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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

Rubrik Andes 5.2
Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Rubrik Andes 5.2 Released

Today Rubrik announced the latest release of its Cloud Data Management solution, Rubrik Andes 5.2. The latest update is said to come with the following benefits: “blazingly” fast VMware performance, improved control for Oracle DBAs, and additional enterprise advancements to address compliance within highly regulated industries. Rubrik goes on to state that Andes 5.2 will

Alluxio In-Memory Acceleration
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Alluxio In-Memory Acceleration Layer Announced

Today, Alluxio announced a plan to collaborate with Intel to offer an in-memory acceleration layer. Alluxio develops open-source data orchestration software for the cloud and has done so since 2014. Version 2 of their eponymous Alluxio software was released just last year.

Igneous DataDiscover
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Igneous DataDiscover Upgraded

Today, Igneous announced that it plans to release a new feature for its DataDiscover software in the middle of next month. Igneous DataDiscover helps teams see and analyze the usage of Network-Attached Storage (NAS). We covered the announcement of Igneous’s first product in 2016. Igneous has two main products, both related to data management and

Kingston KC2500 NVMe
Client SSD  ◇  Consumer

Kingston KC2500 NVMe SSD Released

Today Kingston Digital, Inc. announced yet another new M.2 SSD in what seems to be a new spree of drive announcements. The new drive is the Next-Gen KC2500 NVMe PCIe SSD, an M.2 drive aimed at desktop, workstations and high-performance computing (HPC) systems.

SanDisk Extreme Pro CFexpress Card Type B
Consumer  ◇  Memory Card

CFexpress Cards are Ready for Next-Gen Cameras

The next generation of professional cameras are here, with higher resolutions and more color bit depth than ever before. With all of that comes a lot more data and the need for higher data rates. CFexpress is the next generation of media designed for these cameras, offering astonishing speeds well in excess of 1GB/s in

Cisco Intersight Pure Storage
Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Cisco Intersight Hits GA For Pure Storage Automation

This week, Cisco has announced the General Availability of Intersight for Pure Storage Flash Array Automation. With this initial integration, Intersight seeks to facilitate infrastructure administrators to automate storage and storage-related virtualization tasks through workflows using the Intersight Workflow Designer. Cisco Intersight is a Software as a Service (SaaS) infrastructure management platform that overcomes the

Amazon Keyspaces
Enterprise  ◇  Software

AWS Amazon Keyspaces Announced

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of Amazon Keyspaces, the company’s scalable, highly available and fully-managed database service for Cassandra workloads. Amazon Keyspaces supports the open-source Apache Cassandra Query Language (CQL) API, which allows customers to migrate workloads via the same application code, Apache 2.0 licensed drivers, and developer tools they currently

NetApp SDP
Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Commvault Launches NetApp Scale-out Data Protection (SDP)

Today Commvault announced the launch of NetApp Scale-out Data Protection (SDP). The idea behind SDP is to offer expanded rapid recovery support for critical data across NetApp’s hybrid-enabled storage systems. NetApp SDP is powered by Commvault Complete Backup & Recovery software, hence the launching from Commvault. This marks the continuing partnership of NetApp and Commvault