Our News Bits is a roundup that typically covers news pieces that are just small in content, not in impact. This gives content room to breath even if it comes in less than what we normally cover. This year at Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2018 in Santa Clara there were a handful of announcements that either small or would potentially

Newisys announced its new storage server that can fit 56, 2.5” (U.2) NVMe drives in a 2U form factor, the NSS2560. The NSS2560 offers high availability with dual, hot-swappable server modules. The company is also touting some performance numbers of 50GB/s and 12.5 million IOPS on the right configuration.

This week Oracle, or rather Larry Ellison, announced that Oracle’s Autonomous Database Cloud Service now has a Autonomous Transaction Processing feature generally available. The new feature leverages ML and AI as well as existing Oracle Autonomous technology to deliver what the company calls unprecedented cost savings, security, availability, and productivity. This new Autonomous Transaction Processing

Today at Flash Memory Summit (FMS) in Santa Clara, Western Digital Corp. (WDC) announced its new comprehensive set of open standards, architecture and products under the OpenFlex banner. These new products and architecture are touted to address the ever-increasing demands of high-scale private and public cloud data centers. Aside from OpenFlex, WD is also announcing

Today at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, Marvell unveiled a new NVMe over fabrics (NVMe-oF) SSD converter controller, the 88SN2400. The company also revealed its new EDSFF reference design. These new technologies as well as others form Marvell, will be demonstrated at their booth (511) at Santa Clara Convention Center, August 7-9.

Dell EMC is expanding their Ready Solutions lineup with new offerings designed to help organizations with AI tasks.  The two new products they are offering are named Deep Learning with NVIDIA, and Machine Learning with Hadoop. The new solutions are aimed at delivering faster, deeper insight while helping companies realize their potential with AI.

Today Quest Software announced a new Software Defined Secondary Storage platform today, QoreStor. The new platform is backup vendor agnostic and leverages enterprise class compression and deduplication technology. QoreStor is touted to deliver always-on, always-available IT that hit compliance requirements and saves costs through storage reduction.

Today Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., announced that it is mass-producing a 4-bit or quad-level cell (QLC) SATA SSD for consumers. The company states that this will result in a 4TB SATA SSD for the consumers market, an industry’s first using QLC. 

Today Intel Inc. announced the release of two new SSD drive series, the D3-S4510 and D3-S4610. Both new series are 64-Layer TLC, SATA drives. These drives are aimed at saving costs while replacing HDDs in the data center.