International Data Corporation (IDC) ran its quarterly Worldwide Server Tracker for the fourth quarter for worldwide converged systems market, which reported an increase of 14.8% year over year to $4.15 billion during the fourth quarter of 2018 (4Q18). Dell EMC has retained its spot at the top yet again this quarter.  

Lexar has announced their Professional SL100 Pro Portable SSD, which features a solid set of transfer speeds up 950 MB/s read and 900 MB/s write; a big improvement over the SL1003. This tiny device features a brushed aluminum finish, and a drop-, shock-, vibration-resistant build, making it ideal for professionals and prosumers who are often

NetApp has announced Memory Accelerated Data (MAX Data) 1.3, which is highlighted by its support for Intel Optane DC persistent memory. The company expects this new update to give organizations a competitive edge by allowing them to be more flexible with their data and thus their customers.  NetApp’s MAX Data significantly accelerates application performance by taking advantage of persistent memory on the

Cisco has announced that their UCS servers are now updated with 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors. Servers now include higher top-end frequencies, Intel Optane DC persistent memory with 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB module capacities, support for 256GB DIMMs DDR4 2933-MHz memory, hardware mitigations for several side-channel attacks and Intel Speed Select Technology.

TYAN has announced support for 2nd generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors with their full line of HPC, cloud computing and storage server platforms for enterprises, cloud and hyperscale data centers.

Cloud Foundry Foundation, a company aiming to drive awareness and adoption of the Cloud Foundry open source projects for the enterprise, kicked off its annual North American Summit in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania today, where they released a report with their findings of a study revealing trends of how companies treat digital transformation as a constant adaptation

DriveScale, a company dedicated to re-imaging static compute infrastructure as adaptable and programmable, making data centers a composable scale-out cloud, announced today the support for NVMe over TCP for its flagship DriveScale Composable Platform.

Intel has talked about Optane DC Persistent Memory Modules (PMM) publicly for over a year now, espousing the benefits of a new tier of data centric architecture that sits between DRAM and Optane DC SSDs, with sequentially slower SSD and HDD media cascading down the pyramid to tape at the archive level. The goal with

As part of its biannual update, Intel today announced updates to its Xeon Scalable processors from platinum to bronze, in the second generation Intel Xeon Scalable. These new CPU’s come with the promise of higher processing power, no real surprise there, with some offer core counts as high as 56. A big aspect of this