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QNAP TS-451DeU
Consumer  ◇  NAS

QNAP TS-451DeU Announced

Today, QNAP announced a new short-depth 4-bay NAS for home and small office use, the QNAP TS-451DeU. In a tiny 1U, 12-inch deep format, it’s ideal for A/V racks or network racks, where a traditional 29-inch depth server simply wouldn’t fit. You could also conceive of a scenario where it can be used in a

Lenovo ThinkSystem SR645
Enterprise  ◇  Server

Lenovo ThinkSystem SR645 & SR665 Announced

Today the Lenovo Data Center Group (DCG) announced the launch of two new servers, the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR645 and SR665. Both of the new servers are dual-socket and leverage the AMD EPYC 7002 processors. This follows in the line of over AMD EPYC servers being released such as the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR635.

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