Today at the International Supercomputing Conference, Intel announced new details for its next-generation Intel Xeon Phi Processors, coded-named Knights Landing, which includes a new high-speed fabric, Intel Omni Scale fabric. The fabric will be integrated in the next-generation processors to address performance, scalability, reliability, power, and density requirements to accelerate the rate of scientific discovery.
Mellanox today announced its forthcoming Switch-IB, slated to be the first 100Gb/s InfiniBand interconnect solution available on the market. The Switch-IB represents the 7th generation of Mellanox’s InfiniBand offerings and will incorporate 36 ports rated at 100Gb/s each for a total 7.2Tb/s of rated throughput. It incorporates 144 SerDes modules that operate between 1Gb/s and
The title isn't meant to be incendiary, though it may come of as such. It's simply meant to communicate the point that the benefits of flash in the data center are so proven that if you're not taking advantage of flash in some capacity there are two main reasons why. Either one, you're afraid, or two, your
IBM and Pure Storage have announced that Pure Storage has acquired over 100 storage and related technology patents from IBM. Both companies have signed a patent cross-license agreements without disclosing financial terms.
QNAP Systems has announced the release of their IS-400 Pro Turbo NAS, an all-in-one industrial, 2.5” SSD/HDD compatible four-bay NAS designed for reliable operation. Built with a rugged fanless design, the new Turbo NAS is built specifically for factories, warehouses, vehicles, shop floors, and other non-office settings looking for a reliable NAS and surveillance solution with
DreamWorks Animation and HP have collaborated for over a decade on various animated movies. The release of How To Train Your Dragon 2 is the culmination of years of technical innovation. The movie was the most ambitious work from DreamWorks so far consisting of 700 million digital files that utilized for than 400 terabytes of
Today, Amazon.com Inc. launched enhancements to their Elastic Block Storage (EBS) by backing the service with General Purpose (SSD) volume type as their default storage offering. EBS allows Amazon Web Service (AWS) users to create block storage that range in size from 1GB to 1TB. AWS can attach the volumes to Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), create
NetApp has announced two new storage system platforms to their portfolio: the performance-heavy FAS8080 EX and the entry value-focused FAS2500. The FAS8080 EX is designed for growing organizations and service providers looking for solutions that can handle performance-intensive SAN and NAS workloads at a very large scale, while the new entry-level FAS2500 hybrid arrays are built
Synology America announced today the launch of Surveillance Station 6.3, the latest version of its awarding winning NVR solution. Surveillance Station was designed to turn any Disk or RackStation into a network video recorder. Surveillance Station 6.3 comes with support for edge recording as well as removing the Java requirement for Mac users.
Synology has announced the RackStation RS3614xs, the latest model in its rackmount XS series. The new XS uses Synology’s DiskStation Manager OS (DSM 5.0), providing enterprise storage features for small- to medium-sized businesses at an affordable price point. An extra 24 bays can be added with two RX1214(RP) expansion chassis for a total of 36-bays and
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