As we mention on our last podcast, several users were frustrated to find that WD Red NAS drives they purchased were SMR when they thought they were CMR. SMR is a technology that can introduce more capacity onto a platter, as well as introduces performance differences, particularly in writes. WD has responded through its blog,

QNAP has announced the availability of three new JBOD enclosures, the TL-D400S (4-bay), TL-D800S (8-bay) and TL-D1600S (16-bay), as well as the 4-bay TL-R400S and 12-bay TL-R1200S-RP rackmounts. These storage enclosures can be directly attached to compatible NAS, PCs and servers using SFF-8088 cables and a QXP PCIe card. Moreover, the TL SATA JBOD supports

Today, Amazon Wed Services (AWS) opened a new region, the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region. This marks a whopping 73 Availability Zones within 23 geographic regions around the world for AWS. Opening up a new region in South Africa gives developers, startups, and enterprises, as well as government, education, and non-profit organizations the ability to

Cisco and Google made a joint announcement. They are hoping to release a turnkey networking solution that currently has the very long name of: Cisco SD-WAN (Software Defined-Wide Area Network) Cloud Hub with Google Cloud. Google is hopeful they’ll be able to release it sometime in the first half of 2021. With a target date

Today BOXX Technologies announced the launch of its BOXX Cloud Services (BCS). The company states that BCS is a secure, high-performance, virtual private cloud workstation service powered by professionally overclocked BOXX workstations purpose-built for enterprise organizations’ CAD applications and workflows. This gives those that work in architecture, engineering, and design the power of a BOXX

Today NetApp introduced its vision for a for a software-defined platform, Project Astra. Developed with the Kubernetes community, Astra is said to deliver enterprise class easy-to-consume data services, storage, and application and data portability for stateful applications. NetApp sees this platform working with any Kubernetes distribution on any cloud.

Today KIOXIA America Inc. announced that its KumoScale storage software now including Kubernetes CSI-compliant snapshots and clones. To the uninitiated, this doesn’t sound like a big announcement. However, today’s announcement enable users to reduce the time pressures associated with backup processes for large, stateful applications such as databases, at a lower storage ‘cost.’ The clone

Today Micron announced that it was expanding its line of NVMe SSDs under the Crucial banner with the introduction of the Crucial P5 and P2. The new end user drives are aimed at gamers and PC enthusiasts. Basically, the expanded P-Series aims to up performance in a cost-effective manner.

Today WekaIO introduced its new storage solution framework that it states enables accelerated edge-to-core-to-cloud data pipelines, Weka AI. This new framework is underpinned by the Weka File System (WekaFS) and is composed of RAs and SDKs with partners such as NVIDIA, Mellanox, and others in the Weka Innovation Network (WIN).