Today, Supermicro launched five new X11 appliances that it says were designed exclusively for Hyperscale Datacenters. This launch comes hot on the heels of their announcement of a pole-mounted server earlier this month. The company (Super Micro Computer Incorporated, SMCI) was founded in 1993 and is one of the fastest-growing IT companies in the world.

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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 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