Today Micron Technology, Inc. introduced its new integrated platform to deliver low-latency and high performance access to compute and storage, the Micron SolidScale architecture. Micron states that its new architecture gives its customers agility to deploy next-generation, cloud-native applications while still giving them support for legacy applications they currently use. SolidScale also leverages NVMe technology

Today Nutanix announced that it has expanded its hardware support for the company’s Enterprise Cloud Platform software. The software will be available as a term-based license for deployment on Hewlett Packard Enterprises (HPE) ProLiant rackmount servers and Cisco UCS B-series blade servers (the Enterprise Cloud Platform software is already available on Cisco UCS C-series platform).

Today Intel announced two new data center SSD series, the P4500 and P4600 series. Both the new series are built for cloud usage with Intel saying they are built to get more out of each server, minimizing service disruptions, and give customers the ability to efficiently manage at scale. The drives will come in two

Today X-IO Technologies announced the generally availability of its new computing platform, the Axellio Edge. Leveraging technology such as NVMe FabricXpress architecture, the Axellio is quoted as delivering real-time performance of 480 Gbps for complex analytics on high-volume, high-velocity, streaming data and over 12 million IOPS. X-IO states that the main use cases will be cybersecurity,

This week’s News Bits we look at a number of small announcements, small in terms of the content not the impact they have. RAIDIX expands its partner network in Asia and Latin America. IBM once again takes the #1 spot in SDS software market. Rubrik’s CDM platform now runs in AWS and Microsoft Azure. Cisco expands its

When it comes to SSDs in the data center, there are a handful of products that stand well above the rest. Samsung has quite a few top performers, highlighted by their 15TB 2.5" SAS beast (PM1633a 15.36TB) that's being used in several storage arrays from NetApp, HPE and others. The net effect is shrinking data

Veeam has commissioned an ESG report to look at the availability gap (a gap between user expectations for availability and what IT can deliver) and how much this gap can actually costs enterprises. The report took a survey of 1,060 ITDMs from private and public sector organizations with a minimum of 1,000 employees, in 24

Seagate Technology announced its third quarter 2017 financial results. Though in recent quarters Seagate has been on the rise, this earnings report was a bit flat if not down some from the previous results. Seagate’s stock has shown a fairly strong performance over the quarter with a high of 50.51 before a sharp sell off

QNAP Systems has announced the availability of the new TS-x53B series, which is highlighted by a PCIe expansion slot for high-performing scalability and functionality that SMB and SOHO users need. Available in 2-bay, 4-bay and 6-bay models, the TS-x53B series is equipped with the 14nm Intel Celeron J3455 quad-core 1.5GHz processor, upwards of dual-channel 8GB