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Dell EMC PowerStore
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Dell EMC PowerStore Released For Midrange

Today Dell EMC announced its new midrange storage array, Dell EMC PowerStore. PowerStore is said to be up to seven times faster and three times more responsive than the company’s previous midrange storage entries. This is in part from its end to end NVMe architecture, support for dual-ported Intel Optane SSDs, and up to 32Gb

HPE Greenlake Central
Enterprise  ◇  Software

HPE Greenlake Central Released

Today, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) released Greenlake Central. HPE has been offering IT-as-a-Service for the last three years under the Greenlake brand name. Greenlake Central is a new software platform that is supposed to unify their existing offerings by providing customers a single software platform they can use to manage their clouds. Hewlett Packard Enterprise

NVIDIA Acquire Cumulus
Enterprise  ◇  Networking

NVIDIA To Acquire Cumulus

Today NVIDA announced its intent to acquire Cumulus Networks. NVIDIA isn’t exactly on an acquisition frenzy, but they did recently acquire Mellanox as well. While the Mellanox deal went for just shy of $7 billion, there doesn’t seem to be a word yet on the price tag of Cumulus.

Backblaze S3
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Backblaze Makes It Easier To Switch From S3

Today, Backblaze added new APIS to their B2 Cloud Storage. The company describes the APIs as “S3 Compatible,” meaning applications written for S3 should now work on Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage without any new code development. Backblaze was founded in 2007 and offers both a cloud object storage system and an online tool to backup

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Red Hat Summit 2020 Bits

Red Hat had its annual summit this week and chose to go virtual as the Covid-19 pandemic is causing more and more shows to cancel or try to get their message out through different avenues. Red Hat and Partners made a handful of announcements. These announcements include OpenShift 4.4, OpenShift Virtualization, Advanced Cluster Management for

Client Accessories  ◇  Consumer

What is USB-C: Background and Overview

There are a bunch of different cables and connectors that you use daily for connecting, communicating, and powering your electronic devices: HDMI, Display Port, Lightning (Apple), Thunderbolt, and more. All of these technologies pioneered by different manufacturers due to all of them started with different purposes. Nevertheless, when you consider or relate to cables and

VAST Data Universal Storage 3.0
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

VAST Data Universal Storage 3.0 Released

Today, VAST Data released Universal Storage 3.0. Universal Storage is VAST’s name for their disaggregated, shared everything, (DASE) all-flash server storage architecture. VAST Data (yes, all the letters in VAST are capitalized) released Universal Storage 1.0 as their first product just last year. Vast Data has gone through four rounds of funding since its founding

Clumio backup Microsoft 365
Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Clumio Data Protection For Microsoft 365 Announced

Today, Clumio announced that it had added Microsoft 365 to its backup as a service strategy. With this joining, the company wants to provide other organizations running Microsoft 365 with a globally consolidated data protection service. Clumio provides backup as a service for enterprise and seeks to eliminate the complexity of infrastructure management.

Cumulus NetQ 3.0
Enterprise  ◇  Networking

Cumulus NetQ 3.0 Released

Today, Cumulus Networks released the latest version of NetQ, 3.0. NetQ is a realtime network monitoring and analytics tool. JR Rivers and Nolan Leake founded Cumulus Networks in 2010. NetQ is one of their two main products. The other is an open-source Linux (Debian based) operating system for network switches.

Consumer  ◇  NAS

QNAP TS-x31K NAS Series Now Available

QNAP has announced the immediate availability of their new quad-core TS-x31K NAS series, which includes 1-bay (TS-131K), 2-bay (TS-231K) and 4-bay (TS-431K) models. These NAS solutions provide centralized data backup and management with file access and sharing, snapshot protection, and a range of multimedia applications. Coupling these features with its compact design makes the TS-x31K