This week Micron announced new capacities and use cases for its QLC-based SSD, the Micron 5210 ION enterprise SATA SSD. This drive is predominantly aimed at replacing HDDs in the data center. These QLC drives will bring better performance and lower power usage without breaking the bank.

Today Cohesity announced that it has raised an additional $250 million through series E funding.  The latest funding round was led by DFJ Growth, Foundation Capital, Greenspring Associates, and Wing Venture Capital. DFJ Growth and Greenspring Associates are new investors as are Baillie Gifford and Sozo Ventures. With the $250 million, Cohesity’s total haul comes

Yesterday, Veeam marked the 10th anniversary of the Veeam Cloud & Service Provider (VCSP) program. Along with this installation, Veeam announced the release of the program discounts and updates, as well as the release of the new Veeam Service Provider Console version 4. The company claims that the new capabilities included in the Veeam Service

Today, Super Micro Computer, Inc. introduced new Supermicro 2U Ultra SuperServer For 5G and telecommunication environments. The new compact 2U systems are optimized for edge micro data centers where the bulk of the 5G action seems to be happening. The new SuperServer supports second generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors, up to 205W TDP, and up

Back in January, iXsystems had a major release in the form of FreeNAS 11.3. This is not to be confused with last month’s major announcement of FreeNAS and TrueNas gaining name parity along with other shared features.This week saw the release of iXsystems FreeNAS 11.3-U2 that mainly focuses on bug fixes and other housekeeping issues.

If you find yourself here reading this article, it probably means something has gone terribly wrong. Take a deep breath, we’re going to get through this. Buried in the depths of the Google search results for “deleted file recovery,” past the very aggressive SEO results of various companies trying to get you to buy their

Today, HiveIO announced that they were now offering a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution. A Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution provides virtual desktops through the cloud in much the same way a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) or thin-client does using on-premise servers. HiveIO was founded in 2015, and prior to this has focused

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Samsung announces EUV DRAM. AWS makes several announcements. Backblaze hits an Exabyte. Quantum expands video surveillance portfolio. Kasten introduces K10 2.5. Synology VPN Plus licenses free until 09/20/2020. Aerospike announces Aerospike Cloud. FalconStor and

FTS International (FTSI), one of the largest well completion companies in North America, recently migrated its Active Directory infrastructure in the data center from a Dell on-premises setup to a two cluster DataON solution for Azure Stack HCI. We have been working with DataON for the last couple of months to get a better understanding