Today, SoftIron Ltd. announced their next-generation top-of-rack switch, SoftIron HyperSwitch. This new series of switches is built around maximizing the performance and flexibility of SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud). SONiC is the open source network operating system built by Microsoft for scale-out performance networking. The HyperSwitch family will have three models all

Today, Dell Technologies announced the release of version 9 of their proprietary thin client operating system, ThinOS 9. Dell Technologies is the parent company of Dell and Dell EMC since Dell acquired EMC in 2015. Dell was founded in 1984 and is one of the most well-known computer manufacturers.

Today, Nutanix announced they are extending their platform with some of the new features slated to be part of their next major version of their object storage platform, Nutanix Objects 2.0. Nutanix has been mentioned in passing in a number of our articles over the years, but I think this may be the first time

Today Seagate Technology plc announced the expansion of its IronWolf SSD product line. The company is rolling out the Seagate IronWolf 510 SSD. This new SSD is a M.2 NVMe drive is aimed at NAS devices that need storage for caching. Seagate states the drive can hit cashing speeds up to 3GB/s and is ready

Memblaze has announced the PBlaze5 920 Series enterprise-class NVMe SSD, which consists of four different SKU groups: PBlaze5 D920, PBlaze5 C920, PBlaze5 D926 and PBlaze5 C926.  The new PBlaze5 NVMe SSD leverages 96-layer 3D eTLC NAND, features capacities of up to 7.68TB, and comes in form factors of 2.5-inch U.2 and HHHL add-in card. The

This week, with the newest release of VMware vSAN version 7, VMware brings two essential enhancements to the vSAN capacity monitoring: Improvements to virtual machine consumption metrics and vSphere Replication object reporting. VMware says that these new capacity reporting features are intended to assists administrators make decisions to add capacity to existing hosts in a

Synology has announced the DiskStation DS220j, an entry-level 2-bay NAS designed as a personal cloud solution for data sharing and backup. This new consumer NAS from Synology is powered by its 64-bit, 4-core 1.4 GHz CPU, quoted to deliver over 112MB/s in both reads and writes, and supports up to 32TB via two 16TB drives

Today, Alluxio announced the addition of Alluxio Structured Data Service (SDS) to Alluxio 2.2. SDS features data catalog and transformation services. The company 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.

Today VMware has made some major announcements from expanding Tanzu to releasing vSAN 7. In another major announcement the company is releasing the latest version of vSphere with VMware vSphere 7. While there are several new features and capabilities announced, the key feature is native support for Kubernetes, allowing the ability to run containers and