Today, StorCentric released the Nexsan E-Series 32F storage appliance. StorCentric was founded in August 2018. In the less than two years it has existed, it has gobbled up four storage companies. The same month the company was founded, they announced that they would be acquiring storage companies Drobo and Nexsan. Soon afterwards, in June 2019,

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

Today, HP announced new ChromeOS-based laptops to aid the paradigm shift from on-site to remote work. Portability and connectivity are the name of the game with these products.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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