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Consumer  ◇  Memory Card

Kingston Canvas Plus Line and MobileLite Plus UHS-II Reader Announced

Kingston Digital has announced Canvas Plus, a refresh of its Canvas series of SD and microSD cards. The new lineup is highlighted by its UHS-II class designation (a Kingston first) and is designed for their new MobileLite Plus UHS-II readers for high-end performance in DSLRs, 4K/8K video production, Android devices, action cams and drones.

Mellanox SN4000 family
Enterprise  ◇  Networking

Mellanox Starts Shipping 12.8 Tbps Switches

Today, Mellanox began shipping their newest ethernet switches to customers.  The new switches belong to the SN4000 family and are powered by the company’s own scalable 12.8 Tbps Ethernet switch ASIC, Spectrum 3. Mellanox was founded in 1999 and provides data center network solutions. NVIDIA is in the process of buying Mellanox for $6.9 billion.

Enterprise  ◇  Software

NetApp Acquires Talon Storage

NetApp has announced the acquisition of Talon Storage in an effort to enhance their cloud data services portfolio. Talon Storage is a software-defined storage solutions company that focuses on helping enterprises centralize and consolidate their IT storage infrastructure to the public clouds. NetApp indicates that the addition of Talon’s FAST software, combined with their own

separate storage configurations for Sas/SATA & PCIe
Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Evolving Storage with SFF-TA-1001 (U.3) Universal Drive Bays

IT departments are challenged with having to choose and configure data storage to meet present-day and future data center, system and end-user requirements for their organizations. They have to predict application use, workload sizes, performance needs and capacity expectations for years to come. Determining these requirements, and then implementing a storage strategy that meets these

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Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

News Bits: Nexsan, KIOXIA, Veeam, Datrium, StorONE, & NVIDIA

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Nexsan releases new BEAST Elite models. KIOXIA adds provisioner service to KumoScale. Insight Partners completes acquisition of Veeam. Datrium adds five new patents. StorONE buys Storage Switzerland. NVIDIA acquires SwiftStack.

iXsystems TrueNAS 12.0
Enterprise  ◇  Software

FreeNAS & TrueNAS Get Name Changes

iXsystems announced today that it was making some changes around its popular open source storage software. iXsystems has two major products, the ever popular FreeNAS and the enterprise TrueNAS. With the next update the two will become one, with a few caveats.

WD Gold NVMe
Enterprise  ◇  SSD

Western Digital Announces WD Gold NVMe SSDs

Today Western Digital announced new NVMe SSDs in their WD Gold family. The new SSDs are aimed at small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to help them transition to NVMe storage and all the benefits that come with it such as much higher performance and ultra-low latency. This marks the first NVMe product in the WD

solidrun janux gs31
Enterprise  ◇  Server

SolidRun Announces Energy Efficient Edge Server

SolidRun announced what they’re calling an “AI Inference Server,” the Janux GS31. The Janux GS31 has a 1U form factor, up to 128 Gyrfalcon Technology Inc. SPR2803 AI acceleration chips and targets the edge computing market. SolidRun was founded in 2010 and is known for their tiny ARM architecture CuBox computers, which are cubes about

Data Protection  ◇  Enterprise

Retrospect Releases Backup 17 & Virtual 2020

Today, Retrospect released Retrospect Backup 17 and Retrospect Virtual 2020, as well as updates to its Retrospect Management Console. Retrospect is a surprisingly old company that’s had its share of name changes since it was founded as Dantz Development in 1984. Dantz Development was bought by EMC in 2004 only to be sold to Sonic

supermicro pole server feature
Enterprise  ◇  Server

Supermicro Announces Pole Server

Today, Supermicro announced a pole-mounted server. The new IP65 enclosure-based servers are targeting the 5G and other edge-focused markets. Regular readers are probably already familiar with the company from our articles like our recent review of Supermicro’s 6019P server, but I’m still going to provide a little background information on them for new readers. The