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Western Digital/HGST Release 10TB PMR Helium HDD

Today Western Digital announced that it is shipping the world’s first 10TB perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) HDD, the HGST Ultrastar He10. Though a 10TB drive was announced earlier this year it was an SMR drive. The He10 is drop in ready and currently has the highest capacity, lowest power consumption per TB, and highest reliability rating on the

Consumer

Lenovo Introduces New Workstations Including A Tablet-Esque Model

At Autodesk University today in Las Vegas, Lenovo announced a new set of workstations including the ThinkPad P40 Yoga. The ThinkPad P40 Yoga is the first workstation that allows sketching directly onto the screen through a stylus similar to a tablet. Lenovo states that this ability gives creative professionals will be able to sketch their

Seagate & Newisys Demonstrate Flash Storage Architecture Capable Of 1TB/s

Today Seagate Technology and Newisys, a division of Sanmina Corporation, announced that they have broken the 1TB/s threshold in a single rack. The two companies announced that 21 Newisys NSS-2601 with dual NSS-HWxEA Storage Server Modules deployed with Seagate’s newest SAS 1200.2 SSD drives can be combined in a single 42U rack to achieve block

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

HPE Announces Synergy Hybrid Infrastructure

HPE announced today a new composable infrastructure, HPE Synergy. This new platform will run both traditional and cloud native applications by leveraging fluid resource pools, software defined intelligence, and a unified API. HPE Synergy will help enterprises tackle new services and markets while reducing overprovisioning and lower costs.

Enterprise  ◇  Small NAS

Synology NVR216 Compact NVR Solution Announced

Synology has introduced the NVR216 compact NVR solution designed for small shops, offices and other places where space is an issue. The NVR216 is equipped with a dedicated 1080p HDMI output, which allows users to directly connect to a monitor for easy surveillance, as well as the ability to manage cameras and recordings. Available in

Samsung Begins Production Of 128GB DDR4 Modules For Enterprise Servers

Samsung has announced that it will be mass producing the industry’s first through silicon via (TSV) DDR4 memory in 128GB modules for enterprise servers and data centers. Samsung’s new TSV RDIMM technology paves the way for ultra-high capacity memory at an enterprise level. The new TSV DRAM module is touted as the largest capacity and

AWS EC2 Dedicated Hosts Now Available

Amazon Web Services has announced that is Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) now has dedicated hosts. Amazon announced last month that this feature would be coming to AWS soon. With EC2 Dedicated Hosts users will be able to control the mapping of their EC2 instances to the underlying physical servers.

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

Nimble Misses Q3 Expectations & Its Stock Takes A Beating

Nimble Storage reported its third quarter earnings Thursday and the news wasn’t exactly terrific. While their revenue was up 37% over this same quarter last year it was about $7 million under analysts expectations. Nimble also reported a greater loss than expected at $11 million. And the final bit of bad news was that fourth

Google Is Increasing Speed Of Its Cloud Platform

Google Cloud Platform customers rely on Google’s global network for their service. With the modern media-rich and web applications customers need great network performance. Google has made several announcements around improving network performance including the general availability of HTTPS Load Balancing, a software-defined network virtualization stack, Andromeda, and the introduction of Cloud Router and Subnetworks.