Today at GTC in Santa Clara, NVIDIA announced the first secure SmartNIC that is optimized for 25G, the NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX-6 Lx SmartNIC. Designed to provide advanced network offloads to accelerate cloud and enterprise workloads, the new SmartNIC is highly secure and able to hit 25/50Gb/s speeds.

Today, Supermicro announced two new servers that will use NVIDIA’s recently teased third generation of HGX GPUs (Graphics Processing Units), NVIDIA A100 GPUs. SMCI, Super Micro Computer Incorporated, commonly referred to as just Supermicro, was founded in 1993 and is one of the fastest-growing IT companies in the world.

Back in February, a series of Thunderbolt securities flaws were discovered and reported by Björn Ruytenberg, an MSc student in Computer Science and Engineering who specializes in Information Security. Ruytenberg, published a Thunderbolt vulnerability report and has named this hacking technique as Thunderspy. Thunderspy is a collection of vulnerabilities that breaks all primary Thunderbolt security

This week, Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH has announced the general availability of Proxmox VE 6.2, the latest version of Proxmox’s open-source virtualization management platform. This new version includes features aimed at addressing issues facing modern datacenter administrators and IT teams, said the company. Moreover, notable improvements and many advanced options for the web-based user interface.

Today, Quantum announced some of the enhancements that they are planning to include in StorNext 6.4. StorNext is a File System software that abstracts the physical medium data is stored on to allow customers to scale and tier their storage solutions as needed. Quantum got its start in 1980 as a disk drive manufacturer. In

Samsung has announced the PM9A3 SSD at the OCP Virtual Summit keynote, which features an SNIA-based E1.S form factor model and full PCIe Gen 4 support. This allows it to leverage the production efficiencies of the company’s sixth-generation (1xx-layer), three-bit V-NAND. In addition, Samsung has also introduced a comprehensive reference design for its E1.S-based storage

Today, Scale Computing has announced a new class of HC3 appliances, the Scale Computing HC3250DF. This All-NVMe appliance has faster storage, more CPU, and faster networking options. The Scale Computing HC3 Edge are hyperconverged solutions that include storage, compute, hypervisor, data management, data protection, and disaster recovery capabilities. The HC3250DF is designed to enhance support

Today MemVerge announced what it sees as the next big thing for in-memory computing, MemVerge Big Memory Computing. Big Memory Computing is being hailed as a new technology category that will allow all applications to run in memory versus a strict range of workloads. This new technology combines persistent memory hardware and memory machine software

Micron has announced the immediate availability of the Micron 2300 and Micron 2210, two new NVMe M.2 SSDs designed for client computing applications. The Micron 2300 SSD is ideal for compute-heavy applications while the Micron 2210 combines NVMe performance with low-cost QLC NAND for a very affordable overall price point.