The International Data Corporation (IDC) released its Q1 report for 2020 on June 18th. According to the report, VMware leads the Worldwide Hyperconverged Systems Revenue Attributed to Owner of HCI Software rankings with 42% of the first quarter, 2020 market share. VMware is the biggest name in virtualization and has been for so long that

Today Dell Technologies announced new Dell EMC VxRail D Series and Dell EMC VxRAil E Series. Dell is taking an interesting track here releasing both an Intel Xeon Scalable (2nd generation) and an AMD EPYC 7002 version. The Intel is a ruggedized model for harsher, edge environments. And the AMD model marks the introduction of

Chenbro has announced the RB14604, a 1U server featuring integrated Intel Server Board M10JNP2SB for Intel Xeon E processors and 4x Hot-Swap 3.5” Drive Bays. This Level 6 barebones server solution comes pre-integrated with a server-grade microATX motherboard, which is ideal for applications such as web hosting, content delivery, storage applications, and entry-level Cloud services.

This week, at VeeamON 2020, Veeam has announced a new Veeam Availability Orchestrator (VAO) v3 and new DR Pack. VAO v3 provides intelligent orchestration and testing for business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) and migration operations. And the new DR Pack is a game-changer for enterprise-grade DR, which delivers orchestration and automation capabilities at a

This week, at VeeamON 2020, Veeam has announced several new highlights in regards to Amazon Web Services (AWS), including the general availability of the new Veeam Backup for AWS v2. Since the first release in 2019, Veeam Backup for AWS has been delivering cost-effective and secure cloud-native backup and disaster recovery (DR) of Amazon EC2

Synology has announced the availability of the Synology DiskStation DS220+, DS420+ and DS920+, the latter two which feature M.2 2280 NVMe slots for SSD Cache. The new DS+ solutions all support Synology Active Backup for Business for Windows-based PCs and servers, VM (on Hyper-V or VMware environments).

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced AWS Snowcone, a unique ultra-portable, secure edge computing and data transfer device. Snowcone weighs in at just under 5lbs and is the smallest member of the AWS Snow family, allowing customers to process stored data locally then ship it to AWS or online via the AWS DataSync. AWS Snowcone

Today we see a huge announcement in the form of 3rd Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Cooper Lake) coming out. While most CPU updates come with the whiz, bang, pow updates of performance, Intel is actually releasing the processors that are built around workloads, specifically AI. The new CPUs go hand in hand with

Intel has announced the Optane Persistent Memory 200 Series, the company’s 2nd-gen high-performing, persistent memory tier for 3rd-gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors on 4-socket platforms. The new line of PMem is quoted to deliver an average of 25% more in memory bandwidth compared to the last generation, 12-15 watts of thermal design power (TDP), and