Western Digital has announced the addition of a high-capacity 10TB model (WD101KRYZ) to their WD Gold line of datacenter hard drives, which were unveiled back in April. Built mainly for modern enterprise storage systems, the 10TB WD Gold features HelioSeal helium-technology for high capacity, power efficient storage datacenter environments.
Today Panasas introduced its latest hybrid scale-out NAS appliance, ActiveStor 20. Panasas states that this new version of ActiveStor sports a 65% increase in flash and a 25% increase in hard drive capacity. The new ActiveStor is utilizing high density SSDs and 10TB HGST Ultrastar He10 helium-based HDDs to gain more capacity and performance. In fact, Panasas
Virtual Instruments announced the latest version of its Load DynamiX appliance operating environment, version 5.2. This update features support for 40 Gigabit Ethernet (40GbE) and 32 Gigabit Fibre Channel (32Gb FC) capable Workload Generation Appliances. According to Virtual Instruments, this update makes the Load DynamiX product suite to offer the first and only storage performance
Today Quantum Corp. reported its first fiscal quarter results for 2017. Comparing these results to 2016 first fiscal quarter has things looking up, or at least better, for Quantum in a time where most tech companies are struggling. After reporting the first quarter results Quantum’s stock saw a small uptick but is still trading for
The process of scheduling containers in a container orchestration framework such as Kubernetes or Docker SWARM can be described as simply allocating runtime resources to workloads. In a world where there are unlimited (or at least sufficient) resources and all workloads are equal, current container scheduling systems would be considered adequate. However, in the real
Today Dell Security announced that it has released the latest firmware update to its SonicWALL operating system, SonicOS 6.2.6. This latest update comes with a couple of new features including the industry’s first multi-engine sandbox that enables customers to block suspicious files until a verdict is reached, SonicWALL Capture. The new update also comes with
Today Western Digital Corp. (WDC) announced that it has successfully developed BiCS3, the latest generation of its 3D NAND technology, now with 64 layers of vertical storage capacity. WDC states that pilot production has commenced in Yokkaichi, Japan joint venture facilities. Initial output is expected by the end of this year with meaningful commercial volumes
Crucial announced today that it was expanding its MX300 line of SSDs to include other capacities. We reviewed the MX300 last month when it was only offered in a capacity of 750GB. The new capacities the drive is offered in are 275GB, 525GB, and 1TB. Crucial also announced an M.2 form factor of the drive will be
Today HP announced that it was taking its popular and affordable Z240 workstation and increasing what’s under the hood. The Z240 has been popular with many small to medium businesses especially those that lean toward design, video production, and architecture. HP states that they are doubling the memory and processing power as well as adding
Today Seagate Technology announces that it was continuing to expand its Nytro line, now by adding the industry’s first 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD. The 2TB version of Seagate’s Nytro XM1440 M.2 is the highest capacity M.2 SSD currently on the market and is ideal for demanding enterprise applications that require fast data access, capacity and
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