Today KIOXIA America, Inc. announced its latest PCIe Gen4 SSD with the KIOXIA XG7/XG7-P Series. This new PCIe Gen4 SSD is for OEMs that supply drives for notebooks, desktops, and workstations. With this announcement, KIOXIA now has PCIe Gen4 drives across the enterprise, data center, and client space.

Today Micron Technology, Inc. announced that it is shipping, in bulk, the world’s first 176-Layer 3D NAND. 176-Layer would be the densest on the market allowing for potentially more capacity in a smaller footprint ideal for mobile, automotive, client devices as well as the data center. The new NAND will go through both Micron and

Today, Western Digital released one new 2TB NVMe SSD for the WD Blue SN550. The company also announced three other NVMe drives that are currently in development. Western Digital was founded 50 years ago as General Digital. Since then, it has become a household name, providing digital storage devices for everything from home use to

Dell Technologies has announced new Dell EMC Ready Solutions and HPC cloud service provider partnerships. The strategy seeks to help customers accelerate advanced computing and AI to drive innovation in healthcare, life sciences, and manufacturing. Dell Technologies’ expanded portfolio consists of Ready Solution for HPC Genomics, Ready Solution for Digital Manufacturing with Altair Hyperworks Unlimited,

Today, Qumulo released a new data encryption service they are calling Qumulo Secure. Qumulo also announced several other new services they expect to release before the end of the calendar year. Qumulo provides a distributed file system for network-attached storage (NAS) that offers customers tremendous flexibility in deployment. Earlier this year, we reviewed Qumulo’s software

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Microsoft 365 leverages AMD EPYC VMs for higher performance. MemSQL changes name to SingleStore. OWC acquires BRU. Ivanti updates its Unified Endpoint Manager. Nasuni named a Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop Partner. TEAMGROUP

Today the US subsidiary of OVHcloud (OVHcloud US) announced the mouthful that is the OVHcloud Managed Bare Metal Essentials powered by VMware. The company states that this is a first of its kind, managed Bare metal infrastructure. On top of the infrastructure, the company upgraded its highly customizable bare metal servers and offered them with

Today KIOXIA America, Inc. continued its push into PCIe Gen4 SSDs for the data center with the introduction of the KIOXIA XD6 Series. This SSD series is a Datacenter SSD Form Factor (EDSFF) E1.S. The form factor and the design of the SS are made to address the specific requirements of hyperscale applications, including the

Today QNAP Systems announced that it has updated the operating system for its QuTS hero NAS line with QuTS hero h4.5.1 NAS operating system. The latest update is all about enhancements and improvements including support for WORM (Write Once, Read Many) auto-committing, VM live migration, Wi-Fi WPA2 Enterprise, Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD