Synology has announced the availability of the DS216j, a 2-bay NAS powered by a dual-core CPU with FPU and designed for home media streaming, file sharing and backup. The DS216j’s use of FPU speeds up thumbnail generation and is quoted to deliver file transfer speeds of 112.75MB/s read and 97.6MB/s writes when configured in RAID1.

Today at the Open Compute Project Summit Facebook made several announcements, from its new NVMe JBOF to its renewed focus on front-end server performance. Facebook is opening up its designs for its modular switch platform, 6-pack, and its next-generation TOR switch, Wedge 100. These two networking solutions are an important step for Facebook as it aims to support

Facebook has made a series of announcements today at the Open Compute Project (OCP) summit. While these announcements generally focus around innovation and increasing the use or utilization of emerging technology, Facebook is announcing something a little different. Facebook has worked with Intel to develop new processors for their front-end servers, but instead of using

At the Open Compute Project Summit today Facebook is announcing its flexible NVMe JBOF (just a bunch of flash), Lightning. Facebook is introducing Lightning as a flash building block, or flash sled. Lightning will allow data centers to better scale out flash capacity across multiple applications while tuning the compute-to-storage ratio. Facebook is contributing this

Google announced today that it has joined the Open Compute Project (OCP), which helps drive standardization in IT infrastructure. Google will be joining the ranks of other companies such as Facebook, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Rackspace, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Goldman Sachs, Fidelity, Lenovo and Bank of America. Google’s main focus in OCP will be a new

Through a joint customer, Credit Acceptance Corporation, Cohesity and Pure Storage have worked together to combine Pure Storage’s All-Flash array with Cohesity’s consolidated secondary storage platform. The combination of the two technologies gives customers the best of both worlds with an increase in performance through the all-flash array while being able to maximize the value

Today Commvault has announced new innovations to its Commvault Data Platform. These newly announced innovations further enable customer choice, help eliminate vendor lock-in, and facilitate extensive data portability while extending the platform’s value to larger range of applications and software ecosystems. Commvault is also announcing enhancements to its Commvault integrated solutions portfolio. These new enhancements

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced its open, cloud-optimized storage server. According to HPE, this announcement makes them the only top-tier vendor to offer a complete open infrastructure portfolio with compute, networking and now storage server offerings. HPE is also making enhancements to its HPE Cloudline servers and HPE Altoline network switches for service providers.

Today, Eaton launched its new integrated infrastructure that combines key elements of advanced power and physical asset management, the RackPack IT Platform. This new plug-and-play platform is designed to provide customers in North America with best-in-class power management while seamlessly integrating with major virtualization and converged infrastructure platforms, in addition to traditional IT environments.