During SIGGRAPH 2015, Google has been making various announcements including the public beta of their cloud-native rendering solution (August 20th), Zync, giving artists access to 1,600 dedicated Compute Engine cores to power their V-Ray, Arnold and Nuke-based renders. On August 20th, artists will be able to be among the first to sign up and use
Samsung has announced three TCO-optimized, high-performance SSDs–the PM1633, PM1725 and PM953–adding to its portfolio of advanced enterprise and data center SSDs. Built specifically for OEMs, the company’s new SSDs all leverage Samsung’s 3-bit MLC V-NAND flash memory to offer superior performance and reliability in high capacities points. Yesterday, Samsung had announced the mass production of
Today Synology America Corp released the latest beta of its comprehensive surveillance application, Surveillance Station 7.1 beta. We previously reviewed Surveillance Station 7.0 and found it to have more than enough features for most users and was simple to install and use. This new beta release is designed to deliver optimized performance for environments with
SanDisk has announced its new CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SATA SSD for cloud service provider and software-defined storage vendor environments in capacities up to 1.6TB. Designed for mixed-use, latency-sensitive transactional workloads, including e-commerce and collaborative online services, the CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II boasts 32,000 4K write IOPS with 530MB/sec throughput. Additionally, SanDisk quotes their drive with
Today at the Special Interest Group on GRAPHics and Interactive Techniques (SIGGRAPH) conference in Los Angeles, California, Super Micro Computer Inc. showcased its new 1U 4x GPU SuperServer. This new SuperServer is designed to maximize performance and density while using PCIe to lower latency. In tune with the graphics theme of the event, Supermicro is
Symantec Corp today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement with an investor group led by the Carlyle Group to sell Veritas, Symantec’s information management business. Symantec and Veritas announced last October that they would be splitting into two independent companies. Symantec’s board of directors unanimously approved the transaction. The transaction is expected
Today U.S. Legal Support Inc., a leading provider of litigation services, announced that it switched its databases to a combination of ExaGrid disk-based backup systems and Veeam Backup and Replication to backup its VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual environments. ExaGrid states that U.S. Legal Support sees 84% faster backup times and can now store its 116TB of data
Today at HP Big Data Conference 2015 in Boston, HP announced several new products, services, and developer programs that are aimed at helping businesses leverage big data and big data analytics. HP is announcing a new release of Vertica, code named Excavator, support for open technologies, and a new Haven Startup Accelerator program. These new
Samsung has announced they have started mass production of their 256Gb 3D V-NAND flash memory, which is based on 48 layers of 3-bit MLC arrays for use in SSDs. This comes soon after SanDisk’s similar announcement back on August 3rd of last week.
Toshiba has announced three distinct families of PCIe SSDs products, the BG1, XG3, and PX04P series of SSDs, all of which leverage the NVMe protocol. The new lines are targeted towards a variety of use cases and applications and are built to be optimized for high-performance and low latency all the while utilizing the PCIe
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