustainability to servers.
Today at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)’s annual show, now digital, HPE Discover, the company announced the release of a major expansion of GreenLake with HPE GreenLake cloud services. The new GreenLake cloud services will span container management, machine learning operations, VMs, storage, compute, data protection, and networking. This marks a continuation of the company’s edge-to-cloud
Today at HPE Discover, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its new software portfolio, HPE Ezmeral. Ezmeral is said to help companies with their digital transformation and it seems to span across nearly every aspect, including container orchestration and management, AI/ML and data analytics, cost control, IT automation and AI-driven operations, and security. This announcement along
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