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Samsung EVO and PRO Plus Memory Cards Announced

Samsung has announced the latest additions to their memory cards portfolio, the PRO Plus and EVO Plus lines. The new PRO Plus is designed to handle storing and transferring professional-grade photos and 4K UHD video content created from high-end DSLRs, smartphones, tablets and modern action cameras, while the EVO Plus memory cards are built for

Enterprise

EMC Announces Project CoprHD, an Open Source Version of ViPR Controller

EMC announced the company’s plans to release an open source into the community named Project CoprHD. Based on the ViPR Controller, Project CoprHD is EMC’s first open-source project based on one of its commercial software products. The project will make the code for ViPR Controller (the storage automation and control functionality) open for community-driven development on GitHub

Enterprise  ◇  Enterprise Storage

EMC Expands VSPEX Portfolio With VMAX 100K

Today at EMC world, EMC Corporation announced that it was expanding its VSPEX Portfolio With EMC VMAX 100K, which they claim is the industry’s leading enterprise data services platform. EMC had announced other updates to VMAX3 earlier this week.

Enterprise  ◇  Software

Pivotal Makes Major Updates To Big Data Suite

Today Pivotal Software Inc. announced major updates to its Pivotal Big Data Suite. The new updates include upgrades to Pivotal HD Apache Hadoop distribution and Pivotal is claiming up to a 100 times performance improvement for its analytics solutions, including Pivotal Greenplum Database. The new upgrades are aimed at helping customers manage ballooning data sets

Atlantis Launches All-Flash Hyper-Converged Appliance At 90% Lower Cost

Atlantis Computing announced today that it has launched the first turn-key hyper-converged appliance to deliver all-flash performance, Atlantis HyperScale. Atlantis also claims that its appliance will deliver this performance at 50-90% lower cost than other hyper-converged appliances.

Enterprise

Intel Announces Availability of the Intel SSD Data Center S3510 Series

Intel has announced the availability of the Intel SSD Data Center S3510 Series, expanding on their storage offerings in the Intel SSD Data Center Family as well as to meet the demands for high-performance, high-capacity data stores in the data center. The Intel SSD DC S3510 Series is built to provide cost and power advantages over

Consumer

HP mt245 Mobile Thin Client Announced

HP has announced the mt245 Mobile Thin Client, designed for easy and flexible cloud computing on-the-go. This new mobile thin client provides users with a pro-class user feature-set as well as critical management software; all at an affordable price.

HGST Announces Ultrastar SAS SSDs Are Now Rated For 2.5 MTBF

HGST, a Western Digital company, has hit a few milestones recently with their enterprise drives. They ship the largest capacity non-SMR drive, the Ultrastar He8 8TB. Of their helium drives, they have deployed over a million so far. Recently their Ultrastar Helium HDDs achieved a field reliability of 2.5 million hours mean time between failures (MTBF), and on

Enterprise  ◇  Server

SuperMicro Releases Ultra Dense 6U MicroBlade Solutions

Super Micro Computer Inc. released a new extreme-density sever platform, MicroBlade. These new solutions are aimed at hyper-scale data center, cloud, web hosting environments and video streaming, VDI, high performance video/graphics applications. SuperMicro’s MicroBlade also enables VLP DDR4 16/32GB RDIMM, at the cost of regular DIMM, to increase energy efficiency and cooling. SuperMicro claims that