Cisco reported both its fourth quarter and full year earnings for its fiscal 2018. The company’s numbers were good and able to beat expectations. Cisco’s stock is roughly where it was a quarter ago, up slightly this morning, and up a great deal in a year.
Quantum today announced the availability of a new converged tape appliance designed to simplify creating tape backups in a Veeam environment. The solution is available as a single SKU, making it easier to purchase and implement a tape library platform optimized for Veeam backups. The Quantum converged tape appliance offers both a Veeam tape server and a
This year at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA made several announcements. These announcements include a new Graphics architecture, Turing, as well as the world’s first ray-tracing GPU, the Quadro RTX. NVIDIA is happy to announced endorsements from some of the top graphics software companies and it has made its Material Definition Language SDK available as open source.
Today Datrium introduced its new SaaS-based DR orchestration service for VMware, CloudShift. The new DR service combines Datrium’s single stack design with its SaaS platform to tackle real challenges that DR platforms are plagued with and can deliver predictable success. Datrium states that CloudShift will be simple to operate, with low recovery point objectives (RPO), low
At FMS 2018, Mellanox introduced yet another new addition to its BlueField family, this time with new storage controllers. The new storage controllers, the BlueField BF1600 and BF1700, are stated as offering ultra-high performance for Ethernet Storage Fabrics, along with extreme efficiency and programmable virtualization for NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF). The new storage controllers can
Today HyperX, the gaming division of Kingston Technology, announced new gaming microSD cards. The cards come in capacities of 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB. The new cards provide the capacity and speed needed for mobile gamers as well as those that enjoy the Nintendo Switch.
Today Lenovo expanded its ThinkPad line with the release of two new models, the ThinkPad P1 and the ThinkPad P72. The P1 will be Lenovo’s thinnest and lightest mobile workstation to date, and still packing a 15.6” 4K screen. The P72 is a 17” mobile workstation with up to 6TB of storage offered.
Today at SIGGRAPH, AMD announced that it was expanding its powerful workstation, Radeon Pro WX, line with a new addition, the WX 8200. The WX 8200 is billed as the most powerful workstation GPU under a thousand dollars. The company is also announcing major updates to its Radeon ProRender technology.
This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content, not the impact they have. Pivot3 announces yet another strong quarter. NetApp and NVIDIA launch an AI architecture. Cisco announces intent to buy Duo Security. Nutanix acquires Frame. Fantom Drives launches G-Force Storage Suite. Google announces support for NVIDIA
This week at FMS 2018 in Santa Clara, Seagate Technologies announced that it was expanding its Nytro portfolio adding more SSD flash drives. Though the company has some SSDs for end users, it announced more enterprise SSDs including the Nytro 1000 SATA and Nytro 5020 NVMe. These new enterprise drives are aimed at data centers
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